Plastic Uses
How are Plastics used in Automotive and what are the benefits?
Plastics have been used in the automotive industry for many years, affording many benefits and in fact the frequent innovations in plastics have been a large factor for the advances in the automotive industry. Plastics have so many useful properties that can be modified and altered to become the perfect material for vehicles and the…
Read MoreHow plastic has increased safety in different industries
There are innovations in the plastics industry all the time, this allows the material to be constantly improving and become more and more useful for industries. One of the largest impacts plastic has made is actually in safety and the safety of workers in a lot of industries. The properties that plastics have are extremely…
Read MoreWhy are plastics essential in medicine?
Plastics have had a revolutionary impact on the medical industry, making procedures simpler and safer. They have been a contributing factor in reduced medical costs, a reduction in infectious diseases and have improved forms of pain management. Sterility Plastics completely revolutionised this aspect of medicine allowing practitioners to have sterilised equipment quickly and easily. Plastics…
Read MorePlastic Is Fantastic – Rayda Reveal Common Plastic Uses
At Rayda we use a range of plastic materials to produce our plastic extrusions including; UPVC, Flexible PVC, ABS, HIPS, Polypropylene, TPU and more! Some are soft and malleable, others and hard and durable. We aren’t the only ones that recognise the fantastic benefits of plastic and it is therefore a favourable material choice within…
Read MorePlastic And The Automotive Industry – A Budding Relationship
At Rayda we like to know what else is going on within the Plastic Industry as a whole. One thing that has caught our interest lately is the role that the material plastic is playing within the automotive industry. There is much evidence to suggest that developments with using plastic within vehicles has improved some…
Read MoreThe Use of Plastic in the Home
Why Plastic? Plastic is a durable and strong material that uses fewer resources in production than a lot of its competitor materials. It is also often a lot more cost-effective than other materials, such as wood, metal and glass. The flexibility and versatility of plastic gives it plenty of uses in the home, both inside…
Read MoreNavtar Launches Microextruded Medical Tubing
Tekni-Plex company, Navtar announced the launch of their tight tolerance microextruded medical tubing earlier this year at the MD&M East, a MedTech event in New York. They have produced this tubing for use in neurovascular interventional therapies (working with nerves and blood vessels) and for use in various surgical applications. Navtar’s products are already used…
Read MoreIs Plastic the Answer to Brain Interfaces?
Advances in technology and science have now made it possible to chemically modify electricity-conducting plastics to improve their conductivity and make them more elasticated. Removing the brittle characteristic of these electronics allows a number of advances to be made, particularly in medicine as the electrodes produced can act as a second skin. These plastic electrodes…
Read MoreIntroducing More Polymer Banknotes
Following the introduction of the new £5 polymer banknotes in 2016, there is set to be polymer £10 notes by summer 2017 and £20 notes by 2020. The notes are manufactured using polypropylene which is a thermoplastic polymer. Its appearance is transparent plastic film which is printed on by layering ink and can also be…
Read MorePlastic Extrusion in the Motoring Industry
Plastic has an extensive number of uses in various circumstances due to its great properties. In the motoring industry, plastic is used widely in production as there are numerous benefits to using the material. Some of the benefits of plastic extrusion in the motoring industry are listed below: Cost-Effective Plastic is cheaper than other materials…
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