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.
2024 has seen high activity and success from Distrupol, with the announcement of a European expansion, recruitment drive, and supplier/portfolio expansion.
In July, Malvern-based Talisman Plastics merged with the Merriott Group in order to offer enhanced manufacturing and service options to customers throughout the Midlands, South East and South West.
The SKZ Plastics Center and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) are using several non-destructive testing methods to advance the quality assurance of sealing compounds.
Kevin Brownsill, head of Technical: Learning and Development at adhesives specialist Intertronics, discusses the use of plasma surface treatment for printing onto low surface energy plastics.
A year on from the first load of waste plastic entering the depot, CEO Sky Li reflects on the challenges Clearfield Envirotech were faced with when striving for excellence within the recycled plastic industry.
Editor Rebekah Jordan spoke to Dr. Stephen Heinz, head of research and innovation for composites and adhesive at Syensqo, discussing its innovative approach to aerospace adhesives and its holistic approach to sustainability.
James Kennedy, technology analyst at IDTechEx, explores dissolution and the entire advanced plastic recycling market in the report: Chemical Recycling and Dissolution of Plastics 2024-2034: Technologies, Players, Markets, Forecasts.
Renata Smataviciene, quality director of RETAL, explores challenges of defining "quality" in manufacturing and how a plastic packaging company achieves consistent quality across vast production lines.
NanoVoxel has successfully reduced the fabrication timeline of high precision micro-parts to two weeks with Micropower 15t micro injection moulding machine from WITTMANN BATTENFELD.
BP&R’s Mandy O’Brien speaks to Glyn Olden, MD of Chess Plastics, discussing the company's expansion into different markets as well as the current pain points of the plastics manufacturing industry.
DI Dr. Friedrich Kastner, CEO & managing partner COLLIN Lab & Pilot Solutions GmbH, highlights how its new film inspection system allows for easier integration and powerful post-processing for optimising quality control with variable film properties.
