Product Development 
While not yet part of the mainstream, enhanced barrier PET bottles have been quietly gaining ground in the beverage industry. With volume driving prices down, alcoholic drink manufacturers are increasingly adopting this convenient packaging format
25 February 2010
A new motorcycle helmet design use thermoplastics technology to mimic the “skin and bone” structure of the human skull to help reduce the rotational brain injuries that result in the deaths of so many riders
16 February 2010
The French medical device maker won a Pharmapack award for its new Ephedrine syringe design, which features a novel contamination-free opening mechanism
16 February 2010
Euromold is fast becoming the meeting point for Europe's product prototyping, design and development community. European Plastics News reviews some of the newest innovations on show at the 2009 event in Frankfurt
8 February 2010
New design provides higher flow rates and can be used on both wet and dry decontamination aseptic filling lines
2 February 2010
Two young British entrepreneurs have made extensive use of plastics to create an award winning - and fast selling - range of housewares. Antony Joseph, the design brains behind Joseph Joseph, speaks to European Plastics News about the company's approach
1 February 2010
Humankind's desire to manufacture objects of beauty goes back for thousands of years and even though mass manufacturing is now commonplace, design is no less important
29 January 2010
Resin producer Total Petrochemicals and machine maker Persico have jointly developed a patented multi-layer technology for producting dual-layer rotationally moulded fuel tanks to meet the latest US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) emission requirements
19 January 2010
The latest rotational moulded Platin range of flat rainwater tanks from Otto Graf, of Teningen, Germany, was a winner in the 2010 German Innovation Awards organised by the Pro-K consumer plastics goods association
19 January 2010
Borealis cemented a 50-year association with the city of Linz in Austria last week when it inaugarated its €50m Innovation Headquarters
23 November 2009
Using the inspiration of the playful forming of origami and Lego, a German design student has created a lamp which can be adapted into different sculptural shapes
19 November 2009
The Euromold fair, which takes place in December, has grown to include almost any service involved in plastics product development. European Plastics News takes a look at what will be on show
16 November 2009
The increase in sales during the summer period is attributed to manufacturers stepping up product development activity as they see early signs of economic improvement
10 November 2009
US blow moulding technology company Plastic Technologies Incorporated (PTI) is pushing a new method of making foamed PET bottles and jars, saying the technology can easily fit into existing recycling programmes
8 October 2009
A team of moulding specialists at Queen's University Belfast is pioneering a technique to use banana plantation waste from the Canary Islands in the manufacture of rotationally moulded plastic products
2 October 2009
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