
INFOPACK NEWS _ 29/05/2023
Events - Fairs
Global print and packaging sector banks on drupa 2024: Exhibitors from 45 countries already on board
Some one and a half years before the start of the trade fair, drupa has reached an important milestone: over 100,000 sqm of net exhibition space have already been booked by around 900 exhibitors from 45 nations. This clearly underlines the relevance and the USP of drupa as the world’s No. 1 trade fair for print technologies. ( Read more... )

Innovation - Printing and labeling
What’s Holding Back Digitally Printed Packaging?
Tim Sykes, brand director at Packaging Europe, one of the leading intelligence resources for European packaging professionals, explores the barriers that may be holding back the digital tide. ( Read more... )

Events - Fairs
virtual.drupa provides vital stimulus for global print & packaging industry
virtual.drupa made history as the first purely digital version of the leading global trade fair for printing technologies, which took place from 20 to 23 April 2021. ( Read more... )

Events - Fairs
Convergence of print markets: Is it inevitable?
Be it physical or online – drupa will further strengthen its pre-eminent position as the ‘Olympic Games’ of Printing, while at the same time highlighting the convergence of markets ( Read more... )

Innovation - Printing and labeling
Digital Print for Corrugated – The Future Condition of Things
My great grandfather, Thomas Kirby, once said: “Wisdom lies not in regretting the inevitable but in adapting oneself to the altered condition of things”. ( Read more... )

Events - Fairs
drupa 2021 to be cancelled and goes online as ‘virtual.drupa’
Following close consultation with exhibitors and partners, the 2021 edition of drupa, the world’s leading trade fair for Printing Technologies, will be cancelled due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. ( Read more... )

Events - Fairs
Digital printing: from strength to strength in packaging
The evolution of customer demand as well as improvements in quality and speed are accelerating printing production for packaging. The first entirely digital printing and converting lines for packaging production will be born in a few years. ( Read more... )

Events - Fairs
Global print industry faces economic and environmental challenges
The results of the 7th drupa Global Trends Report, from a survey conducted before the outbreak of the corona virus and the postponement of drupa to April 2021, show a global industry that remained positive but reflected more challenging global economic conditions. Packaging and Functional market sectors are better placed than Publishing and Commercial. ( Read more... )

Markets - Circular Economy
Packaging in an e-commerce world
“Digital pre-print opens a new era for brand protection and brand activation in e-commerce. Smart, digitally printed corrugated cardboard packaging solutions inform, entertain and network the shopper. They warn of product counterfeiting and guarantee transparency in shipment and traceability. All this is now possible not only for short, but also for medium and long print runs. Hence, there is almost a paradox: that of individualised mass production.” ( Read more... )
