Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

Plastics Process Engineering II introduces four of the five major plastics forming (manufacturing) processes: rotational molding, thermoforming, blow molding, and injection molding with emphasis on ...

Building custom parts often means learning new skills or getting out of your comfort zone, especially if you want to create something that is really cool. While most hot rodders can fabricate brackets ...

Plastic is abundant in business and everyday life. You find it as product components, packaging and even in the containers used to ship products. For businesses interested in manufacturing or ...

Surface Generation (Rutland, UK), a provider of advanced carbon-fiber processing technologies, announced that it is working with WMG at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) and AGC AeroComposites ...

Backers of a new approach that will combine plastic bottle forming and filling in a single step expect to have the first products using the new technology on store shelves within a year. The Liquiform ...

Material is built up layer by layer until the complete part is made. Some additive processes use a liquid material, others use material in a powder form. A variety of materials, both plastic, and ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

A switch to plastic may be one way of getting the leg up on the competition. No question a lot of metal parts have been converted to plastic over the past several years. But there are still many ...