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Wan-Ifra: South China Morning Post leads winners at 20th Asian Media Awards

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Now in their 20th year, Wan-Ifra’s Asian Media Awards aim to promote the highest publishing standards in the fields of newspaper and magazine design, infographics, editorial content, marketing, community service, revenue diversification and photojournalism. Several major Asian news publishers won big at this year’s Wan-Ifra's Asian Media Awards. They are among the 34 media companies from 9 countries that took in this year's competition. South China Morning Post - 9 awards Magazine Cover Design - Gold, Silver Breaking News Article - Gold, Silver Feature Article - Silver Covid-19 Reporting - Silver Newspaper Infographics - Gold. Silver, Bronze India Today Group - 5 awards News Photography - Gold, Silver Feature Photography - Gold, Bronze Covid-19 related Photography - Silver Nikkei Inc. - 4 awards Magazine Cover Design - Bronze Feature Article - Gold Covid-19 Reporting - Gold, Bronze Kompas Daily Newspaper - 3 awards Newspaper Front Page Design - Gold Covid-19 related Photog...

SIG helps food and beverage manufacturers with its R-CAM 2 solution

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  With R-CAM 2 , SIG developed a new, fully automated sleeve magazine designed to work with all filling machines in its current machine portfolio. With this latest solution, it enables food and beverage manufacturers to increase workflow efficiency while reducing the manual labor they require. Consequently, this means manufacturers can more easily develop fully automated filling plants – and keep up with growing consumer demands and advances within connectivity and digitalization. In an ongoing bid to help manufacturers stay competitive and keep up with a constantly evolving industry, the company is committed to designing and building filling machines that streamline every stage of their production process. R-CAM 2 is one of SIG’s solutions that enables the company to meet this demand in the market. Stefan Mergel , Senior Product Manager Equipment at the company: “With this next-generation sleeve magazine, SIG created a highly robust, stable and reliable solution that is designe...

Print on demand makes Publishing Industry environment-friendly and cheaper

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  One of the UK’s leading print-on-demand companies believes the service should be embraced by publishers wanting to drive down costs and lower their environmental footprint. Prime , part of the Precision Proco Group , has cornered the market in its fully automated print-on-demand system , which customers across various sectors have widely embraced. And now the company believes it is a model that should be adopted by the publishing world, allowing it not just to produce the books it needs and to be able to restock quickly if needed but also to ship directly to the customer. An estimated 77 million books are pulped each year in the UK alone, and while in some cases this is recycled, a proportion is destroyed or discarded. Tolley highlights the benefits of print on demand Jon Tolley , Chief Innovation Officer at Precision Proco Group, believes that waste could be slashed with no adverse effects to the customer by simply utilizing what print on demand has to offer. “Despite being ab...

Editors Guild of India hosts webinar on pandemic coverage in mass media

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  The Editors Guild of India organized a webinar titled “Covering the pandemic: challenges and roadblocks” on 17 July 2021. The webinar was live-streamed on the official Facebook page of the Guild. The webinar saw discussions on how the Covid-19 pandemic created a set of never-seen-before challenges for the media when many reporters compromised their personal safety to report the truth to its readers/viewers. The webinar was moderated by Seema Mustafa, president, Editors Guild of India . K N Hari Kumar, former editor-in-chief, Deccan Herald ; Om Gaur, national editor, Dainik Bhaskar ; Tanushree Pandey, correspondent, India Today and AajTak ; Yogiraj Prabhune, health correspondent, Sakal and Praveen Jain, national photo editor, The Print . Dainik Bhaskar ’s editor, Om Gaur, who led the Hindi newspaper’s coverage of the pandemic including undercounting of the dead due to the virus, claimed that his publication faced obstacles from the government at every stage after they broke the ...

Xaar’s 1003 for Meta Additive’s metal & ceramic 3D printing

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  Cambridge, 19 July 2021, the reliability and performance of Xaar ’s printheads are proving key for another UK cutting edge jetting provider, Meta Additive, as it revolutionizes additive manufacturing in volume metal and ceramic 3D printing (M3DP). The collaborative approach between both businesses began in 2020 after Meta Additive had experienced difficulties sourcing printheads with sufficient capacity to deliver the performance required for its novel chemical approach to 3D printing, enabling the tailoring of materials at the molecular level. Following a meeting with Xaar and Meta Additive ’s CTO, Kate Black, a Xaar 1003 printhead was selected and supplied in under four weeks despite lockdown conditions. The application was up and running immediately. The wide operating window and unique technologies within the Xaar 1003 printhead enabled Meta Additive to use various fluids that had previously been seen as too difficult to jet. Xaar’s printhead architecture and unique TF techno...