Two faculty researchers from the Department of Plastics Engineering have won grants for projects that aim to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills and the environment each year. Prof.

Honda has opted for Mitsubishi Chemical’s Durabio bio-engineering plastic in its latest motorcycle and mini-car models.

SHIRLEY, Mass., Sept. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innova Engineered Plastics (“Innova”), a trusted leader in heavy gauge plastic enclosures and single use components for medical device and other ...

A group of synthetic bacteria that can efficiently turn plastic waste into useful chemicals is presented in Nature Communications. These bacteria could help to tackle the growing problem of plastic ...

PTI Engineering Plastics, 2023 POY Winner: PTI unites automation, low volume on its way to win Processor of the Year Redline Plastics, 2023 Finalist: Public service part of the culture at Processor of ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...

Macomb, Mich. — PTI Engineered Plastics, has expanded its class-8 certified clean room by 8,000 square feet, tripling the company's current capacity with its existing 2,500-square-foot white space.

We live in a world of plastics. They have revolutionized medicine with life-saving devices, made space travel possible, lightened cars and planes (conserving fuel and lowering air pollution), and made ...

It was hailed as a wonderful thing: During the oil boom in the 1950s, chemists began to render the waste coming out of refineries into plastic — plastic packaging, plastic furniture, plastic fibers ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...

International researchers have genetically engineered two synthetic bacteria they say can help turn plastic waste into more useful chemicals. The two bacteria strains come from the soil bacterium ...