A multinational research team, including engineers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University, has developed a ...

Microplastics research faces standardization challenges as viral headlines about "plastic in your brain" overshadow ...

Per-share prices of plastics materials firms have underperformed the broader U.S. stock market so far in 2025, weighed down ...

As throughput rates continue to rise, so do the demands on traditional materials, equipment designers and maintenance ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Australian student Maisy Whitehead, now attending the University of York in the U.K., has created a new biopolymer from ...

Major companies in the plastic materials and resins market include Dow Inc, Sinopec Limited, LyondellBasell Industries Holdings BV, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, BASF SE, INEOS AG ...

The first plastic material was developed by the Belgian-born American chemist Leo Baekeland with the invention of Bakelite. It was the first fully synthetic, plastic material. Durable, heat-resistant, ...

Could this new material replace plastic? Special | 5m 31s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Plantswitch, an NC startup company, has created a plant-based, bioplastic resin to replace plastic.

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Miller and Moran, who help run the architectural practice T+E+A+M, saw both a material and an aesthetic opportunity in this recycled plastic building material.“We had this idea that waste ...

Corrugated plastic material being 4 mm thick instead of 3 mm means it is not necessarily a drop-in replacement for acrylic in existing designs. But not every enclosure is constrained by panel ...