US Extruders partners with Colin Sutherland, Poba Medical and Compounding Solutions on turnkey balloon tubing extrusion and ...

South Korean designer Jeonghwa Seo has used purpose-cast aluminium tubes to create a collection of tables and benches, with their structure obscured behind frosted acrylic. Each of the eight ...

We like that it comes with the jaws required for crimping ⅜-, ½-, ¾-, and 1-inch pipe, plus a PEX cutter, a go/no-go gauge, and a hard plastic case to carry it all. That’s a lot! For a heavy ...

Recognition Our 2024 Rising Stars report, written by Special Projects Editor Jordan Vitick, features 35 of the brightest ...

SOME CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS ARE PUSHING TO COMPLETELY BAN PLASTIC BAGS AT GROCERY STORES ... washable materials to be sold at the point of sale. "We need to change the dynamic in our retail ...

A lawsuit claims the newsletter OPIS and 10 extruders colluded to exploit pandemic, raise prices 500 percent since late 2019.

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

Recycled content in food packaging is increasing as sustainability advocates press manufacturers to cut their use of virgin plastic. Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...