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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To make take-out food packaging more sustainable, German company Vytal relies on artificial intelligence and algorithms. This is not only benefiting the restaurants, but also the customers and our environment.
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How to prevent paper liner residues from ending up in landfills? Materials In Works (MIW), a start-up based in Malaysia, lends a hand in combating global warming and environmental pollution, as it reinvents residual paper liner from the label packaging industry as recovered cellulose pulp.
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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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The best solution for products, consumers and for our environment is where dedicated companies are working on, focused on the total environmental footprint of each packaging. The big question is: How?
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The latest growth of paper wrapping has been remarkable and has led to some great investments, with many companies wanting to get involved. On the other side, many businesses that already claim to be involved, cannot back up those claims. With an evolving need for sustainability in the print industry, how is the transition handled by different companies?
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A research team from Cambridge University and the University of California San Diego has found a way to more effectively utilize the symbiosis of coral structures and microalgae, creating new light-harvesting approaches to cultivate algae. These developments could easily help preserving the ecosystem coral reef in the future.
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This week’s future links deal with a printer with zero impact on the environment, getting 3D printing more sustainable, 40 trees at 40th anniversary, the global attitudes toward paper and the project ‘thin air’.
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It is official: Delhi is the city with the world’s worst air pollution. More and more people using vehicles, the continuing growth of industrial areas and various other reasons lead to an increasing amount of smog released into the air. That is why Graviky Labs, a spin-off group of MIT Media Lab, launched Air-Ink last year. This invention converts exhausted gases into ink.
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