The process turns digital models on computer screens into three-dimensional solid objects using plastics and other materials.

WSJ: Public-private partnership pushes '3-D printing'

In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out GE for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.

FORBES: Chemical transformation

In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out General Electric for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.

FORBES: Chemical Transformation

Now pubs not using plastics on busy nights would face a fast track review of licensing conditions which force their use full time, police said.

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The bottom line is that the researchers can produce high-precision materials using the same methods that plastics are produced.

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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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Using an instrument similar to the scanning bar-code guns at supermarket checkouts, this machine analyses black plastics with a laser.

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