Consumer Products 
Clever products for the gardening market are being launched this year by 4 Leaves Innovation, a company started by Peter Manning to bring his design ideas to market.
28 July 2010
Weight reduction is a key design driver for Netherlands-based Viking, a leading producer of ice skates. The latest generation of Viking skates is now completely made in plastic – except for the metal blade.
23 July 2010
Reckitt Benckiser, the Anglo-Dutch household products company, has agreed to buy SSL International in a £2.5bn deal that will add the Durex and Scholl foot-care brands to its health and personal care division.
21 July 2010
Ros, a German manufacturer of high-performance plastic components, has chosen Victrex Peek for a new line of bearing cages developed for sports applications.
21 July 2010
Bayer MaterialScience has announced a partnership with the Holst Centre, a research initiative backed by Belgium’s IMEC and The Netherlands’ TNO, to develop flexible electronics.
13 July 2010
Safety assessments of plastic toys should consider overall risk, taking account of their likely use, rather than just focusing on the toxicity of substances used to make them, the European Union’s (EU) Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks has advised.
12 July 2010
Total Petrochemicals has announced what it claims is a significant advance in the manufacture of synthetic turf for football pitches. It has developed Lumicene M3427, a new grade of polyethylene metallocene that enables the manufacture of synthetic turf fibres that meet the highest FIFA standards.
9 July 2010
IDC Models, the rapid prototyping and model making division of Industrial Design Consultancy (IDC), has provided a hands-on moulding system for IndexSAR, specialists in performance-testing wireless systems.
8 July 2010
UK injection moulding company Avalon Plastics has taken possession of a new £2.5 million facility at Glastonbury.
8 July 2010
A range of specialist plastic electronics businesses are to benefit from a total of £8.4m investment in research and development into new technology that will lead to the creation of a range of new products such as conformable and rollable electronic displays, ultra-efficient lighting and low-cost, long-life solar cells.
2 July 2010
Teijin Chemicals has begun manufacturing transparent conductive films that are expected to be used in next generation electronic paper. The material will enable the creation of e-paper that is lighter and thinner than current products on the market, according to the firm.
1 July 2010
Electrolux has launched its “Vac from the sea” initiative to get plastic waste out of the world’s oceans and into home appliances made of recycled plastic.
30 June 2010
Design firm Emeco is selling a version of its popular Navy chair made out of recycled Coca-Cola bottles.
29 June 2010
The Poole-based UK branch of Swiss ultrasonics specialist Telsonic has already achieved its target turnover for the year in the first five months of 2010.
21 June 2010
They’re a metre long, brightly coloured and made from blow-moulded HDPE… and en mass they sound like a swarm of bees. The vuvuzela is the de facto sound of the World Cup in South Africa.
14 June 2010
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