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Electric vehicles (EV) are the future. Consider the billions of dollars that automakers—and tech companies—are investing in the technology, the new models every year and regulations that promote EVs as green alternatives to internal combustion engines (ICE), and it’s clear…

Good plastics design is essential to innovative product development, as well as to quality-of-life advances and progress in virtually every application that affects the comfort and well-being of individuals and society.   But it’s counter-productive when otherwise good designs and products…

Industry icon Glenn Beall stamps an indelible legacy on the growth of plastics and of SPE Recently, I had the privilege of spending a day with Glenn Beall, who joined SPE in 1960 and is the Society’s oldest active member.…

Sal Monte continues to challenge conventional thinking about coupling agents and catalysts.

80 Years and Counting Exactly 80 years ago, Fred O. Conley of Detroit and two colleagues signed incorporation papers in Michigan and the Society of Plastics Engineers was born. Conley was a major figure in the development of SPE: He…