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RSS plasticPlastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News People are spending more money with plastic cards than ever before, new research has revealed. According to figures from banking industry body Apacs, consumers spent a record level of £26.4bn per month via... [01 Aug 2006]
Plastic Manufacturer Uses Virtualization to Mold New Hardware Management
White Paper Master Molded Products (MMP), a 150-employee manufacturing company based in Elgin, Illinois, designs, engineers, and manufacturers custom value-added plastic products. According to Dodd, MMP's IT crew faced its most... [24 Mar 2008]
Blazepoint Plastic Card Printing Chosen by the Oracle
White Paper The Oracle approached Blazepoint with three very distinct requirements, which they wanted to meet from one plastic card printing solution. Secondly, The Oracle intended to implement a Visitor Management System using... [29 Sep 2004]
155 Mb/s Plastic Optical Fiber and Hard Polymer Clad Fiber PMD Specification
White Paper This specification describes the Physical Medium Dependent (PMD) sublayer for a 155.52 Mbps private User Network Interface (UNI) over Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) and Hard Polymer Clad Fiber (HPCF) cabling. [03 Jul 2008]
Pallet Rental Company Modernizes Shipping Industry With Plastic and RFID Tracking
White Paper Its innovative plastic pallets offer dramatic economic and environmental improvements over the 1 billion wood pallets in use in the United States. Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), based in Orlando, Florida, has... [30 May 2007]
Plasticos Castella Upgraded to a Knowledge-Based Mold Design System to Speed Delivery of Thin-Wall Plastic Containers
White Paper Plasticos Castella is one of the leading plastic injection molders in Spain. Plasticos Castella wanted to meet customers' requirements for faster product delivery and shrink mold design cycle. The challenge was to... [15 Jan 2008]
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. She said in a statement: "We are becoming increasingly reliant on our plastic cards... [12 May 2008]
Thales e-Security Select Blazepoint Plastic Card Solution
White Paper The main requirements were that the solution should provide highly flexible, reliable, on-demand plastic card printing on what could sometimes be extremely short lead times. The P420 printer from Eltron was selected by... [15 Feb 2005]
Online shoppers think plastic is fantastic for Xmas
News This is around three times as many as their counterparts willing to pay with plastic in Germany and the UK, and brings the average of online consumers using credit cards over Christmas to 41 per cent. [14 Nov 2007]
Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards
News What's important about plastic is the payments infrastructure it has created - it doesn't matter if a purchase is made on a mobile phone, over the internet or wirelessly in a shop - your flexible friend is at its heart. [04 Jul 2006]
Reliability Considerations for Using Plastic-Encapsulated Microcircuits in Military Applications
White Paper The quality and reliability of plastic-encapsulated microcircuits (PEMs) manufactured today are closely equivalent, and in some ways superior, to their hermetic counterparts. The key to reliable use of PEMs in military... [25 Feb 2004]
MasterCard launches pay-as-you-go plastic
News MasterCard has released a pay-as-you-go plastic card for people with no bank accounts who want to make internet and phone payments. The card, which requires no credit checks to obtain, is interest free and allows the... [23 Sep 2005]
Polysack Plastic Industries Manages Global Enterprise and Growth With Integrated IT Environment
White Paper Established in 1974 to develop technologies to battle the negative effects of the sun, Polysack Plastic Industries Ltd.produces and develops ultra-violet-resistant nets and thermal screens for agriculture. [11 Jul 2007]
Radio Frequency Indentification Tags for Tracking Plastic Pallets and Reusable Containers
White Paper A major challenge in incorporating plastic pallets and RPCs into the supply chain has been tracking them throughout the entire cycle, allowing pallet and RPC providers complete visibility to track their containers - from... [17 Jun 2004]
MySAP ERP and SAP for Automotive Improve Operations at Yangzhou YAPP Auto Plastic Parts Company
White Paper Founded in 1988, Yangzhou YAPP Auto Plastic Parts Co. Ltd. YAPP) is China's largest supplier of automotive fuel systems. Now that China has joined the World Trade Organization, its volatile auto industry faces intense... [04 Apr 2007]
