Zero Waste Lab Turns Plastic Waste into Multi-Functional Furniture
The Print Your City initiative has helped residents of Thessaloniki, Greece turn their plastic waste into beautiful urban furniture using 3D printing technology.
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From Printing Roses to Flat-Pack Furniture
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Morphing Matter Lab decided to use warpage to their advantage and create 4D-printed objects with it. In the future, this technology might enable flat-pack furniture manufacturers to easily ship large pieces of furniture and revolutionise the industry.
Continue ReadingPrint Your Future Furniture in this Pop-Up Shop
In an attempt to make unique furniture more sustainable and affordable, Print the Future opened a pop-up store selling 3D-printed furniture. Now, they are looking to turn said store permanent.
Continue ReadingFuture Links CW 27: Furniture Printing Edition
In this week’s future links it is all about 3D-printed furniture. Exciting examples, benefits of 3D-printed furniture, the combination of 3D printing with traditional craftsmanship and 3D printed parts for plane interiors.
Continue ReadingSatisfied Exhibitors and Visitors at K 2022’s Circular Economy Forum
At the Circular Economy Forum held as part of this year's world-leading trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, K 2022, mechanical and plant engineering companies presented their technical innovations for integrating the circular economy into this industry. The platform was an inspiring example of how this important future topic can be given a stage – exhibitors and visitors agreed on this.
Continue Reading3D Printed Meatballs Are Served at IKEA’s Job Interview
There can be no doubt that meatballs at IKEA are as iconic as the world’s largest furniture retailer on its own. The Swedish home furnishing company has just launched its recruitment campaign “Taste the Future“ and thereby it is scouting data scientists, software developers and engineers by inviting them over to have 3D printed meatballs. The question on everybody’s lips is why IKEA started to 3D print the meatballs. What is the connection between plant-based meat in the shape of a ball and a job interview?
Continue Reading3D Printing Wooden Objects From Byproducts of The Wood Industry
Every time trees are cut down, byproducts are created. For a long time, they were regarded as pure waste, yet they could benefit the printing industry. Thinking outside the box, a possibility presents itself: Many trees could be saved, if wooden objects would be printed from byproducts.
Continue ReadingHow bio-bean Makes Coffee Ground Into a Sustainable Raw Material
In order to further process the normally unused waste product coffee grounds, the coffee recycling company bio-bean has invented the material Inficaf. This recycled waste product processes coffee grounds, which in turn can be reused in many ways and used as a sustainable alternative material.
Continue ReadingACTEGA Provides Sustainable Options in The Printing Industry
ACTEGA has been focusing on sustainability in many of their products and in the past month they have again demonstrated what sustainable printing options can look like. Introducing a new environment-friendly label decorating process for a clean ‘no label’ look and new silver coatings as an alternative to foil stamping and metalized board, has shown their seriousness towards renewable printing methods.
Continue Readingdrupa Essentials of Print: Ron Gilboa
With our recurring drupa Essentials of Print series, we deliver a series of articles, from designers, brand owners, printers, converters, journalists and influencers, providing them with a platform to share their opinions on the latest developments of the print industry.
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