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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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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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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Usually, concrete is created from a mixture of water, cement and aggregates such as sand. Scientists at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and Brunel University have developed a way of turning 3D printing concrete into a more sustainable, robust building material by using recycled glass.
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Martin Thuo and his team from the Iowa State University have developed a new heat-free technology for flexible electronics. It can be manufactured without damaging the base material and is also suitable for paper.
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Normally, you would think that a common office printer has no other purpose than printing documents. What sounded utopian at first has now become reality: For the first time, Dr. Mohammad Haider, Electrical and Computer Engineer of UAB Research Labs in Birmingham, makes office printers print circuits from anywhere, even from home.
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Counterfeiting of important documents is an ongoing problem and is getting more and more simple. Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have therefore invented a new anti-counterfeiting technology that uses 3D-printed holograms.
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The logistics company DHL partnered up with the French-Polish company Blulog to optimize supply chain processes with the help of
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The area of 3D printing is still dominated by men. Nevertheless, many women are very successful in this business and developed great inventions for the field of 3D printing.
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Cadel Deinking, a Spanish start-up, invented a new technology to deink various plastics before they are recycled. The innovative method can be applied to all plastic materials and is completely free of solvents and other hazardous chemicals.
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