A Brooklyn man used three-dimensional printers to make his own gun parts in what police said Wednesday was the first such case they’ve seen among build-them-yourself ghost gun dealers. Deonte Haynes, ...

3D printing has made it incredibly easy to produce small runs of plastic parts, but getting rid of the 3D printed look can be tricky and time-consuming. When you need a smooth and polished finish, or ...

A Swedish company called PaperShell wants to replace plastic parts with parts made from paper, and has announced a partnership with electric scooter maker Cake. The material would have numerous ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

Unless you work in manufacturing or product design, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about how plastic shapes are made. Look around you — see anything with a plastic casing? It was ...

Black plastic exterior trim used to be a telltale sign that you bought the cheapest model available. Automakers save money on unpainted parts as they don't have to be color-matched to the various ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plastic is everywhere in a modern car, and it's not hard to fathom why. Plastic is lighter than steel, is cheaper to make, easier to mold into ...

A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...

PINSK, 1 March (BelTA) – Plans have been made to build a factory in Pinsk to make plastic components for electrical batteries. The plans were mentioned as Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko ...

Detroit — As the auto industry prepares for the growth of electric vehicle production, suppliers are setting themselves up to provide the technical parts needed to make sure EVs function safely. Auto ...

VW has been working with HP and Siemens to scale up 3D metal printing processes to make car parts. Metallic 3D-printed parts weigh half as much as those produced from sheet steel, allowing the ...