Insole manufacturing has a dirty secret. Behind every comfortable step lies a material with an outsized environmental footprint: EVA foam. It's light, flexible, and devastatingly wasteful. Across the UK, 57 companies each produce around 40,000 insoles a year. That’s 2.28 million insoles annually, most made from expanded EVA. EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate) is a soft, foamed plastic that’s easy to shape and cheap to buy. But it comes with a big problem: it doesn't break down. Tra

This was the typical response I would get as a junior from my old machinist when I asked him to hold some exotic design straight off the 3D printer. He came from an era when CNC was still a buzzword, and engineers prided themselves on reading analogue micrometers with precision.   The grimace on his face when I would hand over something that resembled a twisted steel pretzel and ask him to machine it. These days, I can picture him bursting a blood vessel trying to figure out

Fyous will premiere the PolyMorphic 28k, which uses densely packed pins to create custom moulds in minutes, at Formnext in Germany in November Inventors of a revolutionary new high-speed mould-making technology, which uses a pin tool with 28,000 pins to create a mould in around twenty minutes, have announced they will be unveiling it to the world for the first time on November 19 th  at Formnext in Frankfurt, Germany. The PolyMorphic 28k consists of the pin tool plus a formin