Fraunhofer IZM and the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin have opened a unique open innovation lab for prototyping textile electronics. Fitted with the latest in high-tech equipment and machines, the Textile Prototyping Lab (TPL) can turn e-textile visions into real fabrics and garments with its interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists.
Global software, technology and engineering leader Emerson (St. Louis, Missouri) is collaborating with S&P 100 consumer products manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive to reduce wasted energy in Colgate’s product packaging facilities and contribute to its goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions in operations by 2040. Armed with data from Emerson’s advanced sensor technologies and analytics, Colgate has already seen a 15% reduction in energy usage on several toothpaste and toothbrush packaging lines and expects even greater energy savings as the technology is rolled out more widely.
It was 70 years ago, on 1 October 1951, that Margarete and Theodor Schreiner founded Schreiner Group, then called "M. Schreiner - Spezialfabrik für geprägte Siegelmarken und Etiketten". A lot has happened since then. The garage business of those days has long since grown into an international high-tech company.
