ME Printer May/June 2020 (Issue 178)

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THE CHALLENGES FACING THE

PACKAGING INDUSTRY

PACKAGING PRODUCTION IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE PRINT INDUSTRY. INSIDE, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHALLENGES FACING THIS CORNERSTONE OF OUR INDUSTRY AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR PRINTERS AND CONVERTERS.

LESS PRINT IS MORE

E-COMMERCE PACKAGING GROWING BECAUSE OF ONLINE SHOPPING SALES

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Contents Products and Applications

News Regional ME Printer and Canon Announce Joint Industry Market Research

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OKI Europe Offers Free Media and Artwork to Support Businesses with Social Distancing Measures

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Waterless Offset Printing at Gulf News Helps Conserve Water

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Canon Middle East Launches Door-toDoor Recycling Collection Service for Dubai Customers

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New Dates for Dubai Expo 2020 Announced

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International Cardbox Packaging Values Heidelberg as Partner in Packaging Printing

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Commercial Printing Company Invests in Automation with the Speedmaster XL 75

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Trioplast Nyborg Invests in Evo XG 8 LR From Koenig & Bauer

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New Recycling Recommendations Help Climate Efforts

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Esko and AVT Integrate Their Businesses to Extend Packaging Value Chain Connectivity Agfa to Host Virtual Event for Offset Printing Industry During Original drupa Time Frame

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DTM Print Launches the LX600e Colour Label Printer

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Evo XG for German Gift Wrapping Manufacturer

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Screen Develops High-Speed, Water-Based Inkjet System for Flexible Packaging

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Caldera Launches New Prepress Automation Solution

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Brother Announces New GTXpro BULK

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Roland DG Releases EJ-640 DECO Water-Based DĂŠcor Printer Across EMEA

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Asahi AWP-DEW 4260 PLF Delivers Higher Quality and Faster Processing

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Xaar 1003 Printhead Delivers For Industrial 3D Printing

Opinion and Insight 22

Sustainability Innovations Drive Growth for Functional and Barrier Coatings

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Global Functional Additive Sales for Plastic Packaging to Increase to $2.3 Billion

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E-commerce Packaging Growing in Tandem with Booming Online Shopping Sales

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The Global Wetlaid Non-Wovens Market to Grow at a Slowing Rate Across the Next Five Years

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Inkjet Print Market in 2020 is Worth $80.4 Billion and Still Set to Rise

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FMCG Packaging Market Size Is Expected to Reach up to $900 Billion by 2025

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Plastic Packaging Market Size is About to Cross $416.2 Billion by 2026

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Global Digital Textile Printing Ink Market Size to Register 16.3% CAGR Through 2026

Events Print4All Conference: Printing the Future, Now. Live Streaming Event on 24 June 2020

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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Organises Virtual Seminar on Alternative Publishing Platforms

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6-IN-1 Mega Show to be Held as Scheduled on July 22-24 in Dongguan!

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Vol. 17 / Issue 178 / May-June 2020

THE CHALLENGES FACING THE

PACKAGING INDUSTRY

PACKAGING PRODUCTION IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE PRINT INDUSTRY. INSIDE, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHALLENGES FACING THIS CORNERSTONE OF OUR INDUSTRY AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR PRINTERS AND CONVERTERS.

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LESS PRINT IS MORE

E-COMMERCE PACKAGING GROWING BECAUSE OF ONLINE SHOPPING SALES

Although almost all online businesses have some elements in common – strong automation, effective quality management, impeccable customer care – online printing is not an exact science, nor does it provide for a common or standard organisational model that can be adopted and copied indefinitely. The internet is instead a powerful interactive channel and as such it must be understood, exploited and supported. Check out inside, what the real prospects for growth and development are in this area, and which investments have to be made.

Correspondence and advertising material to be sent to ME Printer Magazine Office G05, Building 4, Dubai Media City, Dubai, UAE. or E-mail to: meprinter@meprinter.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission of the publisher. Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation of the editorial content, the publishers cannot be held responsible for any errors or omission.

Readers are requested to seek specialist advise before acting on information contained in this publication, which is provided for general use and may not be appropriate for the reader’s particular circumstances.

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News Regional

ME Printer and Canon Announce Joint Industry Market Research Regional insights into the printing industry are scarce. While information can be obtained in bits and pieces both online and offline, consistent industry-wide market research is yet to take place in the MEA region. Hence, ME Printer

has partnered with Canon to run a first of its kind printing industry market research.

The market study titled “Canon – ME Printer Printing Industry Survey” is a joint industry outlook survey that will attempt to unveil the opportunities, challenges, and market trends in the printing industry. The survey is divided into two parts: Canon-ME Printer Market Study 2020 and Canon – ME Printer Brand Owners Survey 2020.

The market study titled “Canon-ME Printer Market Study 2020” will attempt to unveil the opportunities, challenges, and market trends in the print industry, while the market study titled “Canon – ME Printer

Brand Owners Survey 2020” is a joint industry outlook survey that will attempt to unveil the opportunities, challenges, and market trends in the print industry.

