Beaverton, Ore. — Elite Plastics is adding injection molding presses and advanced laboratory equipment. “We are expanding a lot for us” and adding technologies, Dan Thurmond, president, said in a ...

HARVEY — Atkore Inc. said it has acquired the assets of Elite Polymer Solutions, a manufacturer of plastic conduit primarily serving telecommunications, utility and transportation markets, for a ...

Polymers, defined as macromolecules composed of repeating chemical units or monomers, are the foundational building blocks of plastics – a class of versatile materials that have revolutionised ...

There’s a great future in plastics. A new kind of plastic can, when exposed to the right chemicals, break down into the same basic building blocks that it came from and be rebuilt again and again. The ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

A polymer is a chemical compound that contains a large number of identical molecular repeating units. A plastic material is a polymer, typically modified with additives, which can be molded or shaped ...