A Canadian maker of high-strength plastic wall panels for homes is looking to set up a manufacturing plant in or near the Charleston region that could create up to 380 jobs. Terry Ball, chief ...

Swedish design brand Baux has a seemingly straightforward goal for its products. Instead of combining many raw materials to make its acoustic panels and wall coverings, the company wants to limit ...

Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (SIS) managing director Nick Wotton at the company’s South Australian production facility, holding SIS’ soft plastic blocks used to manufacture the company’s soft ...

Textures can calm us, bring warmth or even guide us. They elicit our sense of touch and also affect us visually. This is because lights and shadows tend to form in relation to the irregularities and ...

A new technique developed by Princeton University engineers for producing electricity-conducting plastics could dramatically lower the cost of manufacturing solar panels. By overcoming technical ...

Researchers have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with ...

Three manufacturers, Merlin Solar, Solarge, and LG, are making a move away from the standard aluminum and glass solar panel in a bid to lower weight, emissions, and cost. The product from Merlin Solar ...

As scientific discoveries reveal that the climate crisis is worse than expected, shifting to renewable energy generation is becoming more urgent. Over the past decade or so, advances in technology, as ...