Through this market survey, ME Printer will approach various industry stakeholders and brand owners for inputs on their views about the regional market, the technology trends, and market trends driving the industry forward. Inputs collated from the survey will be converted into an industry survey report and infographics which will be unveiled very soon by Canon. In order to participate in the survey, kindly go here: http://meprinter.com/canonme-printer-industry-survey-2020/

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OKI Europe Offers Free Media and Artwork to Support Businesses with Social Distancing Measures

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OKI Europe is providing free media and artwork to help support businesses both during the COVID-19 pandemic and through the transition back to a new normality. Recognising that it can be challenging for businesses to create and implement vital social distancing signage quickly, OKI Europe has partnered with Floralabels to offer organisations free media and artwork to create self-adhesive floor stickers that can be printed quickly and easily from an A3 colour printer.

This will enable businesses operating now and those re-opening after enforced closures to become

operational as quickly as possible while protecting the wellbeing of staff, customers and visitors.

The complimentary media pack includes circular floor stickers measuring 285 x 285mm and rectangular banners measuring 215 x 900mm and 297 x 1,320mm. The free supporting artwork available includes eye-catching designs and messaging that reminds people to keep two metres apart and indicates where customers should stand to maintain a safe distance when queueing.

“High impact visual communications are critical for encouraging social

distancing. Even as the strict controls start to be lifted, social distancing is likely to remain a requirement for some weeks, potentially months to come, so organisations need measures in place to encourage and remind staff and visitors to adhere to the rules,” says Ali Al-Salhi, Manager, Retail and Hospitality (Middle East).

“By providing free media and supporting artwork to businesses now and throughout the transition back to a new form of ‘business-as-usual’, we can help minimise the time it takes to print and implement essential social distancing signage and support businesses to be operational while complying with the government regulations required to tackle the spread of Covid-19.”

All supporting artwork has been tested using OKI’s award-winning C800 Series retail ready printers and the same highly durable self-adhesive Floralabels media included in the offer. To print the floor stickers, businesses will require access to a printer that has the capabilities to handle the media, formats and sizing of each sticker. Organisations that wish to take advantage of the offer should visit www.oki.com/me

Waterless Offset Printing at Gulf News Helps Conserve Water

located in the desert, water is a scarce resource, and implementing waterless offset printing in our new facility was an important decision, for us and for the planet.”

Renyold, who has been with the company for 15 years and recently took over responsibility for managing the Cortina press, adds that other decision criteria were the reduced waste, lower emissions and overall lower environmental footprint achieved with Cortina waterless offset printing using Toray IMPRIMA plates. Quality was another important factor. “This configuration gives us a very high level of quality,” Renyold notes.

“With the Toray IMPRIMA plates, we are able to produce a very fine dot, and dot gain is very low. We also use a 150-line screen. Together, that delivers exceptional quality.”

Renyold points out that this elevated quality level has enabled the company to produce gain in revenue thanks to the ability to produce very high-quality commercial work, which he says they were not able to do before. “We also value our relationship with Toray,” Renyold states. “We had the task of converting from conventional offset to waterless offset, while at the same time adding commercial applications. So, a fair amount of

change was required. Toray worked very closely with us during the implementation process from the inception, helping us produce the best possible quality plates on our Kodak Generation plate setter and marks-3Zet waterless plate processor. It was an extremely smooth implementation with their help, and the fact that our climate requires us to have a completely climate-controlled facility also made implementation much easier, with very consistent humidity levels in our paper stock. To achieve the high quality, we aimed at with our new waterless offset platform, we needed the consumables – including plates, inks and paper – to be very stable and work well together.

Toray worked with us to ensure we achieved that. They also visit us regularly to oversee our operation, and when we need help or support, they are right there to help us.

Toray is truly a valued partner for Gulf News. As a side note, we share our enthusiasm for supporting the tennis sport. We continue as the Official Newspaper supporting both the WTA Tour and the ATP 500 World Tour, while Toray has been a supporter of the International Tennis Foundation (ITF) World Cup Junior Tennis Finals for boys and girls under 14.”

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Gulf News, one of the leading English-language newspapers in the United Arab Emirates, has been using now for a couple of years the Koenig & Bauer Cortina waterless offset press with 12 towers, of which four are heatset, and is using the Toray IMPRIMA WA waterless offset plates. The company, with their facility in Dubai, has increased press utilization by adding commercial work serving the retail and magazine markets, including its own flagship weekly magazine, Friday.

It also converted from broadsheet to Berliner format in conjunction with the installation of the new press, a format that is increasingly popular in the international newspaper industry. The company’s state-of-the-art printing plant, located about 40 km from the city center, was opened in 2012 and employs about 100 production staff.

Overall corporate employment, including editorial staff, is at 800.

“We are very proud of our highly automated, state-of-the-art plant here in Dubai,” said Robert Renyold, Production Manager. “Not only is the facility completely climate controlled, but automation is everywhere, from our print room to paper storage and reel handling, mostly done with robots. Being

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News Regional

Canon Middle East Launches Door-to-Door Recycling Collection Service for Dubai Customers Canon Middle East has announced a positive development in the continued commitment to communities and sustainability with a one-month long customer collection service for those looking to continue to recycle their e-waste.

