Metallica lasagna

University of Chicago boffins have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal.

Apparently, they are not penny dreadful

Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and British flexible-electronics manufacturer PragmatIC Semiconductor have made a plastic processor which costs less than a penny.

It isn't easy being green

Samsung says that it will begin replacing its plastic packaging with “environmentally sustainable elements” beginning this year.

Cutting production

Makers of metal cases for smartphones are giving up and are halting their expansion plans.

Case makers slash capacity

Makers of plastic casings for notebooks and cutting back on their manufacturing capacity as punters demand natty metal-alloy-chassis.