Amperfied Wallbox connect.home receives prestigious Red Dot Award for outstanding design

Sophisticated, modern design combines aesthetics and functionality
Focus on intuitive and simple user experience
New Amperfied connect series includes charging stations for home and business

Partnership aims to inspire fashion brands to move away from fossil materials and accelerates change for more sustainability in the industry: joint development of a fleece jacket made of bio-based polyester from forest biomass

UPM Biochemicals and VAUDE, a sustainable and innovative outdoor clothing supplier, will produce outerwear from bio-based chemicals and demonstrate that the textile industry can shift to renewable materials today.

More and more reuse and recycling schemes for beverage packaging are seen as efficient tools for reducing the environmental impact of packaging systems and for increasing their resource efficiency.
In this scenario, AROL REVERSE is becoming a must for all those bottlers looking for an effective response to unscrew pre-threaded plastic caps and threaded aluminium caps from glass and ref-pet bottles.

Brother Industries, Ltd. (President: Ichiro Sasaki) today announced that it has been selected as one of the top companies in the second "Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders" survey conducted jointly by Nikkei Asia—the English media arm of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun—and the UK's Financial Times, along with the German research firm Statista.

Jowat SE is recognized as Gold Standard winner of the Best Managed Companies Award for first time. For the fourth year running, the adhesive manufacturer from Detmold has been honored with the award for exceptional businesses.
Jowat SE has again been honored with the Best Managed Companies Award sponsored by Deloitte Private, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Federation of German Industries (BDI).

The butterfly effect theory is the idea that one small occurrence can significantly impact the world. Advanced materials from Alleima can contribute to innovative changes that help raise productivity, energy efficiency, and minimize environmental impact. In a global marketing campaign “900 ways to make a change” Alleima highlights how more than 900 advanced alloys can make a change globally.

Cost-effectiveness and efficiency have always been Arburg's guiding principles. Due to the huge price increases, the topic of energy in particular has rapidly gained in importance throughout Europe. This is one of the reasons why the machine manufacturer from Lossburg, Germany, launched its "Action Plan: Energy" in March 2023. The plan is based on individual energy consultations including energy measurements at the customer's premises. It highlights many specific options for optimising energy requirements throughout the entire production process, thereby significantly reducing costs in injection moulding production.

The new Digital Academy of the three consumer goods fairs under the umbrella of Messe Frankfurt celebrated its premiere yesterday: the kick-off of the new digital event series was dedicated to the theme of sustainability. Futurologist Anabel Ternès von Hattburg and communications expert Cornelia Kunze examined sustainability as a success factor for manufacturers and retailers from different perspectives.

The company selected five startups to tackle packaging industry challenges in North America and EMENA.

Leading global developer of inks and coatings, Flint Group, has outlined its plans to reduce its environmental impact under its new sustainability framework.

The company’s PRISM sustainability framework includes a range of targets such as circular economy product development, reducing operational impacts, and building a diverse workforce. Plans include Flint Group’s recent commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), with the company reducing carbon emissions in line with the 1.5°C scenario set out in the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is improving the soil of Finnish fields together with Soilfood by utilising the side stream fibre fractions created during paperboard production. What was once considered waste, is now effectively re-utilised into innovative soil improvement fibres. The result is a product that not only recycles the nutrients of wood fibre back into soil, but also stores the carbon of the wood into soil.

When the machines and systems are powered up and running again, furniture parts are produced in live demonstrations and innovations come to life – then you know it's LIGNA. The pandemic forced a four-year wait on exhibitors and visitors alike – now the world's leading trade fair for the woodworking and wood processing industry is finally taking place live again, and providing the opportunity for face-to-face contact and networking.