Canon Middle East’s authorised recycler in the UAE, Color Code, has been selected to support collection from customers’ homes.

Collectable items include Canon

consumables such as ink, toner, batteries, and paper as well as electronic waste such as old printers, cameras, and scanners. The initiative is aligned with wider efforts on the part of Canon to support the achievement of the United Nation’s Sustainability Goals (SDGs) with an environmentally conscious approach to the manufacturing and recycling of its products.

Commenting on the initiative, Mai

Youssef, Corporate Communications and Marketing Services Director, Canon Africa, Middle East, and Turkey, said, “As a business, we’ve been doing all we can to support the continuation of our activities despite the current environment.

We are steadfastly committed to our corporate sustainability responsibilities and one of these is our effort towards a clearer and more circular economy. Aligned with our corporate philosophy of kyosei – which means living and working together for the common good – we wanted to ensure that we continue to support our customers with positive and meaningful initiatives with a positive impact, whilst adhering to government guidelines and ensuring we all stay safe, at home.”

Canon is committed to a ‘no waste’ to landfill policy. Toner cartridges are recycled as far as possible – be it as a component in a new toner cartridge, as a base material in other industries. Between 1990 and 2018, Canon recycled more than 408,000 tonnes of cartridges globally, saving more than 601,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. To participate, customers simply need to fill in an online form with the details of their items for recycling as well as their home address and contact details, and collection will be implemented within 48 hours of the request: https://en.canon-me.com/sustainability/uae-recycling/

New Dates for Dubai Expo 2020 Announced

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Expo 2020 Dubai has been postponed and will be held from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. The

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decision has been declared after the two-thirds majority of the votes was surpassed within a week of voting, opening on 24 April. With the current COVID-19 situation, a BIE General Assembly was impossible to stage, therefore officials had to vote remotely.

A two-thirds majority of Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Member States voted, within a week, in favor of postponing the next World Expo by one year, “as proposed by the UAE Government

at the beginning of April and recommended by the BIE Executive Committee on April 21”.

In its official statement, Expo 2020 Dubai declared that “We welcome this final decision, which allows participating countries around the globe to safely navigate the impact of COVID-19. This additional time also allows us to prepare to welcome a more united and resilient world in 2021, where we will collectively celebrate culture, creativity, and innovation”.

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Cardbox Packaging Values Heidelberg as Partner in Packaging Printing

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Cardbox Packaging is an international manufacturer of high-quality and technically sophisticated folding cartons with an annual turnover of around 45 million euros. The company operates production sites in Austria (Wolfsberg and Pinkafeld), the Czech Republic (Zádveřice), and most recently in the United States (Pittston, PA). Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) supported the setup in Pittston with extensive consulting services and an overall solution package comprising machines, service, and consumables. Cardbox Packaging is supported and advised by the Global and International Account Group at Heidelberg.

The goal of Cardbox Packaging is to expand the business through the addition of new sites and to give each location a sustainable orientation. From the beginning, the company has counted on strategic partners for this purpose.

“One of the main reasons for the success of our expansion strategy is that we brought the right partners on board, Greiner Packaging, and Heidelberg. Both are innovative and customer-oriented – and that’s how we see ourselves too,” says Roland Schöberl, CEO Cardbox Packaging Holding.

The joint venture with Greiner Packaging, one of the world’s leading providers of plastic packagings with sites around the globe, paved the way into the North American market. When another major customer, a brand owner based in Europe, indicated its intention to have its folding cartons produced at Cardbox Packaging in the future, the move across the Atlantic was a foregone conclusion. However, the market in the US works differently to Europe in all regards, whether consumers, clients, or suppliers.

Cardbox Packaging therefore intensified its collaboration with Heidelberg as a global partner.

At the same time as it was moving into the new building, Heidelberg supplied the equipment and established a lean production system with short supply chains and an efficient material flow. All processes were thoroughly analyzed and geared to economic efficiency. A Suprasetter CtP system is used for imaging in prepress, while a Speedmaster XL 106 six-color press runs with double coating and full logistics in the pressroom. The sheets are finished with the Promatrix CSB die cutter and the Diana Easy folder gluer in postpress. The Prinect Production

Manager workflow provides for integrating these processes.

The CtP system was delivered with a plate supply contract, Saphira Pressroom Consumables are used and Cardbox Packaging also relies on the service of Heidelberg. “With the 36 Plus service agreement, we’re buying ourselves production reliability. We know from experience that it’s definitely worth it, because it helps us to avoid unscheduled downtimes,” says Roland Schöberl. The service package also includes production analyses of where and how further saving potentials can be realized.

Cardbox Packaging also benefits from a streamlined supply chain and much lower complexity.

“Instead of negotiating with several suppliers, we get everything from one source, from Heidelberg. This makes a lot of things easier. We save process costs, and the reduction of the workload in day-to-day business frees us up to focus on key topics such as new offerings for our customers,” says Roland Schöberl.

Cardbox Packaging also built on the positive experience with Heidelberg equipment at its Austrian sites, with a Speedmaster XL 1066+L with full logistics in operation in Wolfsberg, and a Diana Pro as well as a Promatrix CSB in Pinkafeld.

