What does design thinking plastics for a future of sustainability mean? In Design Thinking Plastics Part 1, Tony Chambers, Founder of TC & Friends and former editor-in-chief of Wallpaper, delves into ...

Mac Chen and Ed Gadasu had the same considerations when it came to their senior design project: they wanted something to round out their studies of the materials field and something that felt ...

Sustainability and the COVID-19 pandemic both are playing roles in application development for plastic products. Global packaging firm Greif Inc. is using more post-consumer resin in its plastic ...

Very few plastics can be recycled without a loss in performance or aesthetics because of the various additives, like dyes, fillers or flame retardants, in them. However, a team of researchers at the U ...

Discussions by organizations promoting a circular, cradle-to-cradle, sustainable plastics economy often address packaging and single-use materials, not engineering plastics and polymers. That's ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) recently launched the new and improved APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability Digital Tool to commemorate its 30 th ...

Christopher Kenny, a third year product design undergraduate from Technological University Dublin, has won this year’s Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition. DIP, supported by the Institute ...

Can a “donut” help to untangle that rat’s nest of USB cables? Yes, it can, in the form of a plastic Donut-ella, the winner of the Pleiades – Plastic European Innovation Award for Design and ...

When Tide Rock Holdings acquired Plastic Molding Technology in January of this year, the transaction could be seen as the linchpin of a plastics manufacturing portfolio the private equity firm was ...