La Spumante, a PET bottle for sparkling wine designed and produced by Italian company SIPA, is a brand-new addition to the world of packaging. This innovative project has recently won an award at Worl...
For many years now, the German company Kraiburg Strail GmbH & Co KG, a developer and manufacturer of railway solutions, has been designing and marketing polymer railway sleepers, a sustainable alterna...
Danish sculptor Tom Lindhardt and Hans Mogens Fenne-Frederiksen established Kompan, a children’s playground design company, in 1970. In an era of rapid urbanisation, when more and more women were ente...
The organisers of the 2024 Olympic Games have announced that they intend to halve the greenhouse gas emissions emitted by the last Olympics in Rio (2016) and London (2012)....
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Plastic objects, whether they are recent or firmly-established cult objects,
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Wayfarer, cult sunglasses that stood the test of time
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Aircraft manufacturers are increasingly using composite materials and polymers within aircraft structures. These materials undeniably owe their success to being lightweight; however, they also possess...
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