Many companies find it difficult to reduce the cost of metal surgical instruments. The production, cleaning, and sterilization of metal components can be expensive, and there is little that can be ...

No question a lot of metal parts have been converted to plastic over the past several years. But there are still many opportunities for conversion that go unevaluated. That's because designers ...

Ordinarily, if you want to join metal and plastic items together, you have to use either adhesives or rivets. Engineers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, however, ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. In a famous scene from the movie The Graduate, the young hero is advised that “there’s a great future in plastics,” a ...