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...

Pretium adds new 2-L PET bottle with integrated handle

A new 2-Liter SureHandle bottle with an integrated handle was announced during The Packaging Conference this week in Orlando by Pretium Packaging (Chesterfield, MO)....

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...

What’s next for additive manufacturing?

https://soundcloud.com/design-world/whats-next-for-additive-manufacturing Gordon Styles, president, and CEO of Star Rapid, a service provider in China takes a look at some of the changes he sees coming...

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...

3-D PRINTING BREAKTHROUGH HELP SUBMARINES DIVE DEEPER

BROOKLYN, New York – A team of materials scientists at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has developed the first process to 3D print components...