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 ...

Plastic deformation and joining processes have emerged as innovative solutions for connecting tubes in a variety of industrial applications. These methods utilise controlled plastic strain, rather ...

Fort Worth, Texas — Greg McCunn, a veteran John Deere composites and materials engineer, walked an audience of thermoformers through the advance of plastic body panels that have given a sleek look to ...

Dublin, March 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Thermoforming Plastic Market by Product (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, Biodegradable Polymers, Polyethylene), Material Type (Aluminum, Paper & ...

While millions of tons of plastic are produced in the US each year, only around 9 percent is recycled, and that is largely due to the difficulties around reducing the material to useful building ...

Only a small percentage of plastic bags and other polyethylene packaging is recycled because only low-value products can be made from this waste. Chemists have created a catalytic process that ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

A Mexico-based tech company says it can recycle more than 90 percent of any type of plastic without using water. The new method also reduces costs by half without suffering any loss in quality, ...