#Conductive Inks Market 2019

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Mexico Carbon Black Market Demand, Size and Growth Opportunity 2021-2025

The carbon black market in Mexico has become an integral part of the country's modern automotive culture, revolutionizing the performance and longevity of tires. With carbon black reinforcement, tires now have the capability to travel significantly more miles compared to older tires, resulting in increased durability and reduced frequency of replacements. This transformation in the automotive industry has contributed to the remarkable growth of the carbon black market, which was valued at US$17.4 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach US$23.6 billion by 2025, with a healthy compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5% between 2021 and 2025, according to a recent study conducted by Fairfield Market Research.

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Carbon black, a fine black powder composed of elemental carbon, is primarily manufactured through the partial combustion and pyrolysis of low-value oil residues derived from coal or crude oils. The furnace black process accounts for over 95% of carbon black production globally. Its versatile properties make it a vital element in the production of numerous products used in everyday life, particularly those requiring a strong and deep black color. Carbon black is commonly used as a reinforcement agent in rubber and non-rubber applications, as well as a pigment, conductive or insulating agent, rheology modifier, and UV stabilizer.

Tires represent a key consumer segment in the global carbon black market, with the tire industry alone accounting for over 70% of the global demand in 2019. In Mexico, the increasing disposable incomes and expanding economic activities have led to higher vehicle ownership rates and a surge in the demand for carbon black in the tire industry. The adoption of high-performance and premium tires, as well as tire pressure monitoring systems, has further bolstered this demand. Additionally, the growth of the transportation industry, including the rise of electric vehicles, shared transportation, and driverless technology, is expected to fuel the tire replacement market, providing lucrative opportunities for the carbon black market in Mexico.

Apart from tires, carbon black finds extensive usage in industrial rubber goods, including mechanical rubber goods (conveyor belts, hoses, gaskets, and seals) and automotive rubber parts (anti-vibration parts, sealant systems, wiper blades, and fascia). Specialty carbon black, a niche segment within the carbon black market, is witnessing significant growth due to its applications as a black pigmenting, conductive, and UV stabilizing agent in paints, printing ink toners, plastics, batteries, wires and cables, sealant systems, and solid carbons.

In Mexico, the dominance of the carbon black market is expected to continue in the Asia Pacific region, which accounted for over 60% of the global demand in 2019. The region benefits from lower production costs due to the availability of low-priced feedstock and lower labor rates. China, in particular, is the largest producer of carbon black globally, accounting for more than 40% of the total production.

While Europe is anticipated to exhibit stable demand for rubber and mechanical rubber goods carbon black, the region is experiencing rising demand for specialty carbon black, particularly in the form of conductive additives for paints, plastics, inks, and electric vehicle batteries. Specialty carbon black plays a crucial role in supporting the EU's "Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy," which aims to have 30 million electric vehicles on the roads by the end of the decade.

To meet sustainability goals and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, companies in the carbon black market are actively focusing on cleaner and renewable sources for production. Technological advancements and the integration of renewable energy into the production process are becoming key priorities for industry players. Monolith Materials, for example, has announced significant investments in its carbon black production, utilizing proprietary technology to convert natural gas into carbon black while reducing emissions by up to 1 million tons annually.

As the carbon black market continues to thrive and revolutionize the automotive industry, Mexico remains a significant player in this global phenomenon. With its strong demand for carbon black in tire manufacturing and the growing adoption of specialty carbon black, Mexico's market is poised for sustained growth and prosperity.

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Throwing Shade: The Art of Using Color to Study

A bit of a throwback (last year haha) but for my cognitive psychology class we had to make a blog post about our topic of choice, and mine won best in show! (I got 100% on it and I deserved it in full)

For anyone interested, the link is here for the full effect (colors and images I picked out myself :) ), but the full text will be under the cut- without the lovely graphics that it

ABSTRACT: Do you take your notes in color? Maybe you should start. Note taking is the one thing that remains constant throughout the years in education. Students will often take notes in color or draw in their margins, which not only makes note taking more fun, but it can help keep you engaged in the material, and retain the information you’re taking notes on!

Throwing Shade: The Art of Using Color to Study

Do you take your notes in color? Maybe you should start.

Note taking is the one thing that remains constant throughout the years in education. Your parents took notes, their parents took notes, your professors took notes from their professors who took notes. But, your notes don't have to be the same notes they’ve been taking all these years. Back in the day, students were stuck with sad, boring ink and pencils in the same three colors for generations. Why don’t we try something new? Nowadays, along with the invention of sparkly gel pens for the people who still write theirs in notebooks, many students have started to take notes on computers, which makes it even easier than ever before to introduce colors and graphics into your delightful shorthand. Not only does this make it more fun to take notes, but it also helps to keep you engaged, and even helps you remember the information you’re taking notes on.

What is memory?

Obviously, memory is what you remember, right? Simply put, yes, but there’s more to it than that- there always is, isn’t there? It involves keeping, finding, and using information about things we have experienced in some way before that moment, but is something you’re not currently experiencing (1). For example, I could ask you to remember what a field of corn looks like, smells like, or sounds like, and you could tell me without having to be standing in one right now. That’s memory.

Memory is a process with a lot of steps and a lot of mechanisms that we don’t entirely understand just yet, but we do know what kinds of things make your memory better. Namely, things that either grab your attention, or emotionally invest you in them (2). That’s why you remember that embarrassing thing you did five years ago (while you’re trying to sleep, every time), and can’t remember what you had for lunch last week. 

Emotion can be engaged by many things, but so can your attention. When you’re driving down the highway and the giant red McDonald’s billboard catches your eye, or when the “Ooh, something shiny!” reflex kicks in, something is grabbing your attention and forcing you to think about it. There are a few ways to grab someone’s attention in this manner, but the best way? Nothing can grab someone like a striking color palette.

Coloring Your Attention

Color catches your (visual) attention better than any other visual stimuli, because it takes the least amount of effort to perceive (3). Then, the longer you look at that stimulus, the longer it has to imprint on your short term memory. That visual information worms its way quickly into the long term memory after the prolonged exposure. This is why marketing is often very colorful, with lots of moving shapes and textures, and loud, ranging sounds. They want your attention more than anything else, so you remember their name or product better than the competition.

But, I can definitely hear you asking me, what does this have to do with me as a student? Doesn’t that just mean the powerpoint I’m reading off of should be in kaleidoscope colors? Yes, it should. But more specifically to you as the student, color is a form of creative expression that you can use to enhance your memory.

Being Creative With Your Memory

Being creative during class, especially when taking notes, keeps you engaged and interested in the material, and this will make it stick in your memory longer than if you were just copying information down as you hear it (4). But not everyone can make masterpieces in the margins of their notebooks, now can they?

Well, adding color to your notes is a form of creative expression that anyone can participate in, no matter how creative or creatively skilled they are. You can’t even draw a stick figure? That’s okay, you don’t need to! Instead, try switching colors in between each topic, and if you want to go a step further, make color patterns with them outside of just the plain rainbow. As long as you are expressing yourself in a creative manner while you’re taking notes, your mood and motivation will be much higher (5).

So, What Colors Should I Be Using?

Use whatever colors make you happiest. I keep notes in blues, purples and greens, because my favorite colors are the cool ones. Use whatever colors, mediums, images, or annotations that speak best to you, like your favorite colors, cutesy patterns, doodles, or whatever strikes your fancy.

However, there is a correct answer to this question. There has been a few different studies that have been conducted about this, and the results vary (no matter how many colors I make it, the periodic table isn’t going to be memorable to an interior designer, after all), but most commonly the primary and secondary colors like red, green, and yellow, are the most memorable colors (3). Even more specifically, use warm colors like red and orange over cool colors like blue and purple, as these colors tend to catch your attention better and for longer (6).

Sources

1. Goldstein, E. B. (2019). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience. Cengage.

2. Gomes, C. F., Brainerd, C. J., & Stein, L. M. (2013). Effects of emotional valence and arousal on recollective and nonrecollective recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(3), 663-677. doi:10.1037/a0028578

3. Bae, G., Olkkonen, M., Allred, S. R., & Flombaum, J. I. (2015). Why some colors appear more memorable than others: A model combining categories and particulars in color working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(4), 744-763. doi:10.1037/xge0000076

4. Baack, D. W., Wilson, R. T., & Till, B. D. (2008). Creativity and Memory Effects: Recall, Recognition, and an Exploration of Nontraditional Media. Journal of Advertising, 37(4), 85-94. doi:10.2753/joa0091-3367370407

5. Ceci, M. W., & Kumar, V. K. (2015). A Correlational Study of Creativity, Happiness, Motivation, and Stress from Creative Pursuits. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(2), 609-626. doi:10.1007/s10902-015-9615-y

6. Jadhao A, Bagade A, Taware G, Bhonde M. Effect of background color perception on attention span and short-term memory in normal students. Natl J Physiol Pharm Pharmacol 2020;10(11):981-984

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Nadine Garner on fame, #MeToo, Mr Black and being friends with a young Kylie Minogue

Siobhan Duck, Sunday Herald Sun June 1, 2019 10:53pm

Nadine Garner has seen and heard plenty during her three-plus decades in showbiz.

