Here Peter Swanson, Founder and Executive Chair of adhesives specialist Intertronics, weighs up mechanical bonding vs adhesive bonding, and gives some advice for designing in an adhesive.
Macpac has recently completed a new project with Martin’s Chocolatier. Its in-house design team has created a snow globe-type pack that could be used as a traditional glass snow globe while preserving its contents.
The winners of the BPF Horners Awards for Plastics Innovation and Design, the Bottlemakers Award and the David Williams Award were presented with their trophies at the Horners Annual Banquet on 3 October 2024.
Editor Rebekah Jordan attended the Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) Awards hosted at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) in London and caught up with the six finalists.
Editor Rebekah Jordan spoke with Smile Plastics to learn of the company's mission to divert thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from landfills and hopes to change people's perception of recycled plastics.
What it takes to successfully combine functionality and aesthetics, and why most failed product launches can be avoided with an up-front approach. Chris Newman, Regional Technical Manager, ALBIS UK writes.
The 2022 Design Innovation in Plastics winner, Zara King, has paid a visit to the UK
headquarters of Covestro, which is the headline industry sponsor of the award.
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.
