Black polyethylene mulching involves the plants growing through holes in plastic sheets that cover the soil.
With sales way up, the company expanded into fertilizers, plastic sheets, food processing and solar water heaters.
Pigment in millions of bubbles moving around in this way create the images of letters that can be displayed on flexible plastic sheets.
There is a shortfall of 170, 000 high quality plastic sheets needed to improve protection from rain and snow in tents not designed to withstand the cold.
When the shipment arrived at Expeditors' warehouse in Hong Kong, staff reassembled the cargo into airplane-ready units, enclosing each batch in plywood boards, plastic sheets and netting.
When the shipment arrived at Expeditors' warehouse in Hong Kong, staff reassembled the cargo into airplane-ready units, surrounding each batch with plywood boards, plastic sheets and netting.
Instead, the carbon fibre is shipped to SGL Automotive's German factory in Wackersdorf, where a thermoplastic material is injected to bind them together into reinforced plastic sheets.
It uses simple plastic sheets with arrays of holes, and could be put to use in making ships invisible to sonar or in acoustic design of concert halls.
This month Ford is putting ads for its Flex crossover SUV on multicolored E Ink-made plastic sheets that will go on the cover of 100, 000 newsstand issues of Esquire, the Hearst magazine.
The installation, currently housed at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing, layers 12 of its component clear plastic sheets to create a roughly one-foot deep display that plays a simple pre-drawn animation.
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According to author Billy Ingram, perhaps the world's leading Winky Dink authority, many children who didn't own the plastic sheets simply took crayons they had around the house and, on Winky Dink's cue, drew directly on the glass screens of their parents' expensive first-generation television sets.
It works by using stacked sheets of plastic with regular arrays of holes through them.
By replacing the glass sheets with plastic, Rolltronics plans to manufacture a flexible version of this memory using a roll-to-roll process.
Hairy-vetch mulch does all of those things, too, but using it is not as convenient as laying down a few sheets of plastic, and is more expensive.
Lang began the meeting by tossing a few sheets of what looked like plastic on the table.
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