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  Additive manufacturing (AM) is changing the world. This disruptive, next-generation technology is helping to put more advanced rockets into space, revolutionizing design thinking for sustainability solutions and shaping jobs of the future. More than 60 speakers, including from Boeing, Siemens, McKinsey, Audi, and RWTH spoke at this year’s global industry event, the AMTC , to share their views on the journey of additive manufacturing. The opportunities to industrialize and grow advanced additive manufacturing have never been greater. Major global issues such as climate change, growing population, and the increasing consumer expectation for sophisticated personalized products mean that business leaders are looking for better and improved ways to produce and bring goods to market. Additive manufacturing is a technology that delivers both solutions and added opportunities to support a new generation of customer-centred products that maximize functionality and minimize waste. The opp...

  Last summer, Seiko Instruments decided to relocate its demo center and laboratory from France to Germany. After the forced break due to the Covid-19 restrictions, Seiko Instruments could finally open its new demo centre and laboratory in Neu-Isenburg, Germany at the end of July 2021. In Neu-Isenburg, near Frankfurt am Main, the company now has the optimal premises and equipment to be able to comprehensively demonstrate the diversity of its industrial inkjet solutions. Competent partners from the areas of ink development, drying and printing and integrators were selected to demonstrate a wide range of applications, to set up machine configurations that give visitors an insight into the extensive potential of industrial inkjet printing based on the high-performance Seiko Instruments printheads. The company invited visitors to its Open Week at the new demo center, where, together with its partners, it extensively discussed the facets and possibilities of industrial inkjet printing...

  Fespa Global Print Expo was one of the first international events suffering from multiple cancellations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. This past week, at the RAI Expo Center in Amsterdam, its organizers were the first to reinstate a physical show that has been overdue for almost two years. Two years – that left their marks on the exhibition industry worldwide, and, in a nutshell, Fespa showed us that nothing will ever be the same again in this business. It is increasingly difficult for large international exhibitions to assemble a comprehensive range of participants, and the pandemic only served as a catalyst, limiting their involvement to an extent that will hardly change once the actual pandemic may reach its end. Neverthelesss, with all the restrictions and sanitary precautions in place, Fespa managed to stage a compact four-day show in four halls, bringing together 200 exhibitors in its digital, textile and screen printing areas and 30 exhibitors in the ancillary Euro...

  In its announcement datelined Oslo, 8 October 2021,  The Norwegian Nobel Committee  has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. Ms Ressa and Mr Muratov are receiving the Peace Prize for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. At the same time, they are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions. Maria Ressa uses freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines. In 2012, she co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism, which she still heads. As a journalist and the Rappler’s CEO, Ressa has shown herself to be a fearless defender of freedom of expres...

  UFlex , India’s largest flexible packaging company and a global polymer sciences player, announced on 27 September 2021 its partnership with Mespack , an international manufacturer of flexible packaging, end-of-line, and soluble pods equipment for consumer-packaged goods. A press release issued from Noida, India, and Barcelona, Spain, states that the partnership includes Hoffer Plastics , an innovator in the custom injection molding industry, to develop a sustainable solution that will ease some of the complexities of recycling hot-fill pouches for global food brands. The press release states that the three companies have jointly developed a turnkey solution that enables 100% recyclability of hot fill pouches. In addition, with its new mono-polymer structure and the spout caps, the solution brings many ecologically responsible brands closer to achieving their sustainability goals. Hot-fill pouches are used to pack ready-to-eat and cook foods and ingredients, allowing the sterile...