February 2021

As an iconic global luxury brand, Ralph Lauren’s Digital Product IDs give consumers the reassurance of authenticity paired with a connected product experience. By scanning the Digital Product ID on the product label with a smartphone, consumers can confirm whether their purchase is authentic, learn about the product detail and receive styling tips and recommendations.

RLC’s mass-scale product digitization was led in partnership with EVRYTHNG, the connected IoT platform and technology partner Avery Dennison. Both companies will be exhibiting and speaking at the AIPIA Congress.

The new innovation center is 3 stories high with a total area of 660 sqm and provides 30 new ergonomic work spaces. On the ground floor you can find conference rooms eqipped with the most modern equipment as well as offices. In the two light-flooded top stories - which are connected to the existing building with a glass corridor - we made space for open-plan offices to accomodate our growing engineering team.

The showcase plant was taken into operation in 2019. It was built on an area the size of 5 soccer fields, houses a 29 m high bay storage and was awarded the BREEAM Excellent Sustainability Certificate. First and foremost the plant enables Euroma, known as pioneer of gentle herb processing, to increase the production volume and reach a new level of food safety.

Following CDP’s 2020 global score release, companies responding to the full version of the CDP climate change questionnaire also receive a Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) in addition to their climate change score. The companies with the best SER are celebrated as Supplier Engagement Leaders –this year the top 7% of companies who disclosed to the full climate questionnaire.

Conventional pressure-sensitive acrylic adhesives commonly used in modern medical tapes tend to exhibit low moisture permeability and to easily trap heat and water vapors released from the skin. This often leads to skin irritation, skin maceration, rashes and even bacterial growth. To address this issue, Toyochem researchers applied its advanced resin synthesis technology to form a polymeric composition that substantially raises the moisture permeability rate of the adhesive layer.