When she was 14, co-star Kylie Minogue introduced her to the music of Prince, the Violent Femmes and Donna Summer on the set of their TV series The Henderson Kids and turned her on to fashion with regular excursions to Melbourne’s Camberwell Sunday Market.

For her second movie, Disney’s Bushfire Moon, she worked alongside veteran actor Charles “Bud” Tingwell; she’d later star in a nationwide production of Cabaret for a year as it travelled Australia.

But there are still plenty of tricks to be learned — or even relearned.

Not long ago, Garner, 48, found herself attending workshops on how to conduct love scenes on-screen. In the turbulent and confusing wake of #MeToo, the actors’ union set them up as part of a wider response to the flood of harassment allegations in the entertainment industry.

“An extremely qualified woman was brought out to run courses,” says Garner.

“She told us, ‘Hey, these intimacy scenes, they are just like fight scenes. We need to co-ordinate them and choreograph them — and set down rationally how we are going to execute them.’”

The point, she says, was “to demystify them — and create an open dialogue around them, rather than them being something difficult or shameful”.

The workshops hit close to home for Garner. The ink was barely dry on her contract at the Seven Network for a new series of her hit TV show last year when allegations of sexual harassment were made against her co-star Craig McLachlan. (He is still fighting them in court). Garner with co-star Craig McLachlan in The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Nadine Garner says #MeToo is the beginning of a new way for co-workers to behave across all industries.

Garner emphasises her remarks about #MeToo and the entertainment industry are not in direct reference to McLachlan. But his departure — and Seven’s decision to walk away from the series — was a blow for the single mother of two.

“It was the most I was ever going to be earning,” she says. “I thought, ‘Oh my god … everything is going to turn around!’ But nothing is guaranteed.

“I think we are at the very beginning of a new way of behaving across all industries. And ours needed to be looked at — no doubt. It still does; nothing is fixed here. We still have a systemic vulnerability in our industry for people to be taken advantage of.”

Despite her disappointment over the show’s demise, Garner is supportive of the changes that are starting to take place: “If you’ve got a menace in the workplace (it needs to be dealt with). And I know many actors who have had to work with menaces, and had to continue to walk into work doing nudity or love scenes with an actor who was harassing them — stalking them outside of the workplace, talking about how turned on they are when they do scenes … It’s very complex for actors, because we are putting ourselves in really vulnerable positions that other people aren’t.” Garner says she has never courted fame.

Garner has a clear disinterest in having people believe her life is glamorous just because she is on film and TV screens, and she has steadfastly refused to play the fame game all along.

“I think there is a pressure on us to present as though we are having the lifestyle of our American cohorts,” she says.

“And we are really not. I can assure you my life is as complex and stressful as everyone else’s. In fact, I don’t have the financial security of most people; I have maybe bursts of income and then nothing. There’s a misconception that anyone in the public eye is having this easy life. That is not my experience — and it’s certainly not the experience of all my peers in film and TV and theatre.”

Despite the financial pressure and difficulties juggling the needs of her sons Edan, 13, and Jem, 10, Garner doesn’t regret her decision to be an actor — even if she never felt it was her calling.

She landed the role of fresh-faced Tamara Henderson on The Henderson Kids — her first major role — in 1985 after she attended an open-casting call. The show would end up making her a household name. 1985: Garner (left) with co-star Kylie Minogue on the set of The Henderson Kids.

And it wasn’t just Garner who got her big break on The Henderson Kids. The show also featured Kylie Minogue, Ben Mendelsohn and Jane Hall.

“There were some very astute casting decisions made,” reflects Garner. “It was magic, really. You can’t orchestrate that. Kylie seemed cool to me because she was three years older — that’s a lot when you are a kid. She was very grown up, very worldly at that age already.”

She has been reunited with another former co-star — Stephen Curry — on the set of her latest series, the Network 10 comedy Mr Black.

“I had a massive crush on Nadine when she was on The Henderson Kids,” Curry tells Stellar.

“I used to fantasise about being on the show with her. We first worked together on The Secret Life Of Us. She played a paraplegic and I was her nurse. We had to kiss and, while I kept it professional on the exterior, my inner 10-year-old was doing backflips.”

Series creator Adam Zwar says Garner — who plays Rowena, a woman with a new lease on life after her divorce from Curry’s embittered character — was an obvious choice for the role. Garner with Stephen Curry (left) and Nick Russell in Mr Black. The cover of the latest issue of Stellar, in today’s Sunday Herald Sun.

Like her TV counterpart, Garner is finding her feet after splitting with the father of her boys. “For those who don’t know her, Nadine is a deep thinker,” says Zwar. “She’s an individual. She is not part of any social or intellectual clique. She makes her own mind up about things.”

Zwar says a comedian who filmed a guest role on the show serenaded Garner with The Henderson Kids theme song — and she didn’t bat an eye.

“I guess she’s been part of our lives for so long, she’s used to extreme and emotional reactions from people.”

Garner has her own take on it. “I don’t think the fame that I had was ever really out of control,” she says.

“I could still function and have a life. I wasn’t a celebrity. Really, really big stars like Macaulay Culkin — that kind of surreal, catapulting-you-into-another-stratosphere kind of fame, where the ego goes into crisis and you’re no longer sure where the ground is — I never had that.

“I still had all the same issues as any person, with just a smattering of recognition here and there. I had a couple of pretty nasty experiences in public places where people tried to punch me up; kids who thought it was funny.

“It wasn’t like, ‘Wow, this is so glamorous’. It was a bit scary. So I found the whole fame thing kind of confronting; I have never courted fame.

“If there’s a red carpet and they try to get me on it, I run around the back!”

Mr Black airs 8.40pm Tuesdays on Network 10

Originally published as The unglamorous life of Nadine Garner

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Headlines

World welcomes New Year amid wildfires and protests (Reuters) The world rang in the New Year on Wednesday with spectacular firework displays from Sydney to Tokyo, although celebrations in Australia were overshadowed by deadly wildfires and the festive mood in Hong Kong and India was dampened by protests.

Trump says he’ll sign first-step China trade deal on Jan. 15 (AP) The first phase of a U.S.-China trade agreement will be inked at the White House in mid-January, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, adding that he will visit Beijing at a later date to open another round of talks aimed at resolving other sticking points in the relationship. The so-called ��Phase One” agreement is smaller than the comprehensive deal Trump had hoped for and leaves many of the thorniest issues between the two countries for future talks. Few economists expect any resolution of “Phase Two” before the presidential election in 2020.

US stock indexes waver on last day of a record-breaking year (AP) Major U.S. stock indexes edged mostly lower Tuesday afternoon in light trading ahead of the New Year’s Day holiday. Wall Street was closing the books on a blockbuster 2019, with the broader market on track for its best performance in six years.

Panama Canal marks 20 years of US handover amid water crisis (AP) Panama marked the 20-year anniversary Tuesday of the turnover of the Panama Canal, now amid a water crisis that threatens the viability of the waterway. Declining rainfall and rising temperatures have reduced the level of freshwater lakes that fill the locks of the Panama Canal and allow boats to transit between the Pacific and the Atlantic.

Let’s get Brexit done and end division in 2020, Johnson tells Britons (Reuters) Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would bring his divided nation back together next year when Britain leaves the European Union, telling Britons they were set for a “fantastic year and a remarkable decade”.

India Approves Third Moon Mission, Months After Landing Failure (Reuters) India has approved its third lunar mission months after its last one failed to successfully land on the moon, its space agency said on Wednesday, the latest effort in its ambitions to become a low-cost space power.

Officials: Taliban Target Afghan Security Forces, Killing 26 (AP) The Taliban unleashed a new wave of attacks in northern Afghanistan, targeting members of the country’s security forces and killing at least 26, local officials said Wednesday.

North Korea’s Leader Promises ‘New Strategic Weapon,’ Leaves Room for Talks (Reuters) North Korea’s leader plans to further develop nuclear programs and to introduce a “new strategic weapon” in the near future, state media said on Wednesday, although he signaled there was still room for dialogue with the United States.

Hong Kongers support protester demands (Reuters) Hong Kong’s protest movement is supported by 59% of city residents polled in a survey conducted for Reuters by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, with more than a third of respondents saying they had attended an anti-government demonstration.

Facing trial, former Nissan boss flees Japan (NYT) Carlos Ghosn, the company chairman who was ousted after being accused of financial wrongdoing in Japan, has unexpectedly taken refuge in Lebanon. He said he was escaping “injustice and political persecution.” r. Ghosn, 65, is a citizen of Lebanon, where he is legally protected from extradition, as well as of France and Brazil. It was unclear how he left Japan: He had posted $9 million in bail, and was meant to be under close watch. One of his lawyers in Japan said today that Mr. Ghosn’s legal team still held all three of his passports and had not known his plans.

Australia Sending Aid to Wildfire Towns as Death Toll Rises (AP) Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers fleeing to the shoreline.

Protesters attack US Embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes (AP) Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area in one of the worst attacks on the embassy in recent memory. American guards fired tear gas, and palls of smoke rose over the embassy grounds. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main embassy building with their guns pointed at protesters. There were no reports of casualties.

Iran denies role in U.S. embassy violence, warns against retaliation (Reuters) Iran denied it was behind violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday and warned against any retaliation, after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for an attack on the mission and said it would be held responsible.

