De-inkable ink wins a packaging award, CD revenue jumps +58.6%, volcanic ash shuts Jakarta flights — plus seven more stories | BPJ News (Evening Edition)
Recycling-by-design is moving into ink formulations, physical media is returning in hard numbers, and logistics is being shaken by nature and geopolitics at the same time.
In Germany, an ink design engineered to be easier to de-ink was recognized with a major packaging award. Elsewhere, the rebound in CD sales, new expectations for AI disclosure, and widening logistics uncertainty are quietly reshaping pricing and day-to-day operations on printing and manufacturing floors.
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Rights and audit questions have now dropped all the way into shop-floor workflows. The OpenAI “Wiki” incident and new lawsuits from publishers are pushing the use of generative AI into a matter of deliverables, logs, and permission design. At the same time, final wage tallies and consumer awareness surveys are updating the assumptions behind price negotiations and route-to-market design. In finance, Agricultural Bank of China’s planned capital increase could change the…
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