Discussions by organizations promoting a circular, cradle-to-cradle, sustainable plastics economy often address packaging and single-use materials, not engineering plastics and polymers. That's ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

At roughly three times the size of France, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the planet’s most glaring scar from our dependency on plastic. “You hear about global warming and how plastics have a bad ...

The plastics manufacturing industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation as companies shift from traditional headcount-focused strategies to capability-driven workforce models. With rapid ...

Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have joined forces to take on a pressing environmental problem by using synthetic biology to turn plastic waste into valuable resources.

Edtor's note: This is the first article in a three-part series surveying the careers landscape within the plastics industry. The following articles, focusing on equipment operators and operations ...

Each year, more than 380 million tons of plastics are produced globally. Less than 10% of these plastics are reused or recycled, leading to significant accumulation and waste, not to mention the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ICG, the global alternative asset manager, today announced that its North American Direct Private Equity team has completed the acquisition of Seaway Plastics Engineering ...

Wooldridge learned about Intralox when Alisha Welch ’17, ’18, UML’s first intern at the company, spoke to her preparation course for the Professional Co-op Program. They ended up working together in ...