Category: Innovations

How to Keep Polystyrene Foam Out of Landfills

Expanded polystyrene foam and extruded polystyrene also called styrofoam, offer a wide variety of benefits — it's lightweight, inexpensive, and offer tremendous impact resistance. Thus, it's ideal for food packaging,...

The Downside of Eliminating Plastic Food Packaging

While there is a significant increase in pushback related to using single-use plastics due to their environmental impact, there are circumstances when eliminating them can do more harm than good....

How Plastics Are Changing Electric Vehicles

While electric cars were slow sellers for their first few years on the market, a dramatic shift happened in 2020, which saw a 43 percent increase in available stock over...

Is Sugar the Key to Sustainable Plastics?

Due to growing concerns of plastic waste in landfills and waterways, researchers are looking at sustainable alternatives for plastic materials as well as ways to repurpose plastic waste. We've explored...

The Importance of Thermoplastics in Telecommunications

Telecommunications is an essential part of our society, from the micro-level of sending emails for work to global-scale radio communications. Thus, our telecommunications infrastructure needs to be built from components...

Using Plastic to Solve Global Housing Shortages

There are two major global crises happening concurrently. The first is a housing shortage; supply chain problems, population growth, and shifts in where people live have led to skyrocketing housing...

Recent Medical Breakthroughs Using Plastics

So often in medical innovation, brilliant ideas are put on hold due to the inability to find the right materials to transform an idea into its physical form. Fortunately, plastics...

Common Thermoplastics Used in Telecommunications

When most people think of telecommunications, they think of long lines of code or bundles of wires. While all that is definitely important, we know it’s the hardware that makes...

The History of Plastics Part II: 1935 through 1980.

In our first part of The History of Plastics, we shared the development of the first man made polymers as well as the introduction of some modern-day plastics and how...

The History of Plastics Part I: 1856 through 1935

Our injection molding company spends a lot of time thinking about the future of plastics and what kind of innovations are on the horizon. However, we wanted to take an...