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MEDICA and COMPAMED 2026 reinforce their status as high-calibre community platforms with a new ticketing structure Premium tickets offer access to exclusive conferences and networking events – “Relevance counts, not size” With the launch of the online ticket shop for MEDICA and COMPAMED 2026 in Düsseldorf (16 to 19 November), the next phase of the transformation process has begun for both events. The leading international community platforms for the entire medical technology and healthcare industry ecosystem are not only expanding their programme to include exclusive, target-group-specific content, but are also introducing a new ticketing structure. “This underlines the clear quality…

Precision Metal Manufacturing: Reducing Waste for a Sustainable Future Jochen Kern, Head of Sales & Marketing, Micro Component Group Sustainability in manufacturing is often discussed in broad strokes, energy transition, circular economy, net-zero roadmaps. Yet for engineers and operations leaders, the decisive gains are frequently made in smaller, more practical places like yield, scrap rates, rework loops, and the number of process steps between raw material and a validated part. In precision metal components, those “small” levers can dominate the footprint, because tolerances are tight, materials are valuable, and downstream consequences of variation are expensive. TRADE-OFF IN PRECISION ENGINEERING Precision…

Huhtamaki (Elif) Achieves Continuous Production and Superior Film Quality with Nordson BKG Nordson Corporation, through its Polymer Processing Systems (PPS) division, today announced that Huhtamaki’s Elif division, a global leader in sustainable flexible packaging solutions, has successfully implemented Nordson’s BKG continuous melt filtration technology to improve blown-film production performance while increasing the use of recycled materials. As part of its sustainability strategy, Elif set out to increase recycled content in its polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) blown-film applications. However, the variability typically associated with recycled feedstock created significant processing challenges on its extrusion line operating at 350 kg/h. The company…