Ledwell Plastics, a plastic moulding and product design specialist based in Leicester, has entered administration. The company had fallen into financial difficulty in a challenging operating ...

Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of the Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, ...

(Many plastics are more water-repelling than glass—think of the PET bottles that many soft drinks come in, or of hard plastic like the PP used for Dopper bottles.) Beyond avoiding messy kitchen ...

Research from the University of Liverpool has highlighted weaknesses in the structural design of hot water bottles. Hot water bottles have been around for generations, yet there is surprisingly little ...

Most of the technologies that we have today melt down plastic bottles and downcycle them into lower-quality products. What's particularly exciting about our research is that we harnessed moisture ...