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LAS VEGAS (Jan. 31, 3:25 p.m. ET) -- Designers continue to use materials, including plastics, in creative ways
as they pursue cost-effective, customer-grabbing appearances for personal computers. “Some non-plastics material is harder to work” and may involve complex and costly casting and curing processes. Notebook vendors will continue to use plastic in mid- and low-end products, one expert said.
January 31, 2012
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (Jan. 24, 9:45 a.m. ET) -- New England Boatworks Inc. brought autoclave processing in-house in January after regularly outsourcing the requirement. About 10 percent of its work requires use of an autoclave.
January 24, 2012
SANTA ANA, CALIF. (Jan. 20, 3 p.m. ET) -- The flow of Mega Bloks Halo figures onto U.S. soil will not be suppressed! Mega Brands Inc. announced Jan. 20 that it has withdrawn its federal court lawsuit against Lego Group, just one week after the suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana.
January 20, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 19, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- When the Smart car first appeared in the 1990s, it was intended to change the image of what a small car could be with its two seats and interchangeable thermoplastic body panels.
January 19, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 19, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- When Tata Technologies’ engineers and designers sat down to come up with a concept for an electric-powered car, they wanted to start with a clean sheet of paper.
January 19, 2012
SANTA ANA, CALIF. (Jan. 19, 11:45 a.m. ET) -- The Canadian maker of Mega Bloks has gone to federal court to stop the U.S. Customs and Border Protection from blocking the importation of its construction toys based on the popular Halo video game -- a complaint it says was lodged by Lego Group.
January 19, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 19, 11:35 a.m. ET) -- Woodbridge Group claims its ComfortSense seat cushioning has better initial softness, without the added expense of a secondary topper pad.
January 19, 2012
LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY (Jan. 19, 11:35 a.m. ET) -- BASF SE and Royal Philips Electronics say they have achieved a breakthrough in the development of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology that allows it to be integrated in car roofs.
January 19, 2012
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Jan. 17, 3 p.m. ET) -- Century Mold Co. Inc. is expanding in Tennessee and Mexico to keep up with its customers. The firm, which is heavily involved in automotive injection molding, is seeing growth in its key market and in relatively new business areas, said Century Mold CEO and President Ron Ricotta.
January 17, 2012
HONG KONG (Jan. 16, 3:10 p.m. ET) -- Toys are much safer in the U.S. since a wave of recalls in 2007 and 2008, but manufacturers should be focusing on better toy design to continue to reduce hazards, the top U.S. toy safety regulator told a Hong Kong conference Jan. 11.
January 16, 2012
ISELIN, N.J. (Jan. 12, 1:45 p.m. ET) -- BASF SE on Jan. 12 announced that it has invested $50 million to buy an equity stake in Sion Power, a Tucson, Ariz.-based developer of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries.
January 12, 2012
GREEN BAY, WIS. (Jan. 11, 3:40 p.m. ET) -- Wisconsin Plastics Inc. plans to spend about $1 million to expand and modernize custom injection molding capacity at its Green Bay plant. The private company will buy four hydraulic-electric hybrid Negri Bossi injection presses and robots over the next year, said President Jim Christensen.
January 11, 2012
MINNEAPOLIS (Jan. 10, 3:40 p.m. ET) -- Custom injection molder Diversified Plastics Inc. has been purchased by its employees through an employee stock ownership plan. Company co-founder James Dow, who will remain as president, said the ESOP allows the firm to survive as a business entity and continue to grow -- and avoid layoffs.
January 10, 2012
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 10, 12 p.m. ET) -- 3D Systems Corp. on Jan. 10 unveiled its first 3D printer for the consumer market.
January 10, 2012
RAPPERSWIL, SWITZERLAND (Jan. 10, 12 p.m. ET) -- The Institut für Werkstofftechnik und Kunststoffverarbeitung (IWK) materials and plastics processing institute at the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil (HSR) in Rapperswil, presented an illuminated metal foil back injection molded demonstration part at Fakuma 2011.
January 10, 2012
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