Industry 4.0

Understanding the complex relationships between fibers, melt flow, and microstructure characteristics can help leverage the benefits of this high-performance material.

Advances in high-performance polymers are enabling subway systems to meet demands for fire safety, structural efficiency, and lifecycle durability.

As artificial intelligence transforms the identification, sorting, and recovery of plastics, regulators are racing to keep pace with a technology poised to redefine the future of recycling.

Solvent-responsive hydrogel enables reversible, high-resolution data storage, encryption, and decryption with rapid switching and mechanical durability.

Connected packaging tech breaks physical barriers, linking real-world products with dynamic and immersive digital experiences.

Carbon black pigments blocked NIR sorting, hindering black plastic recycling, but new industry innovations are now solving the issue.

Inventory management stands at the core of operational excellence in the polymer packaging industry.

As sustainability becomes a key priority across industries, packaging companies must rethink how they design, produce, and manage materials.

Bioplastics often carry a reputation for disrupting recycling systems, yet a recent European Bioplastics study presents a different perspective.

In a presentation at SPE ANTEC® 2025, researchers showed how Meta’s DINOv2 can optimize the detection of injection molding defects.