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Editorial<br />
dear<br />
readers<br />
Loyal, long time readers of bioplastics MAGAZINE have already learned<br />
some details of my private life. Well here comes another bit. For about 30<br />
years I’ve been a keen glove-puppet puppeteer. So it is no surprise that one<br />
of my colleagues in that hobby would eventually end up being our cover girl.<br />
May I introduce to you Miss Schniedermeyer (our gossip-monger)? And as<br />
3D printing is one of our editorial highlights in this issue, we tried to clone<br />
Miss Schniedermeyer on a 3D printer, using free open source software tools<br />
and a wood-filled material (see page 21).<br />
In many of the articles about 3D printing, the authors write about Fused<br />
Deposition Modelling mentioning the abbreviation FDM. I want to take the<br />
opportunity here to mention that FDM is a registered trademark of the<br />
company Stratasys Inc.<br />
The first of the other two editorial focus topics are Films, Flexibles, Bags<br />
with, among other articles, yet another comment on the European Bagislation<br />
development. The second one is Consumer and Office Electronics<br />
Initially it was planned to publish a comprehensive article on the basics of<br />
Sustainability: Brundtland and the forest industry having invented sustainability<br />
400 years ago, and so on. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to write that<br />
piece in time, so I’m grateful to Elevance for providing an article that in a<br />
way covers the basics, certainly from their point of view.<br />
And finally we’d like to draw your attention to two new conferences, that<br />
bioplastics MAGAZINE is hosting in 2015. In May we invite you to the first<br />
bio!PAC conference on biobased materials in packaging And in the autumn<br />
of next year we will be presenting the first bio!CAR conference on biobased<br />
materials in automotive applications We will be pleased to accept proposals<br />
for presentations for both events.<br />
Until then we hope you enjoy reading bioplastics MAGAZINE<br />
Sincerely yours<br />
Michael Thielen<br />
bioplastics MAGAZINE Vol. 9<br />
ISSN 1862-5258<br />
Highlights<br />
3D Printing | 16<br />
Films, Flexibles, Bags | 10<br />
Consumer & Office Electronics | 40<br />
November / December<br />
06 | 2014<br />
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