Plastic Products

Injection molds are used to produce plastic products such as plastic cups, dish, spoon, and tools. Plastic products are widely used and are all around us in one form or another.

Choose Your Plastic Products with Care

By Kadence Buchanan -- As the cost of oil rises, it's perhaps time to take a closer look at how and why we use plastic products - and what impact the disposal of plastic items has on an environment we now recognize is in peril. It is difficult to measure how much of oil drilled and shipped to refineries is used in the production of plastic. One estimate is a low as 4 percent and energy experts doubt that,... more


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By Catherine Harvey -- The invention of plastic has opened the doors to a myriad of new product designs that otherwise would either not have been possible, or at best would have still been invented but at vastly inflated prices as to those that plastic brings about. Plastic has increasingly been used in product design throughout the years with varying popularity. Warehouses were full to the rafters with plastic furniture in the sixties but some people saw the products... more


Plastic: is it the New Black Gold?

By Andre Lee -- According to the report from the Ministry of environment, Mauritius produces some 120 tons of plastic wastes daily amounting to a total of 43,800 tons of waste every year of which only 4%, representing some 164 tons, are recycled. In 2006, the population's consumption of non-biodegradable plastic products amounted to some 70 million Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles, 7 million PVC bottles, and 113 million plastic bags. Now just imagine a process able to clear our... more