Around 20 employees work at the Pittston site, producing packaging primarily for brand manufacturers in the confectionery, food and cosmetics industries. “We respond flexibly to our customers’ wishes and offer customized, tailored solutions.

However, the price is the ultimate deciding factor,” says Klaus Hockl, CEO Cardbox Packaging Holding.

Due to the intensive competitive pressure, costings are done very precisely and the effort involved in the job change is very accurately analyzed. Particularly with short runs, every second counts. All print jobs – even non-food jobs – are therefore produced using food-safe, low-migration consumables. This shortens the changeover times and reduces the amount of makeready required. At the same time, Cardbox Packaging can reliably meet the high requirements of its food customers.

Commercial Printing Company Invests in Automation with the Speedmaster XL 75 Quality, service, speed – these are the pillars of printing company Offset Friedrich in Ubstadt-Weiher on which the family business has built its success and continues to grow, despite strong competition. “We strive to work profitably and need a high level of automation, which is something the Speedmaster XL 75 can deliver on a permanent basis,” confirms Managing Director Marcus Friedrich. He has been producing on a Speedmaster XL 75 five-color press with the new Prinect Press Center and the Heidelberg Operating System in a field test since mid-2019. The Push to Stop concept and the Prinect Production Manager provide optimal support for the printer.

“What impressed us most about the Speedmaster XL 75, in addition to the new control system, is the increased printing speed of 16,500 sheets per hour, which we consistently and stably use for most substrates. We were also able to reduce waste paper by about two thirds,” summarizes Marcus Friedrich his positive experience. “We’ve always invested in innovations and stateof-the-art machines,” explains Marcus Friedrich. “So we jumped at the chance to be involved in field testing the new operating system.”

The company has up to fifteen employees and also provides apprenticeships. End customers are offered virtually the entire spectrum of classic offset printing, supplemented by toner-based digital printing. Other printing companies are also known to avail of Friedrich’s high quality. Gram-

mages range from 80 g/m2 to 135 g/m2 and up to 250 g/m2 picture paper, which delivers a high level of flexibility. Offset printing is used for 80 percent of production, with digital printing used for shorter runs and personalized orders. The Speedmaster XL 75 replaced two printing presses from another manufacturer. Marcus Friedrich has been a loyal customer of Heidelberg ever since and greatly values the partnership-based relationship.

In prepress, imaging is handled by a Suprasetter while another Heidelberg machine produces the printing plates. In postpress, a Stahlfolder machine and a Polar cutting unit are used. When it comes to consumables, Friedrich uses Saphira Eco inks. “Never change a running system – we do everything

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at top speed, and the inks optimally coordinated to the machine are completely compatible with this,” confirms Marcus Friedrich. Together with the reduction in paper waste and the environmentally compatible inks, Friedrich’s production is highly sustainable. With the Speedmaster XL 75 five-color press and the new Speedmaster Operating System, Friedrich now offers its operators a modern, attractive workstation.

Intellistart 3, the digital makeready assistant on the Prinect Press Center machine control station, enables a high level of productivity. The 24inch multi-touchscreen shows the operator the extended job queue, which displays all job data from the digital Prinect print shop workflow in a clear format. The job queue makes it possible to prepare for job changes using the automatically generated process view while production is still underway. During the job change, Intelliguide simulates the time-optimized sequence live and, if necessary, also includes the steps to be executed manually.

For example, Intellirun shows the mask for preparing the next job in good time before the current run is completed. The operator can see at a glance whether anything is missing and can intervene if necessary in a good time. A lot of time losses can be eliminated or at least minimized through timely preparation.

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Trioplast Nyborg Invests in Evo XG 8 LR From Koenig & Bauer Trioplast Nyborg is investing in an Evo XG 8 LR from Koenig & Bauer for printing polyethylene films for industrial packaging. The tailormade flexo printing machine with a maximum repeat length of up to 1400mm and print width of max.

1650mm prints in high quality on wide web. It is designed for large print jobs for industrial packaging applications and scheduled to start production Q2 2021.

Håkan Rundén, Sales & Service Director of Koenig & Bauer DK states: “This was a great team effort. The colleagues from Koenig & Bauer Flexotecnica supported us perfectly in the consulting process and implemented all special customer requirements”. Luigi Magliocchi, CEO of Koenig & Bauer Flexotecnica adds “After the unrivalled printing results achieved in Italy on the Evo XG printing machine, we are

pleased that Trioplast continues to rely on Koenig & Bauer as a reliable partner and wants to realize future growth with us.”

“This stack type flexo press replaces three of our old presses,” adds Trioplast’s Chief Procurement Officer Oskar Karlsson proudly. A further, even larger press, an Evo XG 10 LR, is to be ordered in 2021. The Evo XG series consists of highly automated CI flexographic printing machines for the efficient processing of a wide range of films, papers and cardboards at production speeds of up to 600 m/min.

