Category Archives: Oil Country

Fire In The Hole: Good News for Apple’s Prized Molding Material

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Its expenses are rising. Its revenues are dropping. But the tide of red ink is not damping enthusiasm at what may be the most important breakthrough technology in [..]

Amorphous Metals, Design, Injection Molding, Metal Injection Molding (MIM), Metals, North America, Oil Country , ,

Auto Sourcing Execs Caught With Their Shorts Down –Again

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 1

Automotive sourcing managers are back in the soup again just a year after Japanese tsunami-related production problems triggered supply disruptions for six months. Now execs at GM, Ford, [..]

Alternative energy, Asia, Automotive, Europe, Management, North America, Oil Country ,

Bioplastics at NPE2012: My Take

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Bioplastics were not front and center at the year’s National Plastics Exposition, held in Orlando, FL this week. NPE is the every-three-years show where companies roll out their [..]

Asia, Automotive, Bioplastics, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Europe, Green, Injection Molding, Medical, North America, Oil Country, Sports , ,

Biodegradable Plastics May Clean Up Fracking Pollution

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

A major emerging producer of bioplastics is teaming with a Houston energy company in an attempt to develop a more environmentally effective way to remove natural gas from [..]

Bioplastics, Green, North America, Oil Country

Film-to-Metal Laminates Eliminate Adhesives

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Doug Smock | Permalink 1

Materials’ specialist Rogers Corp. is bonding PEEK film to metal foils in a heat lamination process that overcomes adhesive delamination problems. The reduction of VOCs also results in [..]

Aircraft, Automotive, Engineering Thermoplastics, Lamination, North America, Oil Country , ,