Dow Chemical Co. started selling a new plastic last year, the first novel version of polypropylene in 30 years.
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Aeon Credit Card in Hong Kong introduced a Hello Kitty plastic last year.
Poisson wants to take on those plastic presents of last resort: gift cards.
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Last week Plastic Logic announced that it will never sell a Que e-reader.
Last May, Plastic Logic demonstrated a paper-like flexible screen capable of playing video in colour, which is achieved by placing a filter on top of the original black-and-white display.
However, 98 tonnes of plastic was sent to Hong Kong last year, it said.
By contrast, the colour of a Smart Car, made by DaimlerChrysler, is decided almost at the last minute, when plastic panels are clipped on to the sides.
Last week, having had plastic 20-peso notes since 2002, Mexico decided to issue its 50-peso note in plastic too.
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Last year ITW introduced a plastic fastener that it calls the BosScrew.
Wrapped loosely in a tea towel and placed in an open plastic bag, a fresh bunch should last about a week in the refrigerator.
In their excellent new book, How Capitalism Will Save Us, Forbes Chairman Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames note that demand for mostly elective plastic surgery has rocketed sixfold in the last 15 years.
It masked the Galaxy S III ahead of its reveal last year in a blockier plastic frame and it could be that this phone, with a very Note-esque face and outline, is also a filler ahead of the final reveal.
Last year's statistics showed plastic surgery continuing to grow at unprecedented rates.
Meanwhile the Conservatives have released official figures which indicate that government departments and agencies have bought more than 1.2 million plastic bags branded with their logos over the last two years.
Plastic surgeon Vennegaard Kalialis, who detailed his case last year in Melanoma Research, doubts it was the vitamins.
Leingruber first demoed the generator at a performance last March, where he actually printed plastic identity cards for visitors at a Berlin art gallery.
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Plastic found during Beachwatch surveys has doubled in the last decade.
Last week, doctors at the Jaipur hospital conducted plastic surgery to repair the infant's nose, cheek and upper lip.
When I spoke on the phone with his mother, Amylynne Santiago Volker, last night, Nic was running around with a plastic sword.
We talked about the handset's delightful zero-gap aluminum and plastic unibody and how HTC wanted to "break down that last barrier" of integrating antennae in a metal casing without making compromises.
Former Dallas star Victoria Principal learned that lesson the hard way following her divorce last year from her husband of 21 years, Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Harry Glassman.
Early last year rumors swirled that Samsung was working on handsets with a plastic-based OLED screen folded over the sides.
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But they exert a voodoo power over politicians: last month the Daily Mail ran a campaign urging tighter controls on the use of plastic bags and Mr Brown instantly signed up.
Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
Government sources told CNN several vials and a plastic box with two holes similar to something used in lab work was found in a search of one pond last December.
According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there were over 750, 000 cosmetic procedures performed on men in the U.S. last year alone, representing around 8% of all procedures.
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Last week a foreign student in Cambridge showed me his residence permit for the UK, the bit of plastic, plus biometric chip, that was to be the prototype for the ID cards that everyone was threatened with - but is now issued only to visa holders.
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