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Conductive Inks Market 2019 Global Industry Outlook, Demand, Key Manufacturers and 2023 Forecast Report

Conductive Inks Market Size, Industry Growth, Trend, Growth, Demand, Type, Manufacturer, Service, Share, Outlook, Overview, Regional Analysis and Forecast till 2022

Key Players Overview:

Dupont, Henkel AG & Co, Johnson Matthey, Parker Chromerics, Sun Chemical Corporation, Poly-ink, Creative Material Inc, Vorbeck Materials Corporation, Pchem Associates, and Novacentrix are some of the leading players of the Global Conductive Inks Market. Profiling them in its analysis, MRFR explores strategies that keep them at the forefront of competition.

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Industry/ Innovation /Related News:

May 24, 2018 – NanoCnet (US), a start-up company involved in development and commercialization of a different type of nanosilver material launched its new product – SilverStrandTM. The invention is a new generation of durable, flexible, and stable silver nano-materials to be used in the flexible electronics and related industries.

May 09, 2018 – Creative Materials (US) a leading company involved in designing, development, and custom manufactures specialty electronic inks introduced its new product – 127-50. This innovative product is an electrically conductive and resistive hydro-active ink and coating. The conductivity of 127-50 increases as the humidity increases.

Conductive Inks Market Competitive Analysis:

Manufacturers operating in this highly competitive market strive to deliver the best quality, reliable and consistent pure, high-quality products based on innovative technologies. They strive to develop the ability to tailor products to the requested specifications such as customized/bulk packaging and special requirements. Product launch, M&A activities, collaboration remain key strategies for the market players to churn the competitive advantages.

Conductive Inks Market Overview:

Conductive Inks are made using by infusing graphite or other conductive materials into ink that when printed, change into an object conducting electricity. These inks address a range of applications in the consumer electronics, energy, and utility industries.

The global Conductive Inks Market is increasingly gaining momentum owing to the properties these inks offer to various products such as laying down a modern conductive traces economically, forming the same conductive traces on relevant substrates. For instance; etching copper from copper plated substrates.

Attributing to these advantageous properties, Conductive Inks find its applications in some burgeoning industries like Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Energy, Packaging, and Utilities, among others. These inks are widely consumed across the automotive industry which is expansively growing to witness high selling rates. Resultantly, Conductive Inks enjoy a great demand & its market enjoys an extensive traction worldwide.  Attributing to the improving economic conditions & urbanization over the past few years, this market has escalated immensely garnering a huge prominence.

Acknowledging the potential this market holds to grow further in next five years, Market Research Future (MRFR) in its recently published analysis; asserts that the global Conductive Inks market is expected to demonstrate a voluminous growth by 2022, registering an impressive CAGR during the forecasted period.

Also, factors that drive the market growth include; increasing consumer electronics sector in the developing markets. Moreover, factors such as augmenting demand for waterproof automotive components worldwide are providing impetus to the market growth to an extent. These same trends would foster the market growth over the assessment period as well.

Conductive Inks Market Segmentation:

By Product Types  :  Comprises – Silver Conductive Inks, Dielectric Inks, Electrically Conductive Inks, Copper Conductive Inks, and Carbon Inks among others

By Applications   : Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Energy, Packaging and Utilities, among others.

By Regions    :  North America, Europe, APAC and Rest of the World.

Conductive Inks Market  Regional Analysis:

Asia Pacific market of Conductive Inks is expected to grow with the fastest CAGR over the forecast period owing to the augmented uptake of the product in some burgeoning industries like Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Energy, Packaging, and Utilities, among others in some of the countries such as India, Japan & China.  Furthermore, factors such as availability of low-cost raw material, land and moderately regulatory framework are contributing to the regional market growth.

European countries such as Italy, Spain, the UK, and Germany are expected to be the prominent consumer markets due to the increased expenditure on innovation and growing purchasing power of consumers. Additionally, the growth attributes to the implementation of new rules and regulations proposed by the government to follow Conductive Inks rather than solvents in the industry.  Simultaneously, extensive use of paints & coatings by the major automobile manufacturers existing in Germany will be providing impetus to the regional market growth.

North America is projected to perceive a substantial growth in the Conductive Inks market owing to the increased uptake of the product in the packaging sector. Moreover, rising investments from the end-user industries are likely to drive the regional market during the assessment period.

The report for Global Conductive Inks Market of Market Research Future comprises of extensive primary research along with the detailed analysis of qualitative as well as quantitative aspects by various industry experts, key opinion leaders to gain the deeper insight of the market and industry performance. The report gives the clear picture of current market scenario which includes historical and projected market size in terms of value and volume, technological advancement, macro economical and governing factors in the market. The report provides details information and strategies of the top key players in the industry. The report also gives a broad study of the different market segments and regions.

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Whether you’re currently writing a book, querying agents or on submission to publishers, allow me to share this small-but-important truth: There’s an editor out there right now—sorting stacks of pitch letters, book proposals and manuscripts, thumbing through literary agent submissions, reading selections of the manuscripts she requested from authors directly—who is seeking to buy a book similar to yours.

So, in a sense, your future editor is out there thinking about you.

Picture this person for a moment: Perhaps she’s an associate editor for a mid-level imprint, working her way up at a growing publishing company. She majored in creative writing or English literature or journalism in college, where she developed a passion for Jane Austen or Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion or Anne Lamott. Whoever her muse, she knows good writing when she sees it. She wrote articles for the school newspaper or poems for the literary journal, nabbed a good internship after college and she’s worked hard ever since to finally land her dream job—acquiring and editing books full time and getting paid for it!

The 7 Deadly Sins of Novelists (According to Editors)

Now she fills the role of champion for her authors and books. She pitches the books she discovers to her own internal publishing team, during which she makes a case for both the editorial and business side for acquiring said manuscripts.

Her boss expects her to acquire a handful of new books every year, and though she’s still learning and growing into the job, in part, her performance is tied to the performance of her selections. If she acquires and takes a huge financial risk on a book and it bombs a year later, it reflects on her directly. Of course, like anyone in a new position, she needs time to grow and, sure, she might have more seasoned editors guiding her through this journey. But eventually, given a couple of years, her acquisitions become hers to own.

Does all of this create a little pressure on our friendly associate editor? You bet.

Every editor’s list of acquisitions is viewed (especially by management) as their own personal business within the greater publishing company, complete with its own profit and loss statement (P and L). As a result, each individual book might get more or less scrutiny depending on how it fits into the greater scheme. The worse the editor’s books perform, the harder time she’ll have convincing her team to take risks on her projects in the future.

When you’re writing a book, preparing a proposal or query (for publishers or literary agents, because agents make decisions based on whether they think a publisher will be interested), it’s important to think about your future editor. He is a human being, just like you, and every day he is facing the very real difficulties of the changing market, the shifting retail landscape and his own internal company pressures. He, like many editors in this business, hopes to come across something special—a work of unique power or appeal or finesse or authority—that makes him feel like he did in college when he read Jack Kerouac.

As someone who once sat in the editor’s chair at publishers large and small, I know those simultaneous pressures and hopes firsthand. My first publishing job was as a junior editor acquiring and editing 10–12 books a year for a small, family-owned press. To be honest, for a long time I had no idea what I was doing—but I worked hard and soaked up every lesson I could. Despite my inexperience, over the course of several fairly successful years, I found myself the publisher of that small imprint: hustling to make budgets; publishing competitive, influential books; learning the fast-changing worlds of marketing and publicity; and managing a team that shared my goals.

1. Do Your Homework

Every category and genre of publishing is governed by unspoken rules. In the world of traditional trade book publishing, fiction and nonfiction aren’t the same. For instance, most editors sign nonfiction book deals based on one to two chapters. But for fiction, and especially with first-time novelists, editors typically need to read the full manuscript before a deal is done.

If you’re submitting the next high-concept business book to an experienced agent, or an editor at a business imprint, make sure you’ve done your research. Do you know what other books the literary agent has represented, or the editor has acquired in the recent past? Has that press recently published a book like yours?

Immerse yourself in books similar to your own. Read in the category, but also study the jacket, the acknowledgements page, the author’s blog and their previous books. Conduct industry research on publishing houses, editors and literary agents through sites like Publishers Weekly. Attend a conference, watch lectures on YouTube. Read relevant articles, essays and blog posts.

To know a category is to know the world in which your future editor lives every day.

2. Use Concise Communication

The volume of reading material that accrues on the desks of editors and literary agents is immense. These folks read mountains of content every day, sifting through stacks of submissions for eye-catching queries.

Which is why yours should get right to the point—in such a way that compels them to read more. Don’t belabor your initial synopsis or write a three-page email. If in doubt, the fewer words the better. Share a little about yourself, but only the most relevant points.

Most important: Any sample writing you include should read fast and clean. Editors aren’t looking for reasons to reject, per se, but when inundated, it’s far too easy to dismiss a submission for little things like spelling errors, awkward phrasing or poor formatting.

3. Sign With an Agent

Inking a contract with a good literary agent can help avoid some of the above issues. When on submission to publishers, agents almost always get a faster read than unsolicited queries—especially in certain categories. There are several reasons why this is the case. First, most literary agents take the time to build relationships (and a level of trust) with acquisition editors in the genres they work within. Second, because publishing professionals have such limited time, agents effectively serve as a filter, siphoning in projects with higher-caliber content. Plus, most have also taken the time to work with their authors to develop and shape their book concepts, which adds additional value for the publisher.

