The worldwide trend and shift towards alternative packaging materials signal how consumers are becoming more environment-conscious. How can material suppliers, machine manufacturers and packaging processors work together to ensure that we enter into a circular economy and where do we stand on the way to getting there from a global perspective?
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In recent years, 3D printing is experiencing a boom. While helping to design and create products faster than ever before, this technology also known as additive manufacturing is revolutionizing every field it enters. The result is that it is becoming more affordable. So, it has great potential in many areas – even when it comes to environmental issues.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is looking forward to an exciting future. Although it is going to entail many advantages, some experts are concerned about its environmental impact. After all, it will comprise more than 200 billion connected devices by 2021 resulting in a huge amount of e-waste due to the batteries needed in order to power them. But Finnish researchers are already searching for a solution.
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Environmentally friendly inks have been attracting a lot of attention in recent years and a myriad of solutions have come up. While many of the claims are true, a closer look at the environmental impact of green inks reveal a different picture.
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It can be said with confidence: Pigment manufacturers thrive on incorporating sustainable materials in their products as well as improving their manufacturing process. Ink World, the industry’s news and information provider, invited experts in the ink sector to share their sustainability goals as well as their knowledge revolving around pigments.
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Some printing industry sectors face greater challenges in saving resources than others. Software companies, for example, are part of this. In its Circular Competence series, the VDMA has shed light on how inspection systems can help in this endeavour and why that's important for customers, too.
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To meet the demands of today's world, the plant and mechanical engineering industry is gearing up their businesses for establishing a circular economy and higher levels of sustainability. But politics must also play its part to enable the industry to keep working on new solutions.
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In 2023, the print industry will remain affected by the impact of supply chain disruption, the energy crisis and general economic uncertainty. That is why it is even more important to focus resources on the development of certain branches of the print industry, that in return will help save resources in the future and simplify processes as well. Find out which 3 big topics the print industry should focus on and why right here!
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While the leading industrial nations have set themselves the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050, HEIDELBERG has made a self-commitment to become climate neutral by 2030. Find out how they plan to do so in this blog post.
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The year 2022 took us once around the world. At least almost, as the drupa team visited the USA, Brazil, Japan and Thailand and also toured Germany. Find out which great moments they experienced in this compilation of highlights from the last few months.
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