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

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Because the plastic-molding and assembly lines are near each other, Flextronics can turn resin into a camera in less than eight hours.

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Because the plastic-molding and assembly lines are near each other, Flextronics can turn resin into a camera in fewer than eight hours.

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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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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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After enhancing its reactivity, cardanol is chemically bonded with cellulose, which produces a durable thermo-plastic that is strong, heat resistant, water resistant and non-crystalline (short molding time), due to the bonded cardanol's unique molecular structure consisting of flexible and rigid parts.

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