by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 11, 2019 | All Processes, All Regions, Daily News, Plastics Training/Education
daily.jstor.org — From disposable straws to lifesaving medical devices, plastics comprise the best and worst of technologically-driven economic advances. Cultural and design historian Jeffrey L. Meikle writes that from the start, it’s been clear that there’s something...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | Business, Daily News, North America, Plastics Training/Education
Plastics Industry Association — The Plastics Academy has opened the floor for posthumous nominations to the Plastics Hall of Fame. Nominations for the 2020 posthumous class will close on Oct. 31. The Plastics Academy inducts living members to the hall during NPE years...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 28, 2019 | Business, Daily News, North America, Plastics Training/Education
Undark.org — In the closing months of World War II, Americans talked nonstop about how and when the war would end, and about how life was about to change. Germany would fall soon, people agreed on that. Opinions varied on how much longer the war in the Pacific would...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 5, 2018 | Business, Consumer, Daily News, Global, Plastics Training/Education
Although plastic is a big problem in the ocean, museum conservators are rushing to save spacesuits, animation cels, and other pieces of history. Mowgli of Disney’s The Jungle Book and Duchess from The Aristocats are frozen in single frames before Tom Learner’s...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 30, 2018 | Business, Daily News, North America, Plastics Training/Education
Plastics make cars safer, keep food fresh longer, replace limbs and even enable people to hear. A new initiative from the Plastics Industry Association highlights these and other innovations—aiming to change the conversation around plastics. The Plastics Industry...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 18, 2018 | Composites, Daily News, Plastics Training/Education, Thermoset
Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP), also known as fiber-reinforced polymers, are a category of composite plastics specifically using fiber materials to mechanically augment the elasticity and strength of the plastic. They consist of a polymer matrix – the original...
