Welding plastics using laser technology not only reduces ... These joins mostly involve polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) or polycarbonate as the upper component, and are currently usually joined ...

The company also is nearing completion of a new plant in Bay City, Texas, for the manufacture of methyl methacrylate precursor that is then polymerized to create PMMA, or acrylic, resin.

Elvis Okoffo receives funding from the Goodman Foundation, The Australian Academy of Science and The Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Hyphenated Analytical Separation ...

Plastics are all around us -- from food packaging ... PC (polycarbonate), PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) and PMMA, another ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested. By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked.

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

Impact Plastics and its CEO, Gerald O'Connor, have been sued by the family of one of its Tennessee employees who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. The wrongful death ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...