I’ve also had countless conversations with authors who published their books agentless, and suddenly found themselves in a strange new world with no idea how to navigate it. Their books released to the world and their lofty publishing dreams slowly wilted as they made mistakes, agreed to bad contractual terms, blindly trusted editors, or neglected their marketing and publicity campaigns. The best literary agents act as a trusted guide, thinking through these details long before a deal ever comes to fruition.

4. Grow Your Platform

Here’s a fact of life in modern publishing: Attracting (and holding) attention is difficult in any medium, especially in a world of social media, streaming television and unlimited self-publishing. As a result, presses look for projects with a built-in audience. It’s thus through a platform that authors can do just that.

I define platform as any outward-facing method a writer uses to attract a readership prior to publishing—which will, in theory, translate to that readership purchasing the writer’s book. It can manifest as anything from a YouTube channel, podcast, blog or Twitter following to an email newsletter or college classroom.

Think of your writing as a business, and take the initiative to build your influence via a robust platform, which will only increase your chances of publishing.

5. Forge a Relationship

Once you sign a book deal, you’ll be assigned a “champion.” More often than not, that person is an acquisitions editor or developmental editor, but it may also be the marketing manager or the publisher herself. While every press is different, often that person is your point of contact throughout the publishing process—from beginning to end.

Whoever your point person, be intentional in building that relationship. If possible, meet your champion face-to-face, or at least set up regular phone calls. Get to know her. This small investment of time and effort on your part can pay off big in the long run.

I’ve seen authors send a nice handwritten note after a meeting or a phone call, thanking the participants for their time. And sometimes I’ve seen those simple thank yous tacked to the wall of an editor’s office years later. A small, kind act goes a long way, and when you need a favor down the road, your champion will remember you.

Guide to Literary Agents 2019

6. Remember to Engage

Shift your thinking about the publishing process: Turning in your manuscript is not the end, but the beginning. The more engaged you are at each subsequent stage, the better chance your book has of making an impact in the market. Writing a terrific manuscript is step one, but you must also help to market, publicize and sell.

Seek to be included in the key publishing decisions along the way, including the final title, cover design, marketing and publicity strategy and so on. Believe it or not, each of these things is regularly decided without the author’s input—but by becoming a part of these decisions, you can bring your vision to the table.

7. Be Your Book’s CMO

Remember: You are your book’s Chief Marketing Officer. You are its first and last advocate. Be clear that this book is still your baby, while remaining cordial and professional.

Consider setting aside some of your advance (if you received one) to help market your book when the time comes. Thinking that far ahead is tough, but every bit of marketing is important: strong Book 1 sales pave the way for Book 2.

If you know your publisher’s marketing strategy (presuming you’ve stayed engaged in the process), then you can supplement it. For example, if the publisher focuses on store placement, ads in industry magazines, focused banner ads and a book tour, then perhaps you invest in hiring a freelance publicist to line up TV, radio or print interviews.

Once you’ve garnered a book deal, it’s easy to sit back and let the professionals handle everything for you. But resist, for your own sake (and the sake of your book). Your book is your baby. When it gets out into the world, you’re the best one to teach it how to walk.

You’ve devoted hours, days, months—even years— to writing and editing your novel or nonfiction book. With all that time invested, it’s natural to want recognition for your hard work and dedication. Take your writing one step further and tackle the publishing process. When you enroll in this online course, you’ll learn the details of the query letter format and how to write a query letter that catches the attention of agents and publishers. Learn more and register.

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HP Pledges to Make Every Page Printed Forest Positive, Carbon Neutral and Part of a Circular Economy

Today at HP Reinvent, the company announced its bold vision for print sustainability – pledging that every page printed with HP will support a forest positive future, carbon neutrality, and materials designed to reduce the impact to the planet. Built on HP’s longstanding commitment to environmental innovation, this new vision supports HP’s ongoing efforts to deliver the company’s most environmentally sustainable product portfolio while transforming their business to a more efficient, circular, and sustainable model. 

“We are redefining the power of print to create a positive, lasting change for the planet, its people and our communities. HP’s commitment to sustainability guides how we do business and drives the way our printers are designed, made and used,” explains Enrique Lores, President of HP Inc.'s Imaging & Printing business. “Today at HP Reinvent, we took one step further by pledging to lead the industry in making every page you print sustainable.”  As HP looks to grow without increasing its consumption of raw materials and thrive in a resource-constrained future, the company is well-positioned to help customers do the same. Supporting a vision to build sustainable products, the company engineers Original HP supplies to help reduce risk for its customers, their reputation, and the planet.

Forest Positive Future

With today’s pledge, the company aims to make every page printed on an HP printer forest positive by extending beyond its consumer printers, which are forest positive, to its entire portfolio to include commercial printers.

In 2016, HP achieved 100% zero deforestation associated with HP-branded paper, nearly two years ahead of schedule– marking a milestone towards the company’s vision for a forest positive future. Plus, the company’s paper-based product packaging zero deforestation goal is on track for 2020. In addition, 100% of HP branded paper sold in North America is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council®, ensuring transparency and responsible forest management. 

Carbon Neutral

HP is taking an ambitious step today towards our vision of carbon neutral printing with the introduction of the new energy efficient EcoSmart LaserJet printer and EcoSmart black toner, which has a lower melt temperature, thereby reducing the energy consumption of HP printers.

But even more valuable than individual products, is how HP’s products work together through HP’s Managed Print Services (MPS) offerings – helping customers achieve ambitious sustainability goals and better their bottom line. By partnering with HP, customers have reported a 33% annual reduction in carbon emissions, energy consumption and costs2.

Circular Economy

HP continues to support a circular economy with its consumer and business products, recently reinventing its printer suite to include closed-loop recycled plastics, with HP ENVY and Tango printers comprised of 30% closed-loop recycled plastics3.  Since 2000, over 199 million pounds of recycled content plastic have been used in 3.9B HP Original ink and toner cartridges1. Two years ago, HP introduced the first HP Original ink cartridges made with plastic bottles sourced from Haiti. As of today, the company has sourced more than 550,000 pounds of ocean-bound plastic for use in our products – the equivalent of more than 12 million plastic bottles that might otherwise have washed into the ocean and waterways. Our R&D teams invest up to five years engineering each new generation of toner and ink cartridges to deliver quality printing and 100% of toner cartridges and 80% of ink cartridges contain recycled content1.

Market Expectations

People expect brands to stand for more than the products they sell. A 2019 Edelman study on trust disclosed a staggering 67% of consumers self-identify as Belief-Driven Buyers and believe brands can be a force for social good5. In the workplace, initial findings of a global supplies study conducted by HP reveals a company’s commitment to sustainability impacts employee recruitment, retention and advocacy with over 50% of today’s US workforce expecting sustainable practices by employers4.

HP Original Supplies are engineered to provide the highest quality printing experience. For HP, this means prioritizing the safety of your printer and the planet by producing reliable ink and toner cartridges, while raising the awareness of the harmful impacts clone and imitation cartridges can have on the environment, print quality, and customer costs.

Transform to Perform

HP has a bold vision for what the future of printing can look like, and it starts with challenging the printing industry to transform and continuously innovate. The company’s pledge for print sustainability announced today aims to protect forests, reduce carbon emissions, and use more recycled materials. Circular economy models help decouple economic growth and natural resource consumption while driving greater competitiveness. Transforming print sustainability is not only good for the planet – it’s good for business.

About HP

HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our portfolio of printers, PCs, mobile devices, solutions and services, we engineer experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is available at www.hp.com. 

    1Based on 2017 HP Sustainable Impact Report

2Estimated energy and paper savings based on analysis of select HP MPS customers’ imaging and printing operations using data gathered on devices and paper consumption and comparing with post-MPS actuals or projections.

3HP calculations based on Energy Star normalized TEC data comparing the HP LaserJet 300/400 series and 500 series monochrome printers introduced in spring 2019. HP 58/59/76/77A/X compared to HP 26A/X, and HP 89A/X/Y compared to HP 87A/X.

4Based on HP Internal Supplies Survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence, February 2019.

5Based on 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report

source: http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/41816-HP-Pledges-to-Make-Every-Page-Printed-Forest-Positive-Carbon-Neutral-and-Part-of-a-Circular-Economy?tracking_source=rss

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Virtual Clinical Trials Market is estimated close to $8 Bn in 2020 and is likely to grow at a healthy CAGR of above 10% by 2025

A virtual clinical trial (also known as remote/decentralized clinical trials) refers to digitally empowered clinical trial processes.

GlobalVirtual Clinical Trials Marketis estimated close to $8 Bn (2020) growing above 10% CAGR. The market growth is driven by rising adoption of virtual trials following outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.

Virtual trials enable easy patient enrolment and remote monitoring

Virtual trials are based on telemedicine and utilize specialised applications for patient engagement and tracking. They significantly reduce the time and financial costs. Additionally, using AI technology helps speed up the process of synthesising and analyzing ever-growing data. Clinical trial sponsors/life science companies are becoming ever more interested in virtual clinical trials due to these advantages.

