With major auto manufactures rushing to green their upcoming vehicle lines as quickly as possible, Ford Motor Company has announced that it is researching an innovative material that may one day ...

“Liquid wood” might sound like something Lex Luthor would use to choke the planet, but the innovation’s chief allure is green. Also known as Arboform, it was first invented by researchers at the ...

Just in time for Christmas, German researchers are ramping up a manufacturing technique for making intricate Nativity figurines, toys, and even hi-fi speaker boxes from a renewable and surprisingly ...

Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource. Researchers have now optimized the plastic in such a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Plastic was one of the great chemical inventions of the 20th century but now liquid wood may be the plastic of the 21st century, ...

ITALY: Benetton switching to “liquid wood” hangers Italian fashion retailer Benetton plans to save 600 tons of plastic this year by switching to innovative, lightweight "liquid wood" clothes hangers ...

A novel method for adding liquid by-products from the wood industry into wood-plastic composites (WPCs) prior to manufacturing was developed in a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The ...

Engineers in Germany are testing a new material made of wood scrap that can be molded like plastic. Ford already claims that is uses some 290 parts derived from renewables, such as cotton, hemp, and ...

This release is available in German. Toys have to put up with a lot of rough treatment: They are sucked by small children, bitten with milk teeth, dragged along behind bobby cars, and every now and ...