You see their ubiquitous “UL” label on products ranging from vacuum cleaners to laptops: Underwriters Solutions (formerly Underwriters Laboratories) is such a well-known logo, many people mistake it for a government seal-of-approval. But Underwriters Solutions is a private company, albeit one that works closely with OSHA (Occupational Health & Safety Administration), a federal agency. And…
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You usually don’t think of “plastic” when you think of electrical equipment. Copper, brass, steel, even rubber comes to mind, but plastic? Wouldn’t it be likely to break, melt or stop the current in some way? The answer to the first two concerns is an emphatic “no.” High-temperature precision thermoplastics, as their name implies, have…
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Imagine viewing the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse without the technology to do so! Telescopes, cameras, glasses–are all optical products that dominated this historic event the past week. But, without plastic injection molding techniques used to create these products — burn, baby, burn–retinas on fire! Arylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic is used to create the…
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There’s a famous scene in “The Graduate”, the iconic 60’s movie that made a star out of Dustin Hoffman, and which besmirched a material that 50 years later has made a stunning comeback. It comes at a graduation party for Hoffman’s character: one of the adult party-goers corrals “Ben”, the Hoffman character, leads him outside…
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The big news out of Apple this week is that the iconic company is introducing a newer, less expensive iPhone in tandem with its revised version of iPhone 5. Why is the new iPhone 5c ($99) more economical than the new iPhone 5s ($199)? The big reason is the material used to create the body…
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