Trioplast Nyborg is part of the Trioplast Group. Trioplast is an industrial group with just over 1,200 employees and a turnover of 540 million EUR. The group is one of the leading European players in innovative, sustainable and cost-efficient packaging solutions based on polyethylene film.

It operates production facilities in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and France and sells its products on a global market. The main owner of Trioplast is Altor Funds.

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New Recycling Recommendations Help Climate Efforts

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In the UK new recommendations allow paperboard packaging to contain up to 15 per cent plastic and still be considered recyclable.

One item of such packaging can have 80 per cent less climate impact compared with the corresponding all-plastic packaging.

Paperboard packaging with a thin plastic barrier is an ideal compromise which combines paperboard’s stiffness for the construction with plastic’s impermeability for such purposes as a longer food lifespan.

This type of packaging reduces the use of plastic and has far less climate impact than the equivalent packaging made only of plastic.

However, opinion has been divided over whether and how this type of packaging can be recycled. The answer depends mainly on which technology is available in each local market. This has been the case

in the UK, which has lacked clear advice on how packaging made of such combination materials should be recycled.

At the beginning of 2020, the UK labelling organisation OPRL (On-Pack Recycling Label) issued guidelines for how to recycle packaging made of paper and board with a plastic coating. The guidelines were developed in cooperation with the relevant industry organisations and specify which recycling label should be put on the packaging to advise consumers. The new recommendations state that packaging can contain up to 15 per cent plastic and still be classified as recyclable and be sorted in the waste stream for paper materials. As of January 2023 the permitted plastic content will be reduced to 10 per cent of the packaging’s weight.

“This is a good decision which es-

tablishes clear rules for a number of years ahead,” comments Ginny Samuel, Business Development Manager at Iggesund Paperboard.

“Those of us who work with paper- and paperboard-based packaging have been challenged to develop solutions using less material but we’ve also been given time to do this.”

OPRL originally wanted to allow far less than 15 per cent plastic content in fibre-based packaging.

But increasing awareness of packaging’s climate impact has already persuaded numerous major brand owners to start replacing their all-plastic solutions. This is particularly the case with food packaging, where plastic is often necessary as a barrier against moisture, grease or aroma. Setting the limit for plastic content too low would have risked slowing down this development.

Esko and AVT Integrate Their Businesses to Extend Packaging Value Chain Connectivity

Mattias Byström, president, Packaging & Color Businesses at Danaher

measurement and communication between parties across the global packaging value chain. By removing the organizational barriers between AVT and Esko, we are expediting this vision.”

The aim of the new organization is for customers to communicate and measure print quality and color, from end to end on a global basis, delivering easier, faster, and more accurate right first time production to boost operational performance and ultimately customer satisfaction. Roy Porat, President of AVT, added: “Above all, this integration will absolutely deliver simplicity. It will be easier for printers to measure print quality and color, easier for operators to hit quality

and color targets, easier for teams to track and share quality and color data, and easier for business leaders to buy and implement these solutions. Bringing our combined strengths together to deliver a complete solution is an exciting opportunity for our customers and our business.”

Esko and AVT have already released AutoSet, a digital link between Automation Engine, the Esko packaging prepress workflow server, and the AVT 100% print inspection solutions. Enabling Automation Engine to setup AVT inspection systems on conventional and digital presses, as well as on rewinders in an automated way, the development forged the path for the two businesses to work more closely together. AVT was acquired by Danaher, the Esko parent company, in 2017 to support its vision of digitizing the packaging value chain. Mattias Byström expanded his leadership role from Esko President to include oversight of AVT in August 2019. This latest strategic move is the formalization of the strategy to create a combined position to better serve brands and their print and packaging supply chain partners with comprehensive hardware and software solutions.

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Esko, a global developer of integrated hardware and software solutions for the print, packaging and label industries, and AVT Inspection Systems Inc. (‘AVT’), global provider of print inspection, process control and quality assurance solutions, are pleased to announce the integration of their businesses. Effective immediately, the integration is designed to deliver simplicity and extended connectivity for both Esko and AVT customers by incorporating automated quality inspection into the connected packaging and labeling value chains.

Mattias Byström, Esko + AVTSharing many of the same customers around the world, the combined business will see expansion of its sales and technical service teams with enhanced local representation, ensuring customers and OEM partners receive the same level of customer service and technical excellence they have come to expect from both companies. Mattias Byström, President, Packaging & Color Businesses at Danaher (Pantone, Esko & X-Rite), commented, “We are on a mission to build trust in packaging for the long term. This means we are focused on continuously improving the specification,

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The graphic world prepared for drupa, and so did we…

Drupa may have been postponed to 2021, but our commitment to the printing industry stands strong.

Meet our experts in Studio 4D48 for a series of webinars and discover how you can benefit from the latest market-driven,

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printing innovations.

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Discover the complete webinar list and register on

www.studio4D48.com

Thu 18.06 / 10:00 CET or 16:00 CET

Agfa’s solutions for the VLF commercial heatset market

Fri 19.06 / 10:00 CET or 16:00 CET It’s all about automation

Tue 23.06 / 10:00 CET or 16:00 CET Agfa’s solutions for the commercial sheet-fed market

Wed 24.06 / 10:00 CET or 16:00 CET Agfa’s solutions

Thu 25.06 / 10:00 CET or 16:00 CET Automation is key in newspaper print production › a fitness update for entrepreneurs

Agfa has announced Studio 4D48, a six-day virtual event featuring sessions to support printing companies worldwide through the current business challenges and help them plan for the future. The event will run from 18 to 26 June, coinciding with the original drupa time frame.

