Nigel Flowers, UK MD of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag examines whether 3DP will ever cross over into mainstream manufacturing and cautions against getting overly caught up in the hype and believing that this technique will be the demise of injection moulding
Based in the Falkirk office, Alicia is the second apprentice Viridis has taken on from Forth Valley College, with Cameron Graham joining the growing team in 2019.
Willemijn Peeters, CEO of Searious Business, has written an article on her 5 year journey from single person start-up to thriving business, working with big brands towards circular plastic use.
With this year’s deadline for submission of entries fast approaching, one of the DIP judges, Dr Robin Kent, the managing director of Tangram Technology, provides us with some pearls of wisdom on what he looks for in a good entry.
Olivia Alexander, who came third in the Design Innovation in Plastics competition in 2018, has found a great job in the design industry and believes that her success made her application stand out when she applied for jobs.
A-MVB Security Seals, or Antimicrobial Viricide Material Infused Security Seals, are tamper-evident seals infused with a proprietary blend of additives that include an ionic-silver-based formula.
As the market enters 2021 it is poised to rebound to 3.84 million tonnes for the year. Smithers’ latest expert study The Future of Thermoplastic Elastomers To 2026 shows global demand will not return to pre-pandemic levels before 2024.
In this guest blog, Professor Edward Kosior, founder of sustainability experts, Nextek, reminds us that a genuine circular economy relies on simplifying our packaging and therefore our recycling streams, not adding to them with new complex categories
Women in 3D Printing Next Gen have announced its second ‘Meet the Stars of 3D Printing: Aerospace Edition’, which will feature an all-female panel of speakers from Airbus, NASA, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.
RECOUP, are well respected across the plastics recycling value chain, and in an industry, which is traditionally male dominated, the organisation has bucked the trend and employs a predominately female workforce.
It is perhaps no accident to find that nearly half of the company’s management board are women: The Linear Plastics business culture is distinctly familial, communicating responsibility and accountability in everything it does.
