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Meticulous Planning Required to Roll out New Trends in Plastics Design

28 February 2005 - Frost & Sullivan Cost-effective, innovative plastics designs are the result of painstaking planning. In order for the plastics industrial design (ID) to flow into the next generation, researchers usually follow a three-step process - scouting the next trend, blending ID with design engineering, and cultivating the celebrity designer crossover.

Groundbreaking innovations usher an exciting phase in the plastics materials industry

30 August 2004 - Frost & Sullivan Plastics Materials – Emerging Technology and Trends, part of the Chemicals and Materials Subscription Service, is a compendium of hard-to-find data and information collated from prioritized trade sources. It defines and describes the value of a given technology in different polymer segments such as major plastics material, engineering plastics, thermoplastic elastomers, higher performance plastics, compounded plastics, and plastics additives technology.

Rapid prototyping makes technologies affordable by enabling mass customization

13 July 2004 - Frost & Sullivan Rapid Prototyping Technology, part of the Industrial Manufacturing Vertical Subscription Service, analyzes its uses in various applications, and examines the techniques involved. The research also looks at the future of this technology and explains the importance of advanced manufacturing. The RP processes included in this study are fused deposition modelling, selective laser sintering, stereolithography (SLA), 3D printing, combination RP techniques, and Internet-based RP and RP software.

Strong Shipbuilding and Offshore Sectors in East Asia Beckon Western European Metallic Welding Equipment and Consumables Manufacturers

02 June 2004 - Frost & Sullivan Metallic Welding Equipment and Consumables Market: Shipbuilding and Offshore Applications - Latest Findings by Frost & Sullivan

Sustained technology development promises effective explosive detection systems to curb terrorism

27 January 2004 - Frost & Sullivan This analysis, part of the Technical Insights Homeland Security Alert, provides a detailed assessment of technologies in use and under development for explosive detection systems.

Electronics sector progresses with breakthroughs in materials science

08 July 2003 - Frost & Sullivan Technical Insights Electronics and Semiconductors Industry Impact Research Service: Developments and Opportunities in Advanced Electronic Materials

Titanate thin films becoming a reality with crystal ion slicing

07 July 2003 - Frost & Sullivan New analysis by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan (http://www.Technical-Insights.frost.com), featured in the Advanced Coatings and Surface Technology, examines the potential of a new technology – crystal ion slicing – to produce single-crystal thin films and discusses critical research work being undertaken in this area.

Consumer education and development of bio-sensitive alternatives can revive the plastics industry

30 May 2003 - Frost & Sullivan New analysis by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan (www.technicalinsights.frost.com), featured in The Technical Insights Plastics Advisor, provides valuable insight into the impact of economic and environmental factors on plastics and the plastic recycling industry. It highlights emerging technologies, bio-sensitive alternatives, resource conservation, recycled products, and the laws that affect the plastic industry.