The printing segment has always been coping with supply chain pressures. With energy prices now skyrocketing, the industry is facing a new challenge. The shortage of paper in Europe has caused mill shutdowns and curtailments and some businesses are even on the verge of closing. How is the sector grappling with the energy crisis and other industry challenges?
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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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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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Mono-material coffee bags, thermoformed paper-based food trays: Packaging experts have been getting ready to step into the circular economy. But besides optimizing recyclability and balancing packaging function, producibility or logistics, there is a lot more that goes along with meeting the circular regulatory framework.
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New ideas for sustainable materials are sprouting up like flowers in spring. One example of an alternative to conventional paper is pollen-based paper made from sunflowers, which can be reused several times thanks to a unique unprinting method.
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Every year between the beginning of April and the end of June the asparagus season begins. But only half of the world's asparagus production is used as food. Therefore, a research team from Munich University of Applied Sciences has been formed to try to address this issue.
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When printing aqueous solutions on paper, a reaction, which can be used to program motion, occurs. A research team from SIT and Waseda University recently took advantage of this and presented a method allowing paper to self‐fold without deriving energy from external sources.
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A team of engineers from Purdue University, Indiana, developed an innovative printing technology, transforming simple paper into the first wireless human-machine interface.
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The trend topic of environmentally conscious packaging material is now becoming increasingly relevant even for large companies. Using paper as packaging material is the latest trend.
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