New Frontiers for Recyclable Polymers
Flinders University — Many modern plastics, rubbers and ceramics cannot be recycled, but new polymers made from waste sulfur are promising to solve one of the planet’s biggest recycling problems – and even create new industries of the future. Researchers around the...Krauss-Maffei Corp. president Paul Caprio stepping down
Canplastics.com — Paul Caprio, president of processing machinery maker Krauss-Maffei Corp., is leaving the company effective June 7. Caprio has been with the Florence, Ky.-based company for the past 25 years, and has served as president since May 2009. In a June 5...Prodways Begins Work on Autonomous Dental 3D Printing
France — Since it was acquired by Groupe Gorgé in 2013, Prodways has been growing and transforming at a rapid pace, developing new 3D printers and materials while acquiring numerous smaller companies and expanding its product portfolio. All the while, some have been...KraussMaffei breaks ground on new Chinese plant
HAIYAN, China — German machinery manufacturer KraussMaffei Group has started construction of a new production plant at its existing location in Haiyan. The new intelligent manufacturing unit will cover an area of 1.3 million square feet and is expected to double the...Book Review: “Peak Plastic” by Jack Buffington
By Peter Murphy — March 23rd, 2019 — “Plastics… There’s a great future in plastics.” So said “Mr. McGuire” to Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben Braddock, in The Graduate. Indeed, Mr. McGuire was prescient. In more than half a century since he gave his succinct advice,...