Design

Automotive grades meet growing sustainability needs of OEMs and brand owners.

Rotomolded boat designed for new generation of water enthusiasts.

Weber Fibertech, a specialist in long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic parts, has partnered with KraussMaffei and a pair of former professional cyclists to produce a safe, sustainable children’s bicycle via the injection molding of nylon 6 reinforced with 40 percent recycled carbon fibers. They call it “a groundbreaking new and resource-saving material mix in the bicycle industry.”

Tracking innovations from fast restoration of power to better body bags.

Small, lightweight defibrillator is part of a connected ecosystem of responders.

MIT researchers say the device changes the form factor of the ultrasound technology.

Recycled ABS and ocean-bound plastics used in huge curved monitor.

Continental says its Curved Ultrawide Display is world’s first pillar-to-pillar unit.

Saxophone-like instrument is compact, lightweight and affordable.

Diverse Products Earn IDSA’s Curator’s Choice and People’s Choice Awards.

Top honors go to Polyformer, a homemade machine that turns PET bottles into 3D filaments.

A vital but underappreciated discipline is key to the future of plastics & the environment.