Pioneers of the closed-cell sleeping pad, Therm-a-Rest has always excelled at designing pads that deliver excellent weight-to-warmth ratio but not necessarily a whole lot of loft. Well, all that comes ...

Slow but steady growth in the use of 3D printed concrete in construction brings in new firms and users, as the nascent industry finds the right market niches for a continually evolving technology.

Dutch company Pretty Plastic has produced tiles for facades roofs using a notoriously hard-to-recycle material: PVC from post-consumer construction waste.