“AI likely to play important role in virtual clinical trials. Conversational AI for natural language processing (NLP) and image-based AI will increasingly become part of virtual trials. Conversational AI help maintain the patient-clinician engagement while imaging AI to play key role in trials that require radiology”– CTO, Leading Clinical Trial Solutions Company

VC fundings increased significantly post-covid

The number of venture capital funding deals have increased post covid. There were six deals in 2018 which increased to 18 in 2020. Most VC funding occurred in Q3 2020 (10 deals). Notably, Medable - one of the fastest growing decentralized trials platform providers - raised $524 million from various rounds since 2020. One of the biggest rounds occurred in October 2021, where the company received a huge $304 million Series D funding. Growing VC funding will allow companies to develop new technologies and expand their customer and geographic reach. This will then increase overall adoption and virtual clinical trials market growth.

Explore Premium Report on Virtual Clinical Trials Market @ https://meditechinsights.com/global-virtual-clinical-trials-market/

Regional Adoption: Virtual Clinical Trials Market

The US is now the largest market for virtual clinical trials, according to a comprehensive geographical analysis of the global virtual clinical trials market. On the other hand, European life science/medical device companies have not moved as rapidly to accept virtual trials as U.S. However, there have been developments taking place in EU those are expected to propel the adoption steadily.

For instance,

In September 2019, the Trials@Home project was launched by the public-private partnership viz. Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) - to augment the use of digital tools in conduct of clinical trials.

There are 31 members in this large-scale collaborative project from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), academics, small and mid-sized life science companies, and patient organizations.

Competitive Landscape Analysis of Virtual Clinical Trials Market

Some of the key players in global virtual clinical trials market are ICON, Parexel, IQVIA, Covance, Thermo Fisher, LEO Innovation Lab, Huma, Medidata, Oracle, CRF Health, Medable, Signant Health, and Clinical Ink.

For More Detailed Insights, Contact Us @ https://meditechinsights.com/contact-us/

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The clinical trials software market is projected to be growing at a CAGR of 14%

Given the limitations of current clinical trial approaches, including inefficient patient management and data handling, trial sponsors are increasingly opting for innovative technologies and software solutions for conducting clinical trials

 Roots Analysis has announced the addition of “Clinical Trials Software Market, 2022-2035” report to its list of offerings.

 Excessive capital expenditure and other complexities associated with the traditional clinical trials has imposed an enormous financial burden on the pharmaceutical industry. Virtual clinical trials software solutions have the potential to induce substantial digital changes in clinical research methodology, resulting in a more patient-centric, cost-effective and easy to manage approach.

 To order this 270+ page report, which features 60+ figures and 50+ tables, please visit https://www.rootsanalysis.com/reports/clinical-trial-software-market.html

 Key Market Insights

 Over 70+ companies claim to provide clinical trials software

The companies offer clinical trials software with different features like electronic data capture, eCOA/ePRO and eConsent along with decentralized and virtual clinical trials and remote monitoring of the patients. Majority of the players based in North America offer clinical trials software followed by Europe and Asia-Pacific. Further, the market is dominated by the presence of mid-sized players (more than 40%) followed by small and large players.

 Clinical trial management software

It is a well-known fact that clinical trials form an integral part of the overall drug development process, enabling innovators to assess safety and efficacy of their drug candidates / devices. These studies account for around 50% of the total time and capital invested in the development process

Since 2016, more than 120+ partnerships have been inked by service providers

Interestingly, the maximum number of partnership agreements were inked in 2021, majority of these were service agreements (44%), followed by acquisitions/mergers (26%). Further, most of the deals were inked with players based in North America (64%).

 Over 30 mergers and acquisitions were reported in this domain, during the period 2016-2021

More than 85% of these were instances of acquisitions. Further, majority of the instances involved the companies based in North America and the maximum number of deals were inked in 2019.

 Over USD 492.8 million has been invested by both private and public investors, since 2016

Majority of the companies (67%) engaged in this domain primarily received funding through venture capital rounds. Further, around 98% of the funding instances were reported by players headquartered in North America.

 The market is expected to grow at an annual rate close to 14% over the coming decade

The opportunity is likely to be well distributed across clinical trials software on the basis of features of software (EDC, eCOA/ePRO and eConsent) and geographies (North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific). By 2035, the clinical trials software market in North America is anticipated to grow at a relatively faster pace (39%), followed by the market in Europe (21%).

 Clinical trial management system : Driven by the substantial progress in this domain, encouraging virtual clinical trial results, and ongoing technological advancement, the clinical trials software market is anticipated to grow at a commendable pace in the mid to long term.

 To request a sample copy / brochure of this report, please visit https://www.rootsanalysis.com/reports/clinical-trial-software-market/request-sample.html

  Key Questions Answered

 §  Who are the leading players engaged in the development of clinical trials software solutions?

§  Which region(s) will occupy the maximum market share in clinical trials software domain?

§  Who are the key venture capitalists / strategic investors funding the clinical trials software development initiatives?

§  Which partnership models are commonly adopted by stakeholders engaged in the development of clinical trials software solutions?

§  Which factors are likely to influence the evolution of this market?

§  How is the current and future market opportunity likely to be distributed across key market segments?

 By 2035, the financial opportunity within the clinical trials software market has been analysed across the following segments:

§  Features of Software

§  Electronic Data Capture

§  eCOA/ePRO

§  eConsent

 §  Analysis by Geographical Regions

North America

Europe

Asia Pacific

 The research includes profiles of key players (listed below); each profile features a tabulated overview of company, product portfolio, recent developments, and an informed future outlook.

§  Advarra

§  ArisGlobal

§  AssistRx

§  Clario

§  IBM

§  IQVIA

 For additional details, please visit

https://www.rootsanalysis.com/reports/clinical-trial-software-market.html or email sales@rootsanalysis.com

 You may also be interested in the following titles:

1.     Virtual Clinical Trial Service Providers Market, 2021-2030

2.     AI-based Clinical Trial Solutions Providers Market, 2020-2030

3.     Patient Recruitment and Retention Services Market (2nd Edition), 2021-2030

4.     Virtual Clinical Trial Service Providers Market, 2020-2050

 About Roots Analysis

Roots Analysis is one of the fastest growing market research companies, sharing fresh and independent perspectives in the bio-pharmaceutical industry. The in-depth research, analysis and insights are driven by an experienced leadership team which has gained many years of significant experience in this sector. If you’d like help with your growing business needs, get in touch at info@rootsanalysis.com

  Contact:

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+44 (122) 391 1091

Ben.johnson@rootsanalysis.com

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A Closer Look at Tetenal, A Photo Firm That’s Too Important to Fail

When the news broke on January 29th, 2019, that the restructuring of Tetenal had apparently failed, a shockwave rolled over the analog community. Suddenly, supply for basic photochemistry of all sorts seemed uncertain.

But not all is lost, and it’s not only analog photography that is affected by Tetenal’s demise. Here’s an in-depth look into the oldest active company in the photographic industry…

Historic view of the Tetenal Research Laboratory. Image courtesy: Tetenal

Tetenal does not only produce photochemicals but is also deeply invested in digital inkjet printing. For example, it manufactures most Epson inks and a lot of digital inkjet papers for the European market. Plainly put, Tetenal is an integral part of digital and analog photography industries alike. Too big, and too important, to fail.

Without Tetenal’s chemistry branch, a lot of photographers, photofinishers, labs, printing companies and even the once so mighty Kodak itself might be left out in the rain, as Tetenal reportedly produces not only chemistry for EU distribution under license from Kodak but directly produces source chemicals for Kodak’s U.S. manufacturing.

Although Kodak is believed to have two dormant chemistry production plants in Europe, the loss of Tetenal will most likely be more than a mere glitch in the supply chain. Even Hollywood might be affected: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences requires a physical copy of all entrants to the Academy Awards: A physical copy, exposed onto film, developed in ECN-2 chemistry, mostly produced by Tetenal.

Also, to give another example, the Kodak Motion Picture Lab in London is dependent on a supply of Tetenal made chemistry to be able to process motion-picture and separation films.

Another immediate effect of Tetenal’s demise might be a supply glitch for RA-4 paper chemistry that many labs, finishers, and printing companies rely on. One might assume, that this was not exactly a big issue for the modern — digital — photo industry, but unfortunately, this is a misconception. With a gigantic number of digital photos taken every minute, every hour, every day, only a fraction of these images are printed and conserved. But nonetheless, this fraction of printed images is large and most likely surpasses the number of photographs printed during the peak of film photography in the early noughties.

Most of these images are, however, not “printed” in a sense of inkjet printing but are rather digitally exposed onto silver halide photographic paper, because compared to inkjet printing, actual photographic paper offers better quality for a significantly better price at a higher volume in significantly less production time. The thing is, this paper needs chemicals to develop it, to fix it, to bleach it. Chemicals that are at large produced by Tetenal.

That is why, among other reasons, a group of Tetenal employees has launched an effort to buy the company. This so-called management buyout might very well bear a realistic chance to save the company as the 2005 management buyout of ILFORD has shown in the past.

