Designing and creating effective packaging solutions is usually a fairly fragmented process with different kinds of software being used at different stages from creation to production. This can lead to inefficiencies and unnecessary costs. Often, design flaws only become obvious fairly late in the process. Software maker Creative Edge has now developed a solution that addresses these issues.
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While large companies like GE can afford to build their own 3D printing facilities, small and medium-size companies are often reluctant to take the risk. For good reasons: The technology is still developing and today’s state-of-the-art printers may be out-of-date a few years from now. Additively.com wants to connect 3D printing service providers with SMEs who are in need of rapid prototyping or small series production.
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Covestro is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-tech polymer materials. Their products and application solutions can be found in many areas of modern life. Innovation and sustainability drive the company to constantly new developments – both in its products and in its processes and plants. Now the company is also dedicating itself to 3D printing.
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Researchers and engineers in America are constantly developing and thus opening new possibilities for three dimensional printing – and it goes beyond creating machinery parts for the industry.
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COVID-19 is bringing countries all around the world to a hold. It’s not just the virus itself that has healthcare professionals worried but rather the lack of medical instruments. A local Park Lake business has experimented to approach the healthcare crisis with the help of 3D printing.
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In this edition of Pioneers of Printing we focus on the ground-breaking achievements of Charles “Chuck” Hull. His success story of the “father of 3D printing” shaped the print industry forever. Nowadays, 3D printing is playing an important part in the future of our industry, manufacturing and medical printing.
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In 2018, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart has launched their English-language Print Media Technologies program in an effort to get more high-school graduates into the international printing industry.
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Gummy bears are popular sweets. People have them in offices, at home or in cinemas as a little snack. But now you can also find them at laboratories. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered a new use for them: bearing microelectrode arrays.
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Today our news roundup from the printing industry covers Stratasys’ partnership with Science Center Singapore, adidas new shoes printed with ocean plastic, the commercial success of Canon’s imagePRESS C800/C700 series, the expected growth of the sustainable packaging market, a massive industrial printer being funded on Kickstarter, packaging with natural extracts and PPB’s new aluminum composite material.
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Here are our daily links with the most important news from the printing industry. Today they feature a profile of the company 3D Platform, the Print Media Management Specialist Conferences, five packaging ideas for the future, HP’s collaboration with KBA on corrugated packaging, an experts’ warning about 3D printed skin, the revised EU proposal for the circular economy, Veuve Clicquot’s eco-friendly packaging and Pantone’s color of the year 2016.
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