PLM streamlines prosthetic design, redesign
BionX Medical Technologies meets time-to-market, compliance, and efficiency goals for the prosthesis. The emPOWER Ankle is a complex active prosthetic foot and ankle solution...
3D Printing in Space – The Final Frontier
While down here there’s room for debate about the suitability of 3D printing for anything more serious than rapid prototyping, few would say the...
MIT engineers design super fast desktop 3D printer
The team did away with the traditional nozzle design, which uses a "pinch-wheel" mechanism to feed through the plastic, replacing it with a screw...
Long Fiber Polypropylene Compounds Drive Innovation in Automotive
Lengthy fiber polycarbonate polypropylene (LFT PP) is currently commonly utilized in vehicle front-end service providers, instrument-panel service providers, door panels, gaming consoles, pedals, under-body...
From greenhouse gases to plastics: New catalyst for recycling carbon dioxide...
Imagine if we could take CO2, that most notorious of greenhouse gases, and convert it into something useful. Something like plastic, for example. The...
Plastic Fasteners Market – Opportunities in Key Application Sectors by 2025
Plastic fasteners are plastic parts used to join or fix two or more objects together. Plastic screws, bolts, nuts, washers, threaded rods, and balls...
Choosing the Right Marine Sealant
Leakages aboard are a migraine, figuratively, certainly. Picking in between myriad sealers and also caulks at the boating equipment shop may trigger an actual...
Looking Ahead Through Plexiglas – Rohm & Hass 1947
"1947 Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs." The first 19 minutes or so are in black & white,...
This enormous 3D printer is designed for a huge job: printing...
Development of this huge additive manufacturing system goes back to September 2017, when CEAD began collecting market input and looking for a launch customer...
Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling
LONDON — Ever since China announced last year that it no longer wanted to be the “world’s garbage dump,” recycling about half of the...