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Medical packaging: 6 production phases

11.08.2025

How does an initial idea become safe medical packaging? This article provides an overview of the production process.
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SCHOTT AG

Schott AG – 140 years of innovation

21.08.2024

Schott AG is one of the most important technology groups for the manufacture of specialty glass and glass-ceramics.
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Suppliers focus on sustainability

17.06.2024

How do exhibitors contribute to the reusability of products and thus to a more sustainable product life cycle?
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Delta ModTech at COMPAMED 2023

14.11.2023

Design Engineer Mike Schehr, Delta ModTech, talks about the recent challenges and announces some news.
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Rimidolove

Sustainable materials and recycling

19.09.2023

Where are the difficulties and how can the the industry become more sustainable, despite strict safety regulations?
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces / Dr Felix Loeffler

Product safety: anti-counterfeiting through laser printing

15.06.2023

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) has developed a method that could make it more difficult to counterfeit products in the future. The new and patented method makes it possible to produce unique, non-copyable fluorescent patterns quickly, environmentally friendly and at low costs.
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Fraunhofer IAP

SmartID – Detect product piracy quickly

27.04.2023

In the SmartID project, scientists at Fraunhofer are developing a counterfeit-proof barcode system for authenticity verification simply by using a smartphone without accessing a database.
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