by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 15, 2018 | Daily News, Global, Medical
Reece Armstrong looks at how medical manufacturing has reacted to Industry 4.0 and where the sector sees robots and automation having the most impact. The factory of the future is a term that has been thrown around for a number of years now but what does it mean? We...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 15, 2018 | Additives & Modifiers, Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America
A new method for making food packaging more “slippery” could help cut food and plastic waste, researchers say. According to a study in Scientific Reports (via New Food Magazine), a technique that involves wicking chemically compatible vegetable oils into the surface...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 15, 2018 | Daily News, North America, Polymer Science
The future is indeed plastics. Duke chemistry professor Stephen Craig has been named the leader of a $1.8 million, three-year center funded by the National Science Foundation to take polymer chemistry into a new age of precision. The Center for the Chemistry of...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Additive Mfg, Additive Mfg, Business, Daily News, Global
Increasing industrialization efforts across various plastic printing technologies will result in $16 billion in industry revenues from the sale of printers and polymer-based print materials by 2027, according to a study published by SmarTech Publishing (Crozet, VA)....
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
China released a proposal to expand its scrap import ban beyond plastics and the other materials that are currently restricted. A new plan would ban every form of “solid waste” from import. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment on July 11 posted a draft document...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Blow Molding, Business, Consumer, Daily News, North America
The chances are good that someone very close to you left the state … a brother or sister, a son or daughter. Over the past 40 years, Western New York has lost 214,000 people. The City of Niagara Falls alone saw its population drop from just over 100,000 down to 48,000...
