Nominations for Posthumous Hall of Fame Inductees Now Open
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...The Dawn of the Age of Plastics – 1939
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...The Race to Save Historic Plastic Artifacts
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...Let’s Talk About Innovation
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...FYI: Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP)
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...