drupa 2012/Messe Dusseldorf North America

During Paperboard Packaging Council’s annual Technical and Production Forum in Springfield, MA last week, attendees shared best practices and learned about key topics such as business automation, fiber certification programs, shipping and freight standards.

interpack will organize PACK PLUS, a special exhibit dedicated to the topic of package printing, at drupa 2012 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany. The The 3,200-square-feet special show in hall 11 will highlight the importance of integrated package printing with a product example.

To welcome guests from all over the world, Messe Düsseldorf together with more than 100 partners and a unique concept, will turn the city of Düsseldorf into drupacity for drupa 2012.

The theme world Printed Electronics in the drupa innovation park in Hall 7.0 will provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art technology. The focus will be on both new printing processes and machinery as well as highly innovative products for these production processes.

The advertisements for drupa 2012 print media trade fair, appearing in about 500 trade publications in over 60 countries in the next few months, will be enhanced by augmented reality.

ROCKFORD Ill.—Gallus Stanz- und Druckmaschinen Gmbh, Weiden Germany, placed orders at drupa 2008 for non-stop splicing and automatic rewinding systems from Martin Automatic, Inc., Rockford, Ill., for two new Gallus press lines to be installed in North America and Asia. One project will feature a Martin model MBX automatic butt splicer for paper and paperboard, used in conjunction with a Martin model LRD automatic transfer rewind. The other project will incorporate a Martin model MCB automatic butt splicer. Both splicer models use Martin’s patented lift-and-load roll loading and butt splicing system. “We are very pleased to be able to announce this major order during

PALO ALTO, Calif.—HP has announced that its 2008 drupa trade show exhibit highlighting the company’s industry leadership, innovation, and commitment to customer success, was the most successful drupa exhibit in HP’s history. Purchase contracts completed at the 14-day show were led by a significant number of HP Indigo digital press deals, in addition to sales of HP Scitex and HP Designjet large-format solutions as well as HP SmartStream workflow systems. drupa, which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany from May 29-June 11, is the world’s largest graphic arts exposition; the HP stand at drupa featured the industry’s largest digital color portfolio and was the exposition’s

DUSSELDORF, Germany—At the recent staging of drupa 2008 print media trade fair, the 1,971 exhibitors from 52 countries unanimously reported an extremely high number of promising contacts and successful purchase deals. Overall, drupa exhibitors announced deals concluded worth more than Euro 10 billion. Industry insiders suspect the actual investment sum to be considerably higher. Around 391,000 visitors from 138 countries and 3,000 journalists from 84 countries traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany to gather information on innovations, developments and new fields of business. Accounting for 59 percent of the visitor total, international visitor participation increased by 4 percent compared to drupa 2004. Particularly contributing to this

DUSSELDORF, Germany—Martin Automatic has entered into a licensing agreement with press manufacturer Labelmen Machinery Co., Ltd. of Taiwan. Under the agreement, signed at drupa 2008, Labelmen will build Martin’s STS automatic splicers and STR turret rewinders for sale on equipment manufactured by Labelmen. “This marks the first time that Martin Automatic has chosen to partner with another company for the manufacturing of our products,” said Roger Cederholm, president of Martin Automatic Inc. “Labelmen is a substantial company with an excellent reputation. Our experience with them gives us every confidence that we have found a partner who will build our products to the same standard

Sun Chemical is partnering with Energy Sciences Inc (ESI) and Comexi Group to showcase the WetFlex™ flexographic printing technology at drupa—its first public demonstration. Being shown on the Comexi stand (Hall 10, Stand C62), WetFlex technology delivers wet-on-wet flexographic printing. It is designed to meet the needs of the flexible packaging market for improved print quality, efficiency, and low environmental impact. WetFlex uses inks that are a new generation energy curable ink technology specially developed and patented by Sun Chemical for the process. At drupa, the inks will be wet trapped using Comexi’s new iF2 Icube concept Central Impression (CI) cylinder press and cured