Design & Development News

A revolutionary helmet that won't turn heads 5 March 2010
Dr Ken Phillips worked with IDC on a motorcycle helmet that mimics the human head to absorb rotational impacts in an accident.

Machined chair showcases epoxy 5 March 2010
Ambler Technologies used Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD system to design a chair highlighting Trelleborg AEM's epoxy resins.

ICO Polymers posts attack on YouTube 12 February 2010
ICO Polymers came up with a great way to show the strength of tanks made with its Icorene rotomoulding powders – and then filmed the results.

Bianor squares up to Philips coffee maker 12 February 2010
Polish-Dutch joint venture company Bianor provided injection moulding support to the Philips design team for the Senseo Quadrante coffee machine.

A great LeeP forward for plastic springs 10 February 2010
Lee Spring is offering a corrosion-free alternative to steel with springs made from Sabic's Ultem PEI polymer material.

Putting design under the microscope 5 February 2010
When DesignEdge needed versatile manufacturing for the complex design of the Carl Zeiss EVO microscope, it turned to Midas Pattern.

What’s got eight legs and likes iPhones? 21 January 2010
The Spiderpodium may look arachnidan but it is in fact a unique plastics alternative to the static docks used to hold phones, media players and satnavs.

Street legal flying car prototype takes flight, 19 January 2010
Innovative aviation firm Terrafugia is making use of 3D software from Dassault Systèmes to design the beta prototype of its street-legal airplane.

Plastics clean up with high pressure performance, 12 January 2010
Moplen EP240T from LyondellBasell has been selected for industrial water high-pressure cleaners by Alfred Kärcher.

CPR Assistant is a life saver, 11 December 2009
The CPR Assistant design keeps the head at the correct angle for opening the airway and steadies the body during CPR activity.

Plastic lamp design folds like origami,17 November 2009
A German design student has created a lamp which can be adapted into different sculptural shapes.

Gazelle leaps ahead with E Bike control pod, 13 November 2009
Gazelle's E Bike panel, designed by Product Partners, comprises 16 individual plastic components.

Sabic smells the coffee and enhances Vitality, 12 November 2009
Sabic’s high-temperature Ultem 1000 resin has been chosen by Vitality Foodservice, a manufacturer of drinks machines, to create a low-dose steam heating ‘bump pump’ for its latest coffee dispensing system.

Office chair offers comfort and support thanks to DSM, 9 November 2009
Herman Miller selected three material families from Netherlands-based DSM for the production of key elements of its Embody chair.

FS Design in the dock over Micra iPod holder, 9 November 2009
Product design and development company, FS Design, has won the Echo Portfolio Award for Technology for an integrated iPod dock for the Nissan Micra.

DCA wins design honours for insulin injector pen, 5 November 2009
DCA Design International has won the Grand Prix award at the 2009 DBA Design Effectiveness Awards for the SoloStar insulin injector pen it created for Sanofi Aventis.

BASF hammers home advantage for Bosch drill design, 2 November 2009
Bosch has launched a cordless hammer drill, the GBH 36 V-LI, made of BASF’s Ultramid B3EG7, a highly rigid and impact-resistant glass fibre-reinforced grade of polyamide 6.

Shoe in for Arrk prototyping technology, 21 October 2009
Prototyping specialist, Arrk Product Development Group, helped the makers of Channel Five’s The Gadget Show.