Plastic is abundant in business and everyday life. You find it as product components, packaging and even in the containers used to ship products. For businesses interested in manufacturing or ...

Unlike their mid-century ancestors, today's plastics are being reimagined through ultra-thin layering at the molecular level.

Research shows how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing plastics manufacturing through material development and process ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - With Army funding, scientists invented a way to make compostable plastics break down within a few weeks with just heat and water. This advance will potentially solve ...

3D Systems' Figure 4 135 The Figure 4 135 is a high-speed, high precision, scalable 3D printing solution designed to supplement or replace injection mold tooling in plastic manufacturing processes.

The story of manufacturing in this country is often told through steel, energy or technology. However, one industry that ...

Polypropylene, polyethylene, and PVC will account for the largest market share in medical plastics through 2030.

At an IBM lab in Silicon Valley, if you put a cotton-polyester blend T-shirt into an InstaPot-like pressure reactor, a new process will disassemble it into a ball of pure cotton and a white powder ...