Manufacturing Global | January 2020

Welcome to the January issue of Manufacturing Global magazine.

Our cover star this month is developing sustainable packaging solutions capable of increasing revenue without impacting the environment. Huhtamaki’s Chi Lu, Head of Sourcing, Food Services in Asia and Oceania, insists: “In terms of changing from plastic to a more sustainable alternative, there is no challenge – it simply must be done.”

Pushing the boundaries for Industry 4.0, we learn how Fictiv is democratising access to manufacturing, and transforming the way hardware teams design, develop and deliver physical products, with a virtual distributed manufacturing platform. “Companies that had traditionally run their own factories or workshops, even for prototyping, are now looking at how they can reduce those capital costs and move that process beyond the company walls,” explains Mike Geyer, Head of Business Development at Fictiv.

Elsewhere in the issue, Euler Hermes (backed by Allianz) predicts trade and credit risk to give companies confidence in tomorrow. Its manufacturing specialist and Assistant Head of Risk Underwriting examines the last 12 months and charts the risks for manufacturing in his outlook for 2020.

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