Top 5 Smart Recycling Efforts
When we humans put our minds to it, it seems that the sky is the limit for our imagination. Some enterprising people recently dreamed...
IDTechEx Explores Nine Startups Innovating Polymer Additive Manufacturing
Essential to understanding the evolution of the polymer 3D printing industry is exploring the change from low-cost printing technologies and materials to the slow...
Resolutions for Workforce Development in 2023
Another year, another fresh start to develop the workforce and implement new technologies. The best workforce to develop is the workforce that is already...
Top 5 Plastics Business Articles of 2022
While work on the first issue of 2023 is well underway, we paused to see which Plastics Business articles from 2022 caught the eyes...
NIST Awards Funding to Study Plastic Waste Reduction
The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, has awarded $500,000 to each of five universities to develop...
Top 5 Reasons to Try Reverse Mentoring
There is a hot new trend in mentoring gaining steam across a spectrum of industries, from advertising to engineering to manufacturing. Reverse mentoring is...
Top 5 Renewable Energy Sources
Energy independence is on the minds of many US manufacturers, not to mention politicians, the energy sector, auto owners and homeowners. Electric vehicles are...
Top 5 Things to Know about Manufacturing.gov
Manufacturing.gov is a national manufacturing portal, a gateway to the wide and deep array of federal government initiatives, programs and resources that exist to...
10 Tips to Help Prevent Dust Explosions, Reduce Hazardous Risks
As National Safety Month concludes at the end of June, Stamford, Connecticut-based Goodway Technologies reminds facility managers of the importance of understanding explosion and...
Scientists Make Plastic More Degradable Under UV Light
University of Bath
Many plastics that are labeled as biodegradable are only compostable under industrial conditions, but scientists at the University of Bath have found...
