Category: Innovations

Emerging Trends in Plastic Manufacturing for 2023

Plastics are a versatile, highly customizable material used in almost every industry. Because the industries we serve are constantly evolving, the plastics used to make products are too. Think of...

Are Bioplastics Really Better for the Environment?

With environmental concerns on the rise, innovations in plastics tend to be focused on sustainable options. Bioplastic is often touted as being an earth-friendly material that offers the benefits of...

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...