The series of targeted educational webinars focuses on market and technology trends as well as on the way printing companies can benefit from Agfa’s latest made-to-measure printing innovations for the offset printing industry. These include printing plates, hardware and a range of workflow, color management, print standardization and screening software. All of them underpin Agfa’s ECO³ approach, aimed at making print operations more economical, ecological and extra convenient.

“4D48 would have been our booth number at drupa,” says Guy Desmet, Head of Marketing for Agfa’s business division Offset Solutions. “Drupa and other tradeshows may have been postponed or even cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but our commitment to the printing industry stands strong.

We want to inspire and engage printing companies. In Studio 4D48, our experts will give them an update on our offering, and how it can move their businesses forward in a cost-effective way.”

In total, the event will play host to two webinars per day across the six days, consisting of a mix of expert talks, user cases and Q&A sessions. Each webinar focuses on a specific market segment, including commercial heatset and sheet-fed printing, offset packaging, and newspaper print production.

Various kinds of automation and efficiency increases, as well as cost reduction will be a common thread. All webinars will be streamed from Agfa’s headquarters in Belgium, in English.

They will last between 30 and 45 minutes each.

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DTM Print Launches the LX600e Colour Label Printer

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DTM Print, international OEM and solution provider for specialty printing systems, today announced the EMEA sales start of the LX600e Color Label Printer, the newest product of US manufacturer Primera Technology, Inc. LX600e is a compact and lightweight desktop colour label printer with a maximum print width of 127 mm and a print speed of up to 114 mm per second, which is the best-in-class throughput.

Compared to other similarly priced colour label printers, LX600e has many advantages: ■ Print Quality: horizontal banding is a common problem with many lower-cost desktop colour label printers. Not so on LX600e. Banding is virtually eliminated even on the fastest print speeds.

■ Interchangeable Dye or Pigment Inks: with a simple swapout of ink cartridges, LX600e can print with dye-based ink for a brilliant, eye-popping colour. Or, choose pigment ink for maximum durability against

water and UV light. Both types of ink work interchangeably on the same printer. Primera’s pigment ink has one of the broadest colour gamuts available on any desktop colour label printer with excellent lightfastness.

■ Single Ink SKU: LX600e utilises an ultra-high capacity single CMY ink tank. Users will only need to replace and keep onhand one ink tank instead of two or four. The inventory of ink is simplified and ink swaps are fast and easy. Process black is dark and crisp. Best of all, process black uses no more ink than a separate black ink tank

would for printing the same amount of text or graphics.

■ Low Maintenance: gone are the days of clogged nozzles, and unwieldy and expensive print head replacements. Users get a brand new print head each time they change the cartridge, simplifying maintenance and dramatically lowering on-going operating costs.

■ Small Footprint: with its dimensions of 345 mm x 242 mm x 432 mm (WxHxD) the LX600e is one of the most compact printers, making it a good fit for applications where space is tight.

■ Ultra-Low Weight: with its just 5 kg including ink cartridge the LX600e is the lightest compact colour label printer in the market.

■ Ultra-Low Energy Consumption: with an active 30 Watts and 3 Watts standby it uses significantly less energy than its competitors.

Typical applications include product labels for coffee, wine, water, bakery, confectionery, meat, cheese, and hundreds of other specialty and gourmet foods. The printer is also ideal for manufacturing, laboratory, security, government, retail, convention and meeting badges, and a wide variety of different markets.

“DTM Print provides its customers a wide selection DTM certified Genuine Label Stock for inkjet printers: starting with matte and glossy papers extending to transparent, matte and glossy polyester films as well as specialities like metallic gold and silver or pre-coloured substrates. We are delighted to introduce the LX600e to the EMEA market,” said Andreas Hoffmann, Managing Director of DTM Print. “It offers many useful features, including a wider print width, higher print quality and easier to manage consumables than other similarlypriced colour label printers. We believe that it will appeal to a wide range of companies and organisations that require the best-looking labels that they can produce on a desktop colour label printer.”

Evo XG for German Gift Wrapping Manufacturer

Arno Vogelhuber, senior sales manager at Koenig & Bauer Flexotecnica

tecnica: “We accepted the challenge posed by the customer’s special requirements and, over the course of the project, have demonstrated that we are the ideal partner for Zöllner-Wiethoff.

Presses from Koenig & Bauer stand for sustainability, quality and performance on the basis of an optimally suitable technical equipment.”

The Evo XG is a highly automated flexo printing press embodying top-class technologies for production speeds up to 600 m/min.

Consistent automation paired with a robust and ergonomic design is the key to exceptional performance in terms of both quality and productivity.

