Product design students Andrew Duffy, Craig Tyler and Edward Harrison have built a machine for making plastic objects, which is powered by a cordless drill. Made of scrap materials, the device ...

Rotational moulding, or roto moulding, is the method of choice for producing many of the hollow plastic products that we use in everyday life and is in fact one of the fastest-growing sectors of the ...

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: German designer Annika Frye incorporated a cordless drill in the rotational moulding machine she built for making one-off items using a process that would normally ...

You could say it was love at first cycle. It was 2010 when Ben Ismert, a mechanical engineer from Missouri, was working as president of Schier Products Co., an Edwardsville, Kan.-based manufacturer of ...

[Aurelio] wrote in to tell us about the smartCaster, an “Open source automatic roto-casting machine.” For those of you not familiar with roto-casting, or rotational molding, it’s a process whereby ...

Michiana Rotational Molding displays its new Rotoline rotational molding machine. CONSTANTINE, Mich.— Michiana Rotational Molding, a southwest Michigan-based rotational molding company, has expanded ...

SAN DIEGO — A Japanese firm has developed a process to rotomold polycarbonate street lamp covers and is seeking a North American licensee for the technology. The recent Association of Rotational ...

The material processes easily and has good chemical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Large-part applications include tanks for water expansion, hydraulic oil, fuel, and solvents as well as ...