A Better Approach than Biodegradable Bioplastics
I have spoken to several green-minded people over the past few years and am encouraged to hear their passion for the environment. Many...
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Jun 30, 20193 min read
Rethinking Energy
Part 3 - How we Drive is as Important as what we Drive We live in a busy world and we always seem to be rushing somewhere in an effort to...
Jun 25, 20192 min read
Rethinking Energy
Part 2 - An Historical Perspective Much of the world is working to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to limit the rise of the global...
Jun 24, 20194 min read
Rethinking Manufacturing
Part 1 Emerging nations are continuing to enjoy growth in manufacturing and gains in wages and standard of living. In contrast, developed...
Jun 18, 20192 min read
Waste Plastic - The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
We live in a world that has been powered by fossil fuels since the industrial revolution two hundred years ago. But we are now facing...
Jun 7, 20193 min read
The Collateral Damage of Outsourcing Manufacturing
Over the past three decades, outsourcing, typically to Asia, has been regarded as a straightforward way of reducing costs and gaining a...
Jun 4, 20193 min read
Product Sustainability – Moving Forward by Moving Back
My parents purchased a number of appliances and other household items between 1959 and 1963 as they set up their household. In this era,...
Jun 3, 20193 min read
Making Canada Competitive Again
We’ve lost our edge! Canada is now ranked 13th of the world’s most competitive economies, leading to criticism that our lack of...
May 30, 20195 min read
Opportunity is Knocking
Opportunity is knocking – you can now make and sell finished goods from recycled plastic for less than the cost of new plastic resin!...
May 19, 20192 min read
The Problem with Designing Disposable Products
There was a time when the “durable” in durable goods really meant something. In the 1950s through 1970s, a period of growing prosperity,...
May 15, 20192 min read
An Antidote for Globalization
The Move to Free Trade The modern global economy was driven by the deregulation of the 1980s, spearheaded by Margaret Thatcher in the...
May 10, 20191 min read
Breaking the Plastics Waste Paradigm
Check out this video: Transforming Plastic Waste into a Plastic Resource With Omachron’s ground-breaking extrusion and molding...
Apr 29, 20193 min read
Not all Molds are Created Equal
Many companies design and build injection molds by a standard production means. This facilitates efficient, high-volume production within...
Apr 29, 20191 min read
Meet Canada's most prolific (arguably) inventor who sees ideas everywhere
Who says you can’t reinvent the light bulb! Invention is an unusual state of mind. It’s that unusual state that drives the team at...
Apr 27, 20192 min read
Plastics, bio-plastics and true recycling.
Our modern world relies heavily on plastics, especially for one time use items such as packaging, straws, cutlery, stir sticks etc. ...
Apr 26, 20192 min read
Omachron Makes Plastic Recycling More Viable
Omachron is able to take 100% pre or post-consumer plastic and transform it into finished goods with excellent material properties and...
Apr 23, 20192 min read
Today’s Plastic Garbage is Tomorrow’s Asset
Man has produced more than eight billion tonnes of plastic and has consigned more than 6.3 billion tonnes of it to landfill or the ocean....
Apr 15, 20194 min read
Considerations when buying plastic-extrusion or injection-molding equipment
The lowest price is not necessarily the lowest cost! There is much more to buying equipment than the initial price. Whether you are...
Apr 13, 20192 min read
Injection Molding vs 3D Printing
The success of any manufacturing venture is based upon an innovative product design brought to market with capital, materials and labor....
Apr 3, 20194 min read
FREE SHIPPING – NOTHING IS FREE
We live during a time in which centralized manufacturing and distribution threatens to transform our world and our concepts of work....
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