WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA—ASTM International’s committee on additive manufacturing technologies is developing a standard for mechanical testing of additive-manufactured plastics.

NORTHBROOK, IL—A new standard addresses the indoor air pollution risks associated with additive manufacturing.

LOS ANGELES—Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a way to weld an aluminum alloy that was difficult to join in the past.

ORWIGSBURG, PA–Clearly Clean Products LLC recently announced that it is expanding its North American footprint by renovating and reopening an 80,000-square-foot thermoforming plant in Frackville, PA, to manufacture recyclable food trays.

FAIRFIELD, NJ—Jacket Media Co. will be incorporating a new series, Manufacturing Tomorrow, into its nationally recognized podcast, Manufacturing Talk Radio, which has aired since November 2013. Manufacturing Tomorrow is a podcast series by the Ohio Manufacturing Institute at Ohio State University.

GAITHERSBURG, MD—Created by a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an advanced filtering material can extract the key ingredient in the most common form of plastic from a mixture of other chemicals while consuming far less energy than usual.