by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Part Design
2018 will forever be remembered as the year that hating plastic straws went mainstream. Once the lonely cause of environmental cranks, now everyone wants to eliminate these suckers from daily life. In July, Seattle imposed America’s first ban on plastic straws....
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mfg On Demand, North America, Part Design
Xometry Inc., an online marketplace for custom-manufactured parts, has acquired rival firm MakeTime Inc. and raised $25 million to fuel future expansion. The deal creates what Xometry says is the industry’s largest distributed on-demand manufacturing network, with...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 5, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Europe, Part Design
Philippe Decelle really loves plastics. This is no idle love. The Belgian artist and collector has spent 30 years collecting thousands of plastic items for posterity, from furniture to fashion to art to common utensils. He understands plastics — their history, their...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 29, 2018 | Daily News, North America, Part Design, Profile, Prototyping
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Xometry, the largest on-demand manufacturing platform, today released a new version of its Xometry Instant Quoting Engine℠. Key features include a redesigned summary view to help users quickly review their quotes,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 26, 2018 | Africa, Daily News, Environmental, Part Design
There is a certain easiness to life that Lamu people have around them. There is a calmness to their gait and speech. Life for them seems effortless, and Ali Skanda is not an exception to this rule. He would pass as the poster boy for life in Lamu complete with a boat...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 8, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, North America, Part Design
Kingsport, Tenn., USA — May 1, 2018 — Launching a new toy company into the highly competitive global toy market presented Kando Concepts Ltd with a challenge — and an opportunity to take a fresh approach to toy manufacturing. Focusing on original, high quality designs...
