In a Word / Graphic Arts Industry News - January 10, 2020

One from Charlie Weekly five years after the bombings.

The Charlie Hebdo attacks five years later, a geolocation system for workers, a packaging school joins the Grandes Ecoles association... This week's news.

Five years after the attacks, Charlie Hebdo denounces the new censors..

Five years after the attacks that decimated Charlie Hebdo's editorial staff, the satirical weekly published a special issue on 7 January in which it gave a voice to the victims' families and pointed the finger at the new censors. For the newspaper, it is especially in the digital sphere that new forms of censorship are flourishing. "?Hier, we used to say shit to God, the army, the church, the state. Today, we have to learn to say shit to tyrannical associations, navel-gazing minorities and bloggers who are tapping our fingers like little masters at école?," writes editor Riss in his editorial.

In Canada, a geolocation system to track workers

Flexlite Security and Defence has developed in Canada a geolocation system intended mainly for industry to identify the geographic position of equipment, vehicles or people by a satellite positioning system. The company explains that the purpose of this system is to prevent workplace accidents, for example by emitting a signal when an individual has been immobilized for too long or by locking accesses in case of danger. But the technology also makes it possible to monitor production steps in real time. A pilot project equipped with this system is currently being deployed at Cascades Packaging.

Esepac joins Agera

The Ecole Supérieure Européenne de Packaging (Esepac), based in Saint-Germain Laprade (43) has become an associate member of Agera (Association des Grandes Ecoles de Rhône-Alpes). The School will thus be able to take advantage of the dynamism of the network of regional Grandes Ecoles to promote "?Emballage?" training courses to students.

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