The company uses resin, aluminum and plastic injection molding to help designers see their products come to life.

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It is already competitive with plastic injection-moulding for runs of around 1, 000 items, and this figure will rise as the technology matures.

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"Liquidmetal allows precision parts to be fabricated similar to plastic injection molding, but with similar properties to metal, " IHS senior principal analyst Kevin Keller said.

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Pylantis makes a new plastic using plants, clay and other material, developed over more than 10 years by Michio Komatsu, a pioneer in plastic injection molding.

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Becton uses so much plastic producing its disposable injection products that margins can suffer when rising oil prices boost plastic resin costs.

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The carving out of interior space involves extensive use of super-thin injection-molded plastic pieces on the dash and doors, without much of anything behind them, as well as seats thinner than a jailhouse mattress.

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To make dies capable of pressing tiny, intricate patterns onto the threads, LeVey had to borrow a technology often used to create injection molds for detailed plastic parts.

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When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.

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