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Preservation of Plastics German Democratic Plastics in Design: A Research Project on Material, Technology, and Conservation Fernsehgerät FS Alex, 1957. Horst Giehse, Jürgen Peters, designers. VEB Stern Radio Berlin, producer. Photo: ©Die Neue Sammlung–The Design Museum, A. Laurenzo. The preservation of plastic objects poses a difficult challenge for conservators. Research into conservation of plastic objects, which only emerged in the 1990s, has been primarily focused on the identification of plastics, their degradation, and possible conservation and restoration methods. The extent to which industrial production processes and manufacturing technologies influence both the long-term properties of plastics and their aging has hardly been considered.

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