According to PHOTOKLASSIK International‘s editor in chief, Marwan Mozayen, who is a part of the current restructuring effort to save Tetenal’s chemistry branch, there is a very realistic hope to save Tetenal, or to be more precise, Tetenal’s chemistry branch, because as opposed to a common understanding, the photochemistry branch is actually the profitable one. The inkjet, ink-production and inkjet paper branch are what brought Tetenal into financial misfortune, according to senior Tetenal staff.

Tetenal inkjet paper. Image courtesy: Tetenal.

From an economic viewpoint, products for the digital photography market like inkjet papers or inks are not profitable for Tetenal and never have been. At first, this might sound quite counterintuitive, since digital is a massive market compared to a nowadays relatively small, slow-paced but stable analog market. However, one must not forget that the extremely fast pace of the digital market and industrial plagiarism play a substantial role in product profitability, especially if the product requires a substantial effort and investment in research and development. This is the case with the inkjet printing lineup Tetenal offered.

For example, the company designed and produced one of the best ink cartridges ever (at least Epson says so). They conducted significant research on printing inks in general and developed some of the most permanent inks on the market. If you claim that inkjet printing is great because of advances in permanence, vividness of color, or perception of color, then your claim is most likely based on innovations made in Norderstedt, and made by Tetenal.

1930s Tetenal advertisement: “Tetenal – the leading photo brand”. Image courtesy: Tetenal

So, if these Tetenal inks and cartridges are so great they sure must sell accordingly, you might say. In theory only, unfortunately. With companies in Asia being able and impudent enough to effectively copy these advancements and sell their products at a considerably lower price because no expensive R&D is involved, the margin of profit for Tetenal was too small to be sustainable. Combined with the reality that a large portion of end consumers tend to buy the cheapest product, the question of profitability is easily answered.

The company is the biggest photochemical OEM manufacturer today and most likely the largest there ever was. Even in the heyday of chemical photography, Tetenal produced chemistry for Agfa, Kodak and Ilford. Today, a hundred percent of Ilford’s and approximately 30% of Kodak’s photochemistry are produced by Tetenal, says Mozayen according to his industry contacts..

The company even reformulated and improved Kodak’s last E-6 chemistry lineup before its discontinuation. Tetenal is not only a manufacturer of chemistry, but it is also a motor of innovation and research. The 3-bath E-6 process, invented by Tetenal, for example, is a driving force behind the resurgence of color slide film in the wake of Kodak’s release of the new Ektachrome 100, because it enables small labs or photographers at home to maintain a cheap, low-volume and most importantly high-quality E-6 process.

With a rising number of small photo labs and a grassroots analog photography community growing steadily, such a simplified and yet uncompromising process is of paramount importance. That is the reason why these kinds of photochemistry are profitable and in high demand: Large labs who can run a full replenished 6-bath E6 line with continuous process control like the Kodak Q-Labs of back in the day are not financially sustainable today because of low volume.

To give a small example: a typical replenished high volume E6 line requires a few hundred liters of chemistry to keep the machine running, regardless of how many films need to be processed. A small processor like a Jobo ATL, CPP3 or comparable machines only needs a fraction of that amount of chemistry – as low as 250 milliliters per 36-exposure film. Welcome to the magic of scale.

The problem is, however, that these low volume machines that are sufficient for the current demand and thus can operate in a very profitable zone require an available 3 bath reversal process, that thus far is only offered by Tetenal. That means that a total loss of Tetenal might very well bring a quick end to Kodak’s efforts to bring back slide films like Ektachrome 100 and maintain their production.

Although there are alternative manufacturers like Bellini or Unicolor, none of these companies can fill the gap Tetenal would leave. First, Tetenal’s chemistry surpasses every other brand except perhaps Fuji in terms of storage and shelf life. Bellini’s color chemistry concentrate is only good for about 3-4 months in storage. For reference, that is about the time a working solution made from Tetenal chemistry will develop your film or paper.

Second, producing and selling photographic color chemistry inside the EU requires a so-called R.E.A.C.H. certification, which is an unbelievably expensive but necessary license to produce and sell certain chemistry inside the E.U. Reportedly, Tetenal spent about €500,000 (~$574,000) to acquire the license to produce CD3 and CD4 color developers — and apparently they split the bill with Fuji to save money. That is one of the reasons why Unicolor chemistry, for example, is not available in the E.U. No small company or startup could afford such certification and thus Tetenal is the only manufacturer of CD3 and CD4 within the European Union.

Another aspect of Tetenal’s crucial importance to the photographic/cinematographic industry is the fact, that ECN-2 chemistry, which is necessary to properly develop motion picture film, is in some form or another completely dependent on Tetenal. Kodak is dependent on Tetenal as well because at the moment no other company worldwide except Fujifilm can synthesize certain necessary chemicals that are required as pre-products for various photochemical end products, including film manufacture.

According to Mozayen, basically every single company involved in the chemical photo industry depends in some way or another on Tetenal. Kodak’s cash-cow developers XTOL and HC-110 are produced by Tetenal, as well as Rollei’s Digibase C-41 kits, the list could go on and on.

The demand for photographic chemistry is high and stable. Tetenal’s order books are full — to this day. So why in the world is the company bankrupt, then?

The reasons for Tetenal’s financial struggles are manifold. Among others, the research and development of highly sophisticated chemical products are very expensive and to even begin research, let alone production of a product is a considerable financial investment if you put necessary hurdles like R.E.A.C.H. certifications into account. Second, in an OEM / B2B business model, payment periods can get excessively long and if a customer struggles to pay their bills, cash flow might be in jeopardy quite easily. Added to the fact, that in times of almost nonexistent interest rates, banks are more and more hesitant to bridge such financial gaps, insolvency happens faster than one might expect.

Additionally, from a marketing perspective, the OEM focused company slept through the analog revival and did not focus enough on establishing itself as a brand like for example Kodak, Kosmofoto or Lomo did. Tetenal, the oldest company in the history of photography and even older than Kodak, does not even have a Wikipedia entry. Let that settle for a moment.

All the above combined with a partly unprofitable branch of business and some accumulated old liabilities add up to a perfect microeconomic storm.

An example of non-existent marketing: Many don’t know that Tetenal produces a wide array of superb black and white photographic papers. Image courtesy: Marwan Mozayen

But as mentioned before, not all is lost. Hope is on the horizon. Tetenal has one huge advantage over Fuji, Kodak, and Calbe, who could easily produce the necessary chemistry. As mentioned before, the magic word is scale.

According to sources from within Alaris, Kodak neither confirms nor denies that it owns two dormant chemistry bottling plants in Europe that could be reactivated if the need to do so should arise. The problem is, however, that these plants were most likely designed for the huge production runs of yesterday, equipped with gigantic and inflexible machinery. The same can be said about Calbe Chemistry, another German manufacturer of chemistry that has the necessary means and funds to produce photochemicals.

The pressing issue with these non-scalable production chains is that these lines cannot produce chemistry at relatively low quantities at a profitable level.

Tetenal does not have this issue. Their machinery is small and flexible enough to produce even small batches of chemistry and then, when push comes to shove stop production of product A to begin production of product B. To put this into numbers: The minimum quantity of chemistry Tetenal can produce is 10,000 liters, or to put it in even simpler terms, the minimum production quantity is approximately 4,000 2.5-liter E-6 3 bath kits, which is a very reasonable scale.

With the current demand for photochemistry and the fact that Tetenal at the moment probably produces chemistry at its highest pace to satisfy the huge amount of “before it is too late” orders combined with a slowly but steadily increasing market for chemical photography and cinematography, Tetenal is far from lost.

Currently, about 60 employees from production, R&D, quality assurance, and management are concentrating their efforts on buying the company’s chemistry branch. All employees from the non-profitable inkjet branch have reportedly been laid off, which reduces the cost of operations dramatically and makes the effort to buy the struggling company even more feasible.

Another thing that increases the chances of success is the missing interest on possible investors for the very ground the Tetenal factory is built upon because of the simple reason that Tetenal produced chemistry there for over 50 years. A repurposing and thus the necessary decontamination of the grounds would be excessively expensive — a price no one acting even remotely economically could justify.

Photographic developer tablets made by Tetenal in the early noughties. Image courtesy: Tetenal

All in all, Tetenal, or rather NEW Tetenal, has the potential to rise from the ashes of the past. To rise as a strong and flexible company that can easily react to a market that depends on the company’s very existence. After all, Tetenal is, was and will be a hotbed of photochemical innovation and progress. Maybe, hopefully, we will see them at Photokina 2020 presenting reintroduced C-41, E-6 and black and white developer tablets. Indefinitely storable and suitable for worldwide shipping.

If you want to stay informed about the proceedings and status of the Tetenal management buyout, make sure to visit their new website.

This article was made possible only by on-location journalism by Photoklassik Magazine. If you enjoy reading in-depth considerations about analog photography with deep insight into the industry and love to hold a high-quality print magazine in your hands, then make sure to support PHOTOKLASSIK INTERNATIONAL and consider a subscription of the globally available print magazine. Visit this page for more information about it and the subscription options.

About the author: Ludwig Hagelstein is a photographer and college student based in Bamberg, Germany. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. You can find more of Hagelstein’s work on his website and Instagram.

source https://petapixel.com/2019/02/01/a-closer-look-at-tetenal-a-photo-firm-thats-too-important-to-fail/

[tastydregs]

The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs

This is what happens when a mouse trips out: It becomes more curious about other mice and more likely to socialize with them for long periods of time. It becomes less likely to glug massive amounts of alcohol. It wriggles, quavering, like a wet dog shaking off rain. And its head twitches, rapidly, side to side. 

