Building & Construction

Market reports forecast near 5 percent CAGR for flexible PE packaging and HDPE pipe. Influences include sustainability, barrier and infrastructure repair.

Israel’s UBQ Materials Ltd., developer of advanced materials made from everyday waste, has secured more funding and is creating new end-use applications.

Polyvinyl chloride is widely used in durable building and construction goods, notably pipe, windows, siding, flooring and roofing. PVC manufacturers have long reused regrind and refined their processes to minimize post-industrial (or pre-consumer) scrap.

Company names Tom Fitzgerald Jr. vice president of composites manufacturing.

Nexboard developer Xeriant develops a fiber-reinforced polymer composite sourced from recycled plastics.

Improvements in PCR supply and end-use standards could keep more plastics waste from landfills.

PVC developments focus on resin process technology recycling techniques and life cycle analysis of products.

Global reports on additive manufacturing find double-digit growth, emerging opportunities for process.

Branch Technology 3D prints an accurate map of lunar surface for NASA Space Camp building.

Plastics waste gets new life and positive reviews as an asphalt additive for roads and other hard surfaces.

An innovative paving system from recycled plastic solves flooding problems in urban areas

The lack of input by women in everyday product designs can have unintended, even deadly, consequences It’s generally not a good strategy to ignore half of your prospective customers, employees, partners or clients. And yet that is exactly what happens…