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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Joost Vette from Delft University of Technology, figured out a way to use empty mussels for 3D printing. The material he developed is not only an eco-friendly alternative to plastics, but it is also realizable at home without special tools or hardware.
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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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Here comes a special edition of our future links featuring the latest news on green printing. Find out all about a book on sustainable printing plants, green printing partnerships, recyclable brand packaging, 3D printing treehouses and the importance of measuring real recycling rates.
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This week we could not talk about green printing methods without mentioning the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s biocompatible material made from apple waste, self-sufficient 3D-printed homes by PassivDom, the Center for Engineering Complex Tissues, HP’s Latex Inks and SAXOPRINT’s sustainable collective printing approach.
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As a fast growing city Dubai has recently announced that it aims to 3D print 25 percent of its buildings by 2030, so it is no surprise that the start-up Renca cooperated with Dubai Municipality to develop a 3D-printable cement made from industrial by-products.
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Researchers from Shandong University, the University of California, Riverside and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a UV light printable paper, which can be used by large-scale printers.
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Be it the launch of a new sustainability standard for textile printing or tips for eco-friendly printing: Our future links revolve around sustainable and eco-friendly solutions from the printing industry.
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This week, we could not talk about green and sustainable news from the printing industry without mentioning the world’s first 3D-printed bridge and its optimized use of raw materials, a special nanoparticle coating allowing to print on paper with light, a 3D-printed expansion turbine able to convert natural gas into electrical power, Siegwerk’s first-ever sustainability report and a new investigation into the direct 3D printing of PLA on fabrics.
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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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