Along with many firsts brought to us by Covid-19, one is a seemingly reversal of thinking about plastic of all kinds. Starbucks, after promising the public it would reduce plastic use, announced recently that it would not refill customer cups but...
Micro Injection Molding is a specialty of Microdyne Plastics. Plastic Injection molded products include a huge array of items in every home, office and automobile. Blow molding is used for most plastic bottles, but most other plastic items are...
New scientific testing has shown that PET and HDPE which comprise 97 percent of all plastic bottles on the North American Bottle market can be recycled and reused for new bottles at least ten times. The first set of practical tests was carried...
Advantages of sourcing plastic parts and products from closer manufacturers may help close the price gap and broaden the reasons for spending closer to the assembly location. China’s historical advantage of low labor costs is shrinking as...
The California Inland Empire is a perfect place for plastic molded products. This is because the Inland Empire has the lowest cost for land and buildings in Southern California, and it is located in the center of the transportation hub for...
LEGO® In the News The Danish toy maker is working toward using corn and wheat as an alternative to petroleum-based plastic. As more companies work on developing plastic from proteins of renewable sources rather than petroleum, some plastic users...
If you ask a friend what they think of their laptop (encased in plastic with lots of internal plastic components), you will likely get a thumbs-up. Ask them about the plastic bag they carried it out of the store in, and they would give you...
This year marks the fifth annual Manufacturing DaySM when thousands of manufacturers will promote manufacturing as a whole. Thousands of manufacturers will open their doors to students, parents, teachers and other job seekers to promote the new...
“The Future is ‘Plastics’” was uttered nearly 50 years ago now in the watershed movie. The Graduate. While its various story complexities have been explored over the years, people still talk about the duality of the meaning, then . . . and now...
