Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is slowly filing out to make room for ...
Tags: Microsoft, digital currency, technology
STetra Pak is the engine room of Australia's dairy drive in Asia. It is getting drink manufacturers into better shape in an increasingly cluttered market. And it is giving the good old milk bottle a long life run for its money. Now it ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, drink manufacturers, better shape
Munich-based WACKER Group has adopted the motto "Discover Tomorrow's Solutions" for this year's Middle East Coatings Show (MECS), in Dubai from March 10 to 12. The company is unveiling a new dispersible polymer powder for cost-efficient, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
The firm received 515 per cent backing on Kickstarter for its line of Mo-To cars. CandyLab Toys, a US Kickstarter-funded toy firm, is looking for international distributors for its line of Sixties-inspired wooden toy cars, Mo-To. The ...
Tags: Candylab Toys, Toys, Wooden Cars
A team of four researchers from several universities in the U.S. has given a presentation at this year's American Physical Society meeting, outlining a theory they are developing to help explain a phenomenon known as earthquake lightning. ...
The research showed 97% of respondents said the problem occurs when reopening a container, with paint drying up on the rim and lid of containers and flakes falling into the paint, resulting in poor quality. RPC says its Superfos FlakeFree ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, RPC Plastic Paint Containers, Containers
Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information. This new technique, which controls electrical conductivity within such ...
Tags: Squeezing Light, Metals, Inkjet Printer
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has added to its GaN in Plastic series with a wideband packaged ...
Tags: military radar, reliable high-voltage operation, CW modes
Alongside changing consumer habits, there have been recent developments in technology meaning there is now opportunity for manufacturers and suppliers to be more creative than ever before. So, what developments should we be looking out ...
Tags: innovation trends, Personalised packaging, Pack differentiation
What is epoxy flooring? Epoxy is a thermosetting hard plastic polymer created from a combination of liquid polymer resins and a hardening agent. The two main ingredients in the creation of epoxy are the resin known as epoxide and the ...
Tags: Epoxy Flooring, Chemical Industry
Plastic Food Containers are widely used in Packaging Industry because of their light weight and relatively low cost. Besides, plastics are attributed with exceptional moisture barrier properties, which is very important to protect the food ...
Food packaging serves multiple purposes. It protects the foodstuff from moisture, dust, microbes, and other contaminants, it facilitates easy handling during transit and storage, guards against any physical or chemical damage and at stores ...
PPG Industries has formed an agreement between the commercial coatings group of its automotive refinish business and Van Nay, LLC, to expand the line of ECK corrosion-prevention products that PPG distributes. PPG now offers the full line of ...
Tags: Commercial Coatings, ECK Products
After wowing crowds and early adopters alike at the International CES in Las Vegas earlier this year, the Pebble Steel smart watch is set to get Australian retail distribution, with Dick Smith picking up exclusive rights to the device. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, smart watch, watch
Coles sells a lot of bottled water. Its own brand of bottled water comes in 24 pack cartons sold for $8. There's almost no personal cost to wearing this decade's hot fashion accessory. The environment is wearing the cost. So Coles is doing ...