Covestro plastic enables medical device innovation
ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the fastest-growing segments in the pharmaceutical industry is biologic drugs. Derived from a microorganism, or plant...
Solutions 4 Polymers and Blow It All team up for technical qualification
Apprenticeship training provider, Solutions 4 Polymers, and blow molding and training consultancy, Blow It All, have announced a new training qualification partnership. The two...
Envision Plastics launches first bottle using 100 percent OceanBound plastic
ATLANTA, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Envision Plastics is excited to announce the launch the world's first bottle using its proprietary OceanBound Plastic at 100% content and...
Super Wood That Could Replace Steel
It can make soft woods over 10 times as strong. Scientists at the University of Maryland have, through chemical treatments and crushed polymers, found...
Collective disentanglement of entangled polymers
Frey and Lang focused on the dynamics of semi-flexible to stiff polymers – the group to which biopolymers including DNA, or actin filaments and...
Macromolecular order in plastic kingdom
A team of researchers at the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MIPT and elsewhere has determined how the...
Covestro improves structures in cancer treatment vessel plastics
Wednesday - February 7, 2018 - When a cancer patient needs life-saving medical treatment, everything must work as designed, right down to the plastic...
Ford Files Patent for New Composite Cylinder Head
Last week, Ford filed a patent for a new type of composite cylinder head design that could reduce weight, slash manufacturing costs and save...
Flexible Medical Devices Were Inspired by Squid Ring Teeth
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Medical devices powered by synthetic proteins created from repeated sequences of proteins may be possible, according to materials science and...
Snowball in a Klear Can
The Klear Can—a see-through molded plastic can—was developed by Milacron (Cincinnati) as an alternative to metal cans for fruits, vegetables, soups, meats and related...