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What appears to be a hole in the sky is actually Barnard 68, a molecular cloud that lies about 500 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent-holder. This dark "Bok globule" is composed of dense clouds of dust and gas that appear opaque in the visible light spectrum. Using near-infrared imaging, astronomers at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered about 3,700 stars concealed behind the half a light year that B68 spans. About 1,000 of these are visible on the infrared spectrum.

Es war das erwartet schwere Spiel, am Ende setzte sich FASS Berlin aber gegen die Luchse Lauterbach mit 4:1 (2:1, 2:0, 0:0) durch und bleibt damit weiterhin ungeschlagener Tabellenführer der Regionalliga Ost. Lauterbach blieb gleich in Berlin und trat nach dem Sieg bei den Adlern beim ungeschlagenen Tabellenführer an. Trotz zuletzt guter Leistungen und dem Sieg vom Vortag waren die Luchse…

The following piece was written by Diana Alberghini, who holds a PhD in German Literature and an MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies. She currently works with Asylum Access, which strives to promote human rights for refugees through legal empowerment, policy reform and global systems change. The piece was originally published on the Refugee Law Initiative blog on 5 August 2020.

[...] For refugees all over the world, COVID-19 has brought many devastating consequences both in terms of their health but also for their ability to earn a livelihood. In many cases, refugees live in conditions where social distancing is impossible, water scarce and personal protection equipment inaccessible, which are further aggravated by a lack of access to health services and other fundamental rights, such as labor rights. The impact of the coronavirus crisis on refugee communities is being closely analysed and will continue to be in the near future, at least while its repercussions last. For instance, the World Bank–UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) has created a dedicated space for researchers and practitioners where they can collect and share research findings about the current pandemic. This blog post, however, aims to highlight some of the new opportunities COVID-19 has opened up which, if grasped and developed, could bring about radical changes in the refugee field and revolutionize the current concept of aid and how to provide it.

Nichrome India is India’s leading provider of integrated packaging solutions. A pioneer and market leader in flexible packaging machines for diverse applications, Nichrome is a company passionate about innovation to meet industry challenges, improve productivity and sustainability in packaging operations.

As a company that uses plastic for packaging, Nichrome is aware and concerned about the need to reduce and recycle plastic for a cleaner, greener world.

Nichrome has designed and launched a unique innovation to decrease the pouch length and thereby reduce the use of plastic in packaging pouches. Nichrome’s patented pouch length reduction kit RLO (repeat length optimization) can be installed as a retrofit on existing Nichrome machines, and helps to save 7 mm in pouch length of a 50 gm pouch and 10 mm in a 100 gm pouch.

The RLO also has a product settler with extended air removal pads that remove the air from the pouch without a pin prick. This makes the pouches less bulky, so customers save on secondary packaging and logistics.

The innovation is ideally suited for powder packaging and works well for all types of powdery and granular products such as Atta, Cake Mix, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Milk Powder, Agrochemicals, etc.

Advantages of Nichrome’s RLO

Reduction in pouch length min 5mm + saving in laminate film

Further reduction in Residual Air in the pouch

Clean horizontal seal, minimizes the chances of leakages due to product in seal

Savings in Secondary packaging and logistics

Avoids use of pin prick and hence extended shelf life of the product

This addition to the machine does not reduce the output

ROI of the unit is within a month of production

Innovation in action

Nichrome’s ROL patented pouch length reduction kit is installed at Shakti Masala and is also working wonders at Nani Agro. At Nani Agro, Nichrome demonstrated the new kit on a 1 kg spice bag and saved almost 10mm of pouch length. Calculated over a year of operations, this mounts to almost 4 tonnes of plastic saved!