Performance Plastics Conquers Friction to Reduce Maintenance
Metal-to-metal wear from friction is a maintenance nightmare for many industries. Constant lubrication, prematurely wearing parts and seizing lead to an increase in wage expenses, safety issues, productivity losses, and equipment damage that could be avoided....
Flying High With Plastics
We stumbled on a really neat article recently about a new patent by Windspeed, an aerospace company. The patent is for a bubble-type viewing area on the top of an airliner, where a couple of seats would move up into the bubble giving the passengers an unobstructed 360...
Architectural Ingenuity with Plastics
(Angela Rodenburgh | December 2014/January 2015 | The IAPD Magazine) Plastics are quickly becoming one of the most universal materials in construction and are being increasingly embraced by architects and engineers because of the extensive varieties available...
A Little Plastic PR
One of the issues faced by the plastics industry is public relations. The media seems to have regular stories of plastic clogging up landfills, of cute animals caught in ocean debris, and of health risks posed by all sorts of plastics and plastic additives. While...
Fire Extinguisher Windows
One project we worked on recently involved acrylic “windows” for fire extinguisher mounts in Saskatchewan. We were approached by a contractor who did not know where else to procure them, as the application is somewhat difficult to fabricate. Thin (2mm)...