Zöllner-Wiethoff GmbH was founded by Franz Zöllner-Wiethoff in Oberlauter in Northern Bavaria over 70 years ago and is currently managed by the third generation of the founding family. The company has been printing exclusively with water-based inks for more than 20 years and has developed into one of the most significant manufacturers of high-quality sustainable gift packaging in Europe. More than 200 million metres of gift-wrapping paper are printed every year.

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Zöllner-Wiethoff GmbH is investing in a CI flexo printing press from Koenig & Bauer. The ultramodern Evo XG 8 + 1 is scheduled to enter production in early 2021 and will be used to print wrapping paper of all kinds. “We attach particular importance to the ecological and quality aspects of our products. The Evo XG is here precisely the kind of machine we were looking for. We are convinced that we have made the right decision and that we will now be able to further strengthen our position European market leaders,” says Jürgen Popp, owner and managing director of Zöllner-Wiethoff.

The company’s use of a wide range of different papers, some with a high proportion of recycled fibres, along with a seemingly endless diversity of designs printed exclusively with water-based inks all had to be taken into consideration in the technical configuration for a new press.

Arno Vogelhuber, senior sales manager at Koenig & Bauer Flexo-

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Screen Develops High-Speed, Water-Based Inkjet System for Flexible Packaging SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co., Ltd. has finalized development of its PacJet FL830, a new high-speed, water-based inkjet system specifically designed for the flexible packaging market. The PacJet FL830 is currently scheduled for release around March 2021.

In recent years, the packaging industry has seen a significant expansion in its ongoing changeover from hard packaging such as cans and glass containers to flexible

packaging, which offers both superior lightness and functionality.

Within the printing industry, the flexible packaging segment is likewise being affected by continuing changes in consumer lifestyles and diversification of marketing techniques. These trends are driving a growing requirement for diversified, small lot printing capabilities with shorter turnaround times and greater personalization. As a result of these needs, printing companies

have started to introduce digital systems in some areas.

However, limitations on factors such as productivity, stability and processing have so far seen their use confined to mainly promotional applications. This shortfall has led to growing calls from industry participants for digital systems that are able to deliver both high quality and rapid throughput for full-scale production applications.

In response to these trends, SCREEN GA has been working in conjunction with SCREEN Holdings to develop the PacJet FL830. This new highspeed, water-based inkjet printing system is specially designed for flexible packaging and can handle media up to 830 millimeters wide at industry-leading speeds of up to 75 meters per minute. It is also capable of printing at a resolution of 1,200 dpi using CMYK and white water-based inks that conform to relevant food safety regulations.

These features allow it to deliver both the excellent safety and rich color expression that is essential for the food products industry.

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Caldera Launches New Prepress Automation Solution

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French RIP software specialist Caldera has announced the launch of a new product for June 2020.

Caldera PrimeCenter is a prepress automation solution designed to help wide format digital printers to save time as they prepare jobs for printing. We are enabling the move from a “ready to print” to a “ready to produce” mind-set. Developed in cooperation with Zünd, this Caldera-owned and branded product will be available for delivery from mid-June.

This new software solution sits upstream from the RIP, and has been created to fit easily into a Print&Cut workflow, enabling production to be scaled. PrimeCenter not only consolidates preflight, bleeding and nesting into one tool, it also

reduces the level of manual errors, while saving time on file preparation. Different input image files coming in from clients – pdf, tif, jpeg, png – can be automatically prepared and optimized. These files are preflighted, marked and nested together, into “ready for production” layouts that save valuable prepress and production time. PrimeCenter doesn’t replace the RIP as it does not directly drive any printer or cutter, but acts as a firewall, preventing earlier issues at the production stage.

The Caldera PrimeCenter bestows multiple benefits for users. There are valuable time savings to be made during the preparation of jobs for Print&Cut production, resulting in increased automation

and operator productivity. The optimized nesting feature will also generate media savings, as well as saving time spent on nesting and layouts. Manual nesting and cut marks are avoided. Production is streamlined thanks to the PrimeCenter’s ability to inject job meta data, and this contributes to complete workflow tracking using XML to connect to MIS and ERP solutions.

The target audience for the new product includes all sizes of print shop and the core users will be the prepress operators who prepare files for production. The PrimeCenter’s remit includes unique actions designed to automate roll-up, POS, stickers, backlit, banners production and more.

Brother Announces New GTXpro BULK

Textile ink available in 2kg and 20kg containers.

New Industrial White Print Head Design: Newly developed white ink print head technology for inside- ink-circulation. This results in a reduction of white ink waste.

Reduced Maintenance & Time: Less Maintenance - no need for morning preparation anymore.

Less waiting time – the new cap design leads to 40% less purging time, the larger colour sub-tanks are refilled during the printing process. Print reservation function for higher productivity.

High-Speed Print Mode: The new white ink print head design allows to use more nozzles than previous models and by choosing “fast mode” in the print settings you can print up to 10% faster than before.

Optimal Print Height: The sensor detects if the textile touches the

print head. In addition, the new sensor technology detects whether the platen is too low in order to reduce ink mist and assure a high print quality. The “low sensor function” can be disabled if required.

At Your Side: Installation and training by an authorized Brother DTG technician. Environmentally friendly - OekoTex passport and GOTS 5.0 certified inks.

