June 10, 1952: Marketing Mylar With a Film About a Film
1952: DuPont registers Mylar as the trademark for its new, strong polyester film. Mylar’s versatility gives it a long, worldwide run as an industrial coating.
DuPont developed Mylar, or biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate, along with the polyester fabric Dacron in the early ’50s. Mylar’s resistance to tearing and stretching, to heat and cold, to moisture and odors, and to electricity and chemicals made it a favorite for manufacturers of all sorts of goods.
Notable because Mylar drum heads have been around since the late 1950’s.