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Article: Award-winning designs put plastics front & center.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- August 10, 2009
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Byline: Roger Renstrom
The use of polymer resins helped numerous products including advanced medical devices, double-color injection molded consumer electronics and an amphibious sport plane win 2009 International Design Excellence Awards.
Components in plastic appeared in numerous entries of gold winners in the annual contest, organized by the Industrial Designers Society of America in Dulles, Va., and sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine, Autodesk Inc. of San Rafael, Calif., and Target Corp. of Minneapolis.
Andrew Hartman headed a globally dispersed panel of 20 designers and evaluators who judged 1,631 entries from 37 countries to select the ...