Because a mouse on LSD cannot tell you that colors seem brighter or the walls are melting or a guitar solo somehow sounds purple, these head twitches are of tremendous importance to chemist Jason Wallach. “If you want to know if a compound is likely to cause a psychedelic effect in humans,” says Wallach, speaking from his tiny office in the Discovery Center at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, “you look to the mice, to that twitching.” 

These twitch tests—and countless others—are part of Wallach’s mind-bending new mandate, sparked by a late-2019 meeting with the heads of a company called Compass Pathways. The UK-based biotech firm was eyeing the possibilities of developing psychedelic drugs for use in mental health therapies. Its core product was psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms. But it needed new chemicals, engineered to deliver consistent, optimized, and potentially radical results. And that meant new chemists. By August 2020, Compass had inked a two-year, $500,000 “sponsored research agreement” with Wallach and the university. The Discovery Center was born.

A few years in, with continued support from the company, Wallach has cooked up scores of novel psychedelics, mailed them off to partner labs for testing on those mice, and then waited—and hoped—for the telltale twitch results. The chemist, 36 and pale, face framed by a rough red beard and rectangular glasses, can hem and haw a bit when it comes to specifics: “Compass doesn’t want me to give out numbers. I’ll say we’ve made a lot.” It’s in the neighborhood of 150 new drugs, all of which can potentially be patented and sold by Compass.

We are, as you have probably read, in the throes of a “psychedelic renaissance.” Compelling clinical work conducted at New York University, Imperial College, Johns Hopkins, and elsewhere showed that long-outlawed drugs such as N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), LSD, and psilocybin have terrific potential for treating everything from addiction to Alzheimer’s to end-of-life anxiety. Pharmaceutical companies have taken note. In 2020 the fledgling psychedelic industry was predicted to balloon to $6.9 billion by 2027—a year later, that estimate increased to over $10 billion. In September 2020, Compass became the first company of its kind to trade on a major stock exchange, debuting on the Nasdaq at an estimated value of more than $1 billion.

So far, none of these companies has brought a psychedelic drug to market, but the thinking is that, through what the clinical literature calls a—“mystical-type experience”—a psychedelic trip that produces feelings of joy, peace, interconnectedness, and transcendence—patients can confront the root causes of various mental maladies. “I don’t want to use the word cure, but psychedelics can offer long-term healing,” says Florian Brand, the cofounder and CEO of a Berlin-based biotech incubator called Atai Life Sciences, which invested in Compass Pathways. “We have put a lot of money into actually exploring this hypothesis.”

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Functional Printing Industry Research Report - Global Forecast to 2030

Global Functional Printing Market Synopsis

The data experts at Market Research Future Reports (MRFR) have analyzed the global Functional Printing Market. The global functional printing market is estimated to value USD 30.27 billion, recording a promising CAGR of 19.26% during the review period. The growing demand for cheaper and fast-paced production is one of the most significant factors driving the global functional printing market 2020. Besides, with the burgeoning technological advancement, the companies are successfully achieving low-cost and face-paced production. Besides, the waste produced is minimalistic, which is why it is preferred.

In addition, the development of 3D printing is estimated to present several opportunities for market expansion in the forthcoming period. However, the functional printing process demands an acute accuracy with being complex in management which is likely to hinder the market growth. In addition, the pandemic COVID-19 has severely affected the global functional printing market. The economy has been affected due to the disturbance caused in the cycle of production and demand. The lockdown imposed across various countries is likely to bring a massive disturbance in the market. The market will start recovering as the lockdown is lifted in a phased manner.

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Market Segmentation

The worldwide functional printing market can be segmented on the basis of printing technology, material, application, and geography.

On the basis of printing technology, the worldwide functional printing market can be segmented into flexography, screen printing, inkjet printing, gravure printing, and others.

On the basis of material, the worldwide functional printing market can be segmented into substrates and inks. The substrates vertical can further be classified into plastic, glass, paper, gallium nitride (GAN), silicon carbide, and others. The inks segment can be further classified into graphene ink, conductive inks, dielectric inks, and others.

On the basis of application, the worldwide functional printing market can be segmented into displays, sensors, lighting, photovoltaics, batteries, RFID tags, others.

On the basis of geography, the worldwide functional printing market can be segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Rest of the World.

Geographical Analysis

The worldwide functional printing market is estimated to expand significantly during the assessment period from 2019 to 2024. The geographical analysis of functional printing market has been performed for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the world. According to the study, the global market is estimated to be dominated by North America. North America is likely to acquire the largest market share during the assessment period. The region has been experiencing a continuous advancement in technology which is fueling the market. In addition, the growing demand for near-field communication (NFC) in Europe and North America. Furthermore, the application of RFID tags in the retail sector is estimated to bloom the regional market. On the other hand, the APAC region is projected to expand at the highest CAGR during the assessment period. The region is blooming due to the presence of developing economies like India, Japan, and China. In addition, the APAC region also comprises of established printing companies and the electronic companies that are used in the manufacturing processes.

However, the regions have been affected significantly due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Several markets have been shut temporarily due to the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Key Players

The established key players of the global market are L.P. (US), HP Development Company, Haiku Tech (US), BASF SE (Germany), Avery Dennison Corporation (US), Blue Spark Technologies (US), E Ink Holdings Inc. (Taiwan), Display Corporation (US), Eastman Kodak Company Ltd (US), GSI Technologies LLC (US), and Enfucell Oy (France).

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Conductive Inks Market Checkout the Unexpected Future 2030

Global Conductive Inks Market Overview 2030 -

As per MRFR analysis, the Conductive Inks Market is expected to reach more than USD 4.22 billion by 2030 with a CAGR of 4%. The Conductive Inks Market has seen a remarkable growth over the past few years and it has been expected that the global market will experience the same growth during the forecast period.                                                                                                                                                                                         The global Conductive Inks Market is likely to grow at a significant CAGR between 2021- 2030, reveals the new Market Research Future (MRFR) report.

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On the contrary, strict governmental measures pertaining to the use of brominated flame retardants in electronic equipment and textile, and its toxic properties are factors that may limit the global Conductive Inks Market growth over the forecast period.

The global Conductive Inks Market has seen potential growth in the last year and is expected to expand significantly in the coming years. The transition witnessed various technological advances and changes in the wireless communication sector, owing to the ever growing demand for smartphones with enhanced features; increased storage space, for instance. Miniaturization is a prominent trend noted in the global smartphone and tablet market, where the size of the electronic components used in the manufacturing of smartphones and tablets are reduced without jeopardizing its performance and quality. In order to achieve fine line printing in the miniaturized components the manufacturers need inks with advance formulations, which in turn is driving the market for conductive inks.

Global Conductive Inks Market Share is growing with the rapid pace; mainly due to advancement in technologies. According to a recent study report published by the Market Research Future, The global market of Conductive Inks is booming and expected to gain prominence over the forecast period. The market is forecasted to demonstrate a stunning growth by 2030, surpassing its previous growth records in terms of value with a striking CAGR during the estimated period (2021 – 2030).

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Industry/ Innovation/ Related News:

October, 2017 – Nano Dimension, a leading name in the conductive ink market space has opened its new production plant for Nano particle ink production. The facility is dedicated towards production of advanced nanoparticle conductive and dielectric inks.

May, 2016 – DuPont (Now DowDupont) launched new conductive ink for digital printing applications. The new product from the company will enable digital printing of various electronic components and circuits such as OLED panels, solar cells, printed antennae and touch panels where fine line of printing is required Conductive Inks Market   - Segments:

The report is segmented in to three Key dynamics for an easy grasp and enhanced understanding.

By Product Types:  Comprises - Silver Conductive Inks, Dielectric Inks, Electrically Conductive Inks, Copper Conductive Inks, and Carbon Inks among others

By Applications : Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Energy, Packaging and Utilities, among others.

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In 2019, Global speciality chemicals company ICL’s Industrial Production division (ICL-IP) announced its strategic agreements with its Asian customers to expand the capacity of bromine compounds. The agreements will look to increase the production capacity of its TBBA bromine compound by up to 25,000mtpa. Major Regions

North America, APAC/Asia Pacific, along with Europe and RoW/Rest of the World are the main markets for conductive inks worldwide.

APAC can emerge as the biggest as well as the fastest expanding market, as conductive inks are increasingly finding applications in RFID, photovoltaics, membrane switches, displays, automotive, PCB, among others. A growing industrial base, supportive government initiatives, and cheap labor costs are also working in favor of the APAC market. Increasing spending by India and China on setting up of solar photovoltaic systems has fostered the demand for conductive inks as well. A few key macroeconomic factors contributing to market growth can be the burgeoning middle class populace, escalating disposable income, and surge in urbanization. China forms roughly 30% of the worldwide automotive manufacturing and has therefore, emerge as the leading market for conductive inks not only in the region but also globally. Fast-paced industrialization across the region and the rising consumer spending capacity has raised the sales of electronic products, particularly in Indonesia and India. This trend is anticipated to foster the demand for conductive inks in the region over the upcoming period.

