Plastics Design & Moulding, PDM, is a trade show for the UK plastic industry, as well as the design and engineering community. For the fourth year running, we designed and curated the Design Resource Centre at the show, which took place 19 – 21 May. Split into two separate installations, the Design Resource Centre featured innovative products, technologies and materials from the consumer products and packaging area, and medical design.
The medical installation featured an ingenious device for minimally intrusive surgery using materials from Ticona, hydrogel-based bandages from Archimed and an insulin pen and asthma inhaler designed by UK-based design consultancy IDC for the Indian market using streamlined manufacturing processes and clever material selection.
The consumer products and packaging exhibition featured the Electrolux Ultra Silencer Green, roughly 40% quieter than comparable vacuum cleaners and made with recycled car parts, Tom Dixon’s ‘Fresh Fat’ bowl extruded by hand using Eastman’s Provista copolyester resin, and Sidel’s ‘NoBottle’ that uses a shape-memory polymer to reduce the amount of material used in plastic bottles by 25 to 40%.
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