Greener Manufacturing


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A deeper look at different factors to consider when designing a greener part such as, material type and amount, embedded energy, life cycles, durability, weight and maintainability.

 

 

This video will look at different factors to consider when designing a greener part such as, material type and amount, embedded energy, life cycles, durability, weight and maintainability.

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View On-Demand our inspirON series, designed to fast-forward you through the growing urgency around sustainability, learn directly from global experts.


lifecycle analysis guide

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We teamed up with Design Council at their Design for Planet Festival to run a workshop for designers to explore how to use life cycle analysis to develop more sustainable products and solutions.  
This guide brings together the collective experience of the designers who took part. Identifying common problems and solutions.

Recycled design cube
Recycled design cube
Recycled design cube
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Are Recycled Injection Moulding Materials Right for you? Comparing recycled thermoplastics with traditional thermoplastics for injection Moulding.

In today’s world, where sustainability is a pressing global concern, the need for greener manufacturing practices has never been more crucial. In this blog we delve into the realm of recycled materials for injection moulding and explore their potential to replace their traditional counterparts.
We compare characteristics such as heat deflection, shrinkage, yield strength, and more.

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Lyfecycle Case Study

Protolabs helps sustainable plastic innovators Lyfecycle join the race for climate awareness at Extreme E.

Polymateria are British innovators and inventors of the world’s first self-destructing plastic technology. The company, which has been lauded by Prince Charles for their work in tackling plastic pollution, approached Protolabs for digital manufacturing support in raising awareness of the issue and their ground-breaking technology that could ultimately help solve it.

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Sustainability in general is something that’s probably a bit too weighty a topic to take on in a five-minute video. So, instead, we’re going to be taking a look at how sustainability relates to 3D printing as a technology, how it stacks up against other manufacturing methods and what shortcomings it might have.

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