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Plant based material could replace single use plastic [Add to Safe Senders List]( | If you can't view this email, please [click here]( 6 July 2021 [Share with a friend]( [SPECS & TECHS - Your Industrial Market Resource for Product, News, Technology & Applications] [SPECS & TECHS - Your Industrial Market Resource for Product, News, Technology & Applications] [C&K Components]( TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS [] [High-precision distance and thickness measurements with confocal sensors]( [High-precision distance and thickness measurements with confocal sensors]( Micro-Epsilon Group [Confocal chromatic sensors]( offer extremely high resolution and are used for high-precision displacement and distance measurements as well as for thickness measurements of transparent objects. Due to the extremely small spot size, very small objects can be detected. 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