Formaldehyde Making Plant

Abstract

Formaldehyde is the unique first member of a series of aliphatic aldehydes. And formaldehyde became an outstanding industrial product because of its high reactivity, colorlessness, stability, purity in commercial forms and low cost. A practical method of manufacturing formaldehyde was developed by Loew in 1886 and thereafter, a number of production were initiated in many countries but this production was on a limited scale before the commercial production of phenolic resin in 1910.