Overnight samples aren’t just for designers anymore. Last month, Material Bank quietly debuted its long-rumored consumer-facing platform, DesignShop. The site—with its browsable library of materials ...

Systematic, well-designed, and implementable research is the most effective way to solve many problems facing state departments of transportation (DOTs) administrators and engineers. Often, highway ...

The copper producer says its new system in Hamburg, Germany, will assess the metals content of electronic scrap, spent catalysts and other materials. Aurubis says its new automated process cuts the ...

Material selection is seldom as easy as pulling an available tube from the stock room. Good sample transport system design incorporates various factors in material selection. These include surface ...

Collecting samples for a project can present a huge time loss for design professionals. To solve this, Swatchbox is out on a mission to help design professionals around the world, by offering a ...

This story has been updated to show robots at Material Bank can handle up to 8 orders. Five miles east from the FedEx Express World Hub is another hub that aims to break new ground. While FedEx ...