The Design Innovation in Plastics competition, which this year focuses
on sustainability, is open for entries until 17 October. The award is
jointly organised by IOM3 and the Worshipful Company of Horners.
Over the past six years, UK’s Sheffield Forgemasters International has progressed from near closure to a record turnover. Meagan Ellis finds out more about the man at the helm, Chief Executive Dr Graham Honeyman CBE.
Amkor Technology, based in Chandler, USA, has developed improved flip chip packaging for electronic circuits using single-piece forming with improved mould compounds. The company expects the Flip Chip Moulded Ball Grid Array package, a method of inter-connecting integrated circuits, to become the industry standard.
The UK’s Waste Resources & Action Programme announced on 28 July that there was a halt on levels of grocery packaging growth from 2006-7 by 32 of the UK’s major retailers and brand owners. Rupal Mehta discovers more about the materials development this involved across the retail supply chain.
The Caparo T1 track car, made using novel manufacturing techniques
for carbon composite parts, is in its final lap as the first production
specification vehicles are to be launched later this year. Capro aims to make carbon composite parts more affordable for use in lightweight vehicles to reduce carbon emissions and improve fuel economy.
Designers at the Saazs Institute, based in Paris, France, claim to have
developed the first light-emitting glass, which can last for 20 years.
The material could be used to create luxury lighting products for
homes, hotels and retail outlets.
The newest frontier for mining is underwater. Meagan Ellis looks at the technology involved and the environmental concerns that remain with this untested excavation technique.
A new 15,000t production line that manufactures pressed bricks for iron and steel mills containing little or no embedded carbon is in production in Gongyi, China. Gengsheng Minerals creates low-carbon bricks to be used in furnaces and ladles.
The global network for the materials cycle