TESTEX has launched the TESTEX MICROPLASTIC label, setting a new standard for reducing textile microplastic emissions. Using advanced LDIR technology, the label certifies textiles tested for particle emissions per ISO standards. As a member of The Microfibre Consortium, TESTEX collaborates on reducing fibre fragmentation, sharing data to support sustainability goals by 2030.

[Opinion column written by OBA candidate Malachi Symonds] We live in a world where, at times, convenience comes with a high cost. Single-use plastics have emerged as a major contributor to both environmental degradation and public health crises. A recent study revealed that plastics were responsible for producing 5.3% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 […]

A Penn State University study published in Environmental Science & Technology: Air reveals that airborne microplastics may influence the climate by affecting cloud structures and weather patterns. The study found that microplastics act as ice nucleating agents in clouds, potentially altering precipitation. Professor Miriam Freedman highlights the need for more research into how these particles interact within atmospheric systems to better understand their effects on climate.

Inline Plastics has expanded its Safe-T-Fresh® portfolio to include three new 7-inch rounds with a smooth wall. By popular demand, the new products will include 24oz, 32oz, and a four 6oz compartment option, with more items to follow soon.

From N-95 masks that are protecting health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic to food packaging found in every aisle of the grocery store, plastics play an essential role in our lives.

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An innovative nonsurgical device, PoNS delivers electrical stimulation to the surface of the tongue to provide treatment of balance and gait deficits

Minnesota-based medical device start-ups receive design and additive manufacturing services

Performance Plastics is pleased to announce the promotion of Lear Jackson to Quality Manager.

Minnesota-based medical device start-up receives design and additive manufacturing services

Certification is part of the company's growth initiative to meet the increased demand for medical device contract manufacturing.

DPI's technical representatives and experienced team of engineers work closely with customers, assisting them with design for manufacturing and other value-added services.

The acquired facility and equipment greatly expand production capacity

Highlights of Position Include Advocacy and Government Relations

US laboratory products manufacturer partners with PolyCarbin to advance circularity in laboratory disposables market.

Adsale Plastics Network's platform is a great place to look for plastic-related news and articles. The site offers valuable resources to its members, including manufacturers, professionals, and stakeholders.

TESTEX has launched the TESTEX MICROPLASTIC label, setting a new standard for reducing textile microplastic emissions. Using advanced LDIR technology, the label certifies textiles tested for particle emissions per ISO standards. As a member of The Microfibre Consortium, TESTEX collaborates on reducing fibre fragmentation, sharing data to support sustainability goals by 2030.

This infographic shares the depressing small amount of plastic that gets recycled. Information is Beautiful created The Problem with Plastics infographic by visualizing data by Geyer et al, Science Advances, back in 2017. The infographic uses a Sankey Diagram to show the fate of all plastics that were ever made.

Why plastic recycling doesn’t work ????

“Most ‘recycled’ plastic still ends up being dumped or incinerated”

n.b. These numbers are from 2017. Humanity produces approx. 345 million tonnes of plastic a year. That means another ~1.7 billion tonnes since this study was released.

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Base salaries in the U.S. grew 0.7 percent from 2013 to $104,722 in calendar year 2014.

 In March 2015, the Alliance welcomed its newest member, the Asociación Nacional de Industrias del Plástico. 

Ray Products releases 2015 plastics manufacturing industry survey results.

Flexural strength testing has become increasingly important for plastics—especially composite and carbon fiber-reinforced plastics—as structural parts in the aerospace industry are made from these newer materials.

Regular tensile testing is important for checking rigid plastics through the entire manufacturing cycle, from the raw material to the forming process and ultimately the production part.

Pick up a material analysis data sheet and you’ll always find tensile testing, and probably flexural testing as well. But depending on the application, don’t hold your breath looking for compressive testing.

The importance of plastics was on full display in Orlando this week.

Carbon fiber reinforced plastics, or CFRPs, are found throughout the aerospace and automotive industries, as well as in high-performance sporting goods, due to their light-weight, high-strength properties.

The guidance is aimed at ensuring recycled plastic packaging meets and exceeds U.S. regulatory compliance.

Comprehensive playbooks on recyclability, reuse and compostability offer roadmap for sustainable plastic management.

The update emphasizes collaboration among cross-functional stakeholders—such as procurement, R&D, and corporate sustainability—who often have competing priorities like sustainability commitments and cost control. 

Centre aims to help achieve global plastics sustainability goals by focusing on R&D collaboration and value chain-integrated solutions.

Designed with Inline Plastics’ Safe-T-Fresh® technology, each package features tamper evident and tamper resistant seals to keep all food safe and secure.

Packaging and consumer goods companies are accelerating their efforts to adopt new innovative materials and processes to replace plastic in product packaging to help meet their plastic reduction goals

WVU researchers develop microwave technology that could extend the life cycle of plastics  WBOY.com

A new study identified the tiny pollutants in the olfactory bulbs of eight cadavers, suggesting microplastics can travel through the nose to the brain

Each of the 11 dolphins sampled exhaled at least one suspected particle of microplastic, which researchers say “highlights how extensive environmental microplastic pollution is”

Extends Traditional SolidWorks Ease-of-Use to Help Designers Optimize Plastics Part and Injection Mold Designs

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global plastic production since the 1950s, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers.

Scientists have spotted microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters, in some of the most pristine environments on Earth, from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the snow on Mt. Everest to the mountaintop clouds of China and Japan. Microplastics have been detected in human brains, the bellies of sea turtles and the roots of plants. Now, new research led by Penn State scientists reveals that microplastics in the atmosphere could be affecting weather and climate.

Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico have tiny bits of plastic in their breath, and this is probably a worldwide problem

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A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But very few have revealed whether these tiny bits of plastic impact our health

It turns out microplastics have an effect on the weather and climate.

Robert Musselle, customer engineering manager EMEA at Protolabs shares what you need to consider with 3D printing and plastics prototyping.

Ampacet has introduced ProVital+ Gamma-Protect, a medical-grade additive designed to preserve mechanical and optical properties of polypropylene-based medical and pharmaceutical articles during gamma and e-beam sterilisation processes.

Link between nanoplastic pollution and antibiotic resistance has been identified. The research, published in iScientific Reports,/i shows that bnanoplastic

Reducing medlinkplastic pollution/medlink by 5% annually could potentially stabilize the presence of microplastics-pieces smaller than 5 mm-in ocean surface waters (!--ref1--).

Micro-and nano plastics are everywhere in the air, water, food and even inside the human body. However, the risks they pose to the environment or to human health are unclear.