North America is a lucrative market, given its stand as a prominent automobile producer in the world and the resultant increase in consumption of conductive inks. Significant disposable income, supreme large-scale production capacity, and impressive product variation are continuously fostering North America’s position in the global market. The US market is a strong one in the region, thanks to the widespread distribution network of a large number of reputed players in the country. Read more reports at: https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/categories/chemicals-market-report Read more details at: https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/infographics Read more details at: https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/videos

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Global Virtual Clinical Trials Market which is estimated close to $8 Billion (2020), is growing above 10% CAGR

A virtual clinical trial (also known as remote/decentralized clinical trials) refers to digitally empowered clinical trial processes. The market growth is driven by growing adoption of virtual trials following outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual trials enable easy Patient Enrolment and Remote Monitoring

Virtual trials are based on telemedicine and use dedicated apps for patient engagement and tracking. They greatly reduce the financial and time burdens. In addition, use of AI technologies can help synthesize and analyze ever-expanding data and speed up the process. Such benefits are increasingly drawing interest of life science companies/clinical trials sponsors into virtual clinical trials.

“AI likely to play important role in virtual clinical trials. Conversational AI for natural language processing (NLP) and image-based AI will increasingly become part of virtual trials. Conversational AI help maintain the patient-clinician engagement while imaging AI to play key role in trials that require radiology”

– CTO, Leading Clinical Trial Solutions Company

VC fundings increased significantly post-Covid

The number of venture capital funding deals have increased post Covid. There were six deals in 2018 which increased to 18 in 2020. Most VC funding occurred in Q3 2020 (10 deals). Notably, Medable - one of the fastest growing decentralized trials platform providers - raised $524 million from various rounds since 2020. One of the biggest rounds occurred in October 2021, where the company received a huge $304 million Series D funding. Growing VC funding will enable companies to make technological advancements and increase customer/geographic reach. This will then increase overall adoption and market growth.

Geographic Analysis: Virtual Clinical Trials Market

Comprehensive regional assessment of the global virtual clinical trials market suggests that US is currently the largest market for virtual clinical trials. On the other hand, European life science/medical device companies have not moved as rapidly to adopt virtual trials as U.S. However, there have been developments taking place in EU those are expected to propel the adoption steadily. For instance, in September 2019, the Trials@Home project was launched by the public-private partnership viz. Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) - to augment the use of digital tools in conduct of clinical trials. This large-scale collaborative project involves 31 members from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), academia, small- and mid-sized life science companies and patient organizations.

Competitive Landscape Analysis: Virtual Clinical Trials Market

The leading players operating in the global virtual clinical trials market are ICON, Parexel, IQVIA, Covance, Thermo Fisher, LEO Innovation Lab, Huma, Medidata, Oracle, CRF Health, Medable, Signant Health, and Clinical Ink.

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5G Smartphone 2019

OnePlus 5G smartphone set to debut in first half of 2019, CEO confirms 

OnePlus 6T The OnePlus 6T is barely out and the hype machine for the OnePlus 7 has already begun. The company previously announced that it’s going to launch one of the first 5G phones next year. It’s now confirmed that the device will be launching in the first half of 2019. OnePlus CEO Pete Lau didn’t actually say whether this 5G offering will be the OnePlus 7. He told Gadgets360 that the brand will have a “5G product” in the first half of next year. He gave a separate interview to The Verge where he stated that it’ll be first 5G smartphone in Europe. Lau also provided a little insight into what OnePlus’ lineup will look like next year. The 5G handset is going to coexist alongside the brand’s 4G LTE devices since 5G won’t be accessible worldwide in 2019. He specifically mentioned that it’ll be its own line of phones. This sounds like there will be a 4G OnePlus 7 and a 5G OnePlus 7. The US will probably grab the latter since the network standard should kick into action there next year and the company is paying a lot of attention to the market. It just joined hands with T-Mobile to sell the OnePlus 6T. Also Read: OnePlus 6T arrives with in-display fingerprint scanner, smaller notch, bigger battery T-Mobile has big plans for 5G, so a 5G OnePlus 7 makes sense for both brands. Lau says the company is interested in making a 5G device early in order to better understand what the technology is capable of and what it can offer to customers. He also cited demand from consumers, even though no one has tried out 5G yet. OnePlus is working closely with Qualcomm for its 5G smartphone, as it revealed on stage at the latter’s 4G/5G Summit 2018 last week. Samsung will be competing with it with for the 5G crown. The South Korean company is allegedly working on a 5G version of the Galaxy S10 which may or may not come out with the rest of its 4G family.

Oppo demos 5G smartphone connection 

Oppo has announced completing a 5G connection using a mobile device in Australia, with the Chinese technology company saying this will provide the foundation for commercially launching 5G smartphones in 2019. Oppo said it is aiming to become the first company to release a 5G smartphone. "This latest test by the Oppo Research Institute is a significant milestone in helping the company achieve its goal," Oppo said. "The 5G internet connection was carried out on a pre-commercially available 5G smartphone, developed on the basis of an Oppo R15. It was customised with fully integrated 5G components, including a system board, RF, RFFE, and antenna." Oppo told ZDNet that the test was conducted in its Research Institute in a 5G communication protocol laboratory environment. The company is also "actively exploring" 5G use cases across virtual reality, augmented reality shopping, 3D video calls, and online gaming, it said. "5G technology has been discussed among consumers for quite a few years and we're looking forward to bringing the new technology to Australian shores. This is the first step in making 5G a reality," Oppo Australia MD Michael Tran added. During Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona at the start of this year, ZTE also said that it would launch 5G devices in either late 2018 or early 2019, with smartphones, tablets, and customer premises equipment (CPE) already under development. "Ready for commercialisation, ZTE's 5G solutions are going to be launched soon," the company said in February. "As a pioneer in the 5G era, ZTE has made the rollout of its 5G solutions the core goal." Also working on a 5G phone for 2019 is LG, which announced in August that it is aiming to deliver a smartphone with Sprint following the launch of the United States carrier's 5G network at the beginning of next year. Sprint and LG said they would have more information on device specifications and exact timing of the launch at a later date. "LG has done tremendous work developing technical designs that enable us to be among the first movers in mobile 5G," Sprint CTO Dr John Saw said in August. "Today's announcement brings us one step closer to putting a beautifully designed advanced 5G smartphone in our customers' hands." Oppo is meanwhile also making the world's first phone with 10GB of RAM. The new model of Oppo's Find X will also come with 256GB of storage. Oppo is the world's fifth largest smartphone brand by shipments, behind Samsung, Huawei, Apple, and Xiaomi, according to IDC. Related Coverage OnePlus 6T announced with in-screen fingerprint scanner, dual rear cameras, and no headphone jack Rumors revealed all the details of the new OnePlus phone and today the OnePlus 6T was officially announced in NYC. The OnePlus 6T includes some new technology for the company while also doing away with something OnePlus fans have been enjoying until now. Windows Phone: Why Microsoft built this E Ink second screen for its Lumia 640 Sadly, you'll probably never get to buy one of these handy, second-display Windows 10 Mobile covers. Apple's new iPad Pro aims to keep enterprise momentum Apple's iPad Pro refresh will feature new specifications and design, but the real purpose is to keep the company's massive enterprise flywheel going. Ericsson and Fujitsu partner on 5G Ericsson and Fujitsu will combine their expertise across radio access and core network technology to offer 5G services and solutions across Japan and globally. Xiaomi phone shipments exceeded 100 million by October Despite its sluggish share performance, Xiaomi saw a notable smartphone shipment growth in 2018 as it completed its annual target two months ahead of plan. AT&T showcases disruptive potential of 5G with world's first mm wave browsing session (TechRepublic) At Magnolia Silos in Waco, TX, AT&T successfully conducted the first millimeter wave mobile 5G browsing session using a NETGEAR Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot. Trump unveils 5G spectrum memorandum (TechRepublic) Annual reports on spectrum plans, a spectrum strategy task force, a long-term National Spectrum Strategy, and technology R&D efforts have been commanded under a new US presidential memorandum. Mobile device security: A guide for business leaders (Tech Pro Research) Attacks against mobile devices are growing more widespread and more sophisticated, requiring companies to adopt new tools, strategies, and best practices to safeguard their data assets.

OnePlus plans on launching the first 5G phone in Europe in 2019 

OnePlus just announced the OnePlus 6T earlier this morning, but even so, the company's already hard at work on its successor. In an interview with The Verge, CEO Pete Lau confirmed that it plans on launching a 5G-capable phone in Europe as early as next year. Lau said, "We're very happy that our efforts with OnePlus will include 5G smartphones in the very near future." Furthermore, he also noted that OnePlus is working with carriers in Europe to make sure everything's compatible and that "We're confident we'll be the first 5G phone in Europe." Another interesting thing to note is that this 5G phone will live alongside OnePlus's other 4G LTE handsets. New OnePlus phones typically replace their predecessors, so this suggests that the 5G phone will be separate from the company's regular release schedule. Does that mean we'll get a OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 (5G) next year? Maybe something entirely different like what Apple did with the iPhone 8 and iPhone X? According to Lau, "It doubles the workload for us because it's an additional product. It will be its own line of phones." Are you looking forward to a 5G phone from OnePlus? OnePlus 6T review: 90% of the phone for 60% of the price