Different products have unique requirements depending on their design and specifications. One such consideration is the casing or packaging requirements of the item.
In this edition of his regular column, our resident materials expert, Mike Boswell, looks at how polymer prices might evolve over the next six months. He also reflects on what has happened to polymer prices since the beginning of 2020.
As with most disruptions, the pandemic has amplified the focus on productivity and forced injection moulding decision makers to reconsider how automation and digitalised technologies can facilitate working smarter.
Listgrove, an international recruitment and HR business, has continued to expand international operations to support an extensive client and candidate network in diverse market sectors, despite a global pandemic and
Here Duncan Clark, head of operations at biopolymer research company Teysha Technologies, explains how automakers can overcome this problem by switching to tuneable bioplastics.
In this article Nigel Flowers, MD Sumitomo (SHI) Demag UK, explores the various safety certifications such as the CE mark, CA mark and UKNI and thanks to Brexit, what the various changes mean for those in the industry.
At the British Plastics Federation’s (BPF) second virtual annual general meeting, Karen Drinkwater, a founding director of JSC Rotational Limited, was elected as the trade association’s president on 19 May 2021.
James Mountain, Sales and Marketing Director, Fire Shield Systems, discusses the risks associated with rubber and plastics, business owner responsibilities when it comes to protection and what that protection may include.
This article by Stäubli’s Simon Jenkins discusses the current status of connected robotic manufacturing and how digitalisation has linked the warehouse, manufacturing and dispatch using autonomous technologies and robotics.
