25 October 2011

People Creating Value is bustling with activities. A new elevator is being installed and remodeling is being carried out, to the accompaniment of daily drilling and hammering in the heart of the building. And in the cellar, an extra meeting room and a new creativity area are slowly taking shape.

21 October 2011

This week at Fakuma materials producer BASF and injection molding machine manufacturer Arburg staged a special exhibit around the theme of energy efficiency. The two companies installed an injection-molding cell to exhibit the entire injection molding process, from product design through to production planning.

18 October 2011

The newest weapons in the fight against too much weight? Bananas, coconut, bamboo, flax. That is, if you are a car. These are all products that are nowadays being used as reinforcing materials in plastic composites, forming a green alternative to conventional reinforcements like glass fiber, carbon fiber and aramid.

14 October 2011

Outsourcing to Asia has been the way to go for the past ten years. Engineering, prototyping, toolmaking and production have been steadily disappearing eastward – even though in many cases, the work could have just as well stayed in Europe. 

10 October 2011

On 13 October, the second of the three workshops organized as part of the NRK Prima Business Opportunities map, a program aimed at identifying opportunities for the plastics sector, is scheduled to take place at Berenschot ’s office in Utrecht. Niels van der Stappen will attend the workshop on behalf of People Creating Value.

6 October 2011

As enthusiastic users of SolidWorks 3D CAD software, People Creating Value was pleased to receive an invitation to take part in one of the SolidWorks 2012 Launch Events being organized by software reseller Design Solutions.

3 October 2011

Acclaimed as a true natural polymer, “tested and tried over millions of years and guaranteed not to clog up the ecosystem”, Mycobond, is a new material that is being marketed by Ecovative Design as the green replacement for expanded polystyrene in protective packaging applications. The secret of the new material? Mycelium, the root structure of...