The vast majority of the total tonnage used in wind turbine blade manufacturing is glass fiber and thermoset resins, primarily epoxy and vinyl ester. Let's take a look at new wind energy resin and fiber material advances. The increasing size of wind turbine blades poses...

Never have official estimates of fossil fuel subsidies in the United States been so high and never have...
Researchers from Harvard and MIT recently teamed up to create a 3-D printed inchworm robot that can assemble...
Dassault Systèmes, a French company with roughly 1,000 employees at a campus in Massachusetts, said it has acquired Simpoe, a French firm focused on plastic injection molding simulation. In a statement, Bernard Charlès,...
A number of bottle and container producers and their customers have started to incorporate a dosing system developed by Bark Innovations of the Netherlands. The patented valve and cap system is integrated with a dosing chamber in the bottle to allow precise dosing by the...
For a long time, when people in the plastics industry talked about plastic grocery bags being recyclable, it was a mostly theoretical exercise. But the reality was that most bags were not recycled. Some, unfortunately, ended up as...
In the past century or so, football helmets have come a long way, evolving from crude "leatherheads" crafted by shoemakers to plastic-and-rubber hybrids that can be customized to fit a player's head and have radios built in. Nevertheless,...
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