All above mentioned features can be found in a contemporary, compact machine that fully meets all the requirements of mass production. Thanks to our more than 15 years of experience in the direct-to-garment business and through intensive discussions with customers and experts, we have succeeded in developing a mass production machine that meets all market requirements, available on 1st June 2020.

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It is time for new equipment from your well-known partner in the digital textile printing business, focused on mass production features.

With the introduction of the GTX printer three years ago, we have redefined the standards in directto-garment printing.

Now the time has come to go one step further and combine the advantages of the GTX with an innovative bulk ink system, together with a new, improved print head and a whole range of features. The result is a spacesaving and reasonably priced industrial direct-to-garment printer for mass production without sacrificing the well-known advantages of the GTX. Ink Supply System: Revolutionary New Bulk Ink system. Cost-saving bulk ink system for large production quantities. Brother Innobella

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Roland DG Releases EJ-640 DECO Water-Based Décor Printer Across EMEA

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The new EJ-640 DECO printer from Roland DG is now available across EMEA. Designed specifically for the interior décor market, the EJ-640 DECO runs innovative water-based inks. The Roland EJ-640 DECO meets numerous demands from today's market: sustainability, health and safety, personalisation, economy and versatility.

The solution is ideal for a variety of customised décor products including wallpaper, lampshades, blinds and posters, plus exhibition graphics, outdoor promotions and more. For The Print Hive, the Roland EJ-640 DECO is integral to its bespoke digital wallpaper printing service, powered by its Online Designer tool. This allows customers to design their own personalised wallpaper and visualise it in their own home, receive a tailored quotation and place an order online.

"We have seen significant growth in demand for décor in the retail, commercial and domestic markets," says Chaz Dobson, Director at The Print Hive Limited. "After testing the EJ-640 DECO for six months we have switched completely from another brand to the new Roland for all of our décor and wallpaper.

"We're convinced by the benefits

of a water-based solution that meets all health and safety requirements without productivity or quality constraints. We're positively impressed by the EJ-640 DECO's fast turnaround speeds – prints are instantly dry, with no outgassing required – and the low running costs compared to alternative solutions."

Ahlstrom-Munksjo, the leading manufacturer of wallpaper for digital printing under the WallStar Digital brand, welcomes the Roland EJ-640 DECO. Jean-Loup

Duran, Sales Manager, Digital Media, Nonwoven at Ahlstrom-Munksjo, comments: "Now is the perfect time for a dedicated décor device.

All major projections see décor as a strong market for the future, with 20% year-on-year growth predicted for digital wallpaper alone.

The market will be delighted that a printer manufacturer sees décor as more than a new application for existing ink types and has developed a dedicated solution." The Roland EJ-640 DECO is available now across EMEA.

Asahi AWP-DEW 4260 PLF Delivers Higher Quality and Faster Processing end users in the market. New features as compared to the older model include: ■ Integrated plate punching system for pin bar ■ Integrated air knife after plate rinsing unit to dry the plate ■ Higher post-exposure uniformity with inline UVA and UVC light finishing ■ Filter unit is located inside the machine with easy roll-out operator access ■ New machine maintenance concept including low maintenance pumps and easy pipe layout ■ Water safety tray located on the side frame without the need to clean leaked solution ■ Asahi remote human machine interface (HMI) access and optional smart glass support system (future option) ■ Optimized machine footprint at 6112 x 2070 x 1295 mm (smaller vs. separate units) “With the introduction of the new processor, Asahi has also realized the need to improve its AWP machine maintenance concept for our customers. As just-in-time production today is very important, the AWP-DEW 4260 PLF processor has a modem communication link on all machines to the processor’s human machine interface (HMI).

This allows our technical support team to connect with the customer machine from any location for first level maintenance support.

Our experience shows that 60% of the causes of all machine-related service issues can be traced with this support. In addition to tracing the cause of any problems, Asahi has also introduced a remote smart glass support concept as a future option on all systems,” according to the company.

According to Alex Downes, Asahi Service Engineer, “The difference this functionality makes is unbelievable; pictures can explain so much more than words. A typical support interaction with a customer which took me hours of travel time in the past can now pin point the detailed problem in no time, allowing us to

either fix the problem immediately or at least send the exact needed spare part to the customer. If we didn’t have the appropriate part with us on a traditional service call, that often required an additional visit, leading to more cost and potentially a longer down time. Now everything can be done quickly and in one step, often eliminating the need for any travel at all and getting the customer up and running quickly.” Niederstadt added, “Based on what we have seen in the start-up phase of this new service, we believe we can speed-up our service and reduce the amount of travel by half. This will better utilise our engineers and provide higher quality service for our customers.”

“Following the announcement of the AWP-DEW 4260 PLF processor at Labelexpo Europe in 2019, the first prototype machine was installed at a flexible packaging printer/converter,” Niederstadt added. “Now looking back over the last nine months of testing and more than 4.000 square meters of plate production, we are ready to bring this innovative processor into the market together with our AWP-DEW plate.” AWP-DEW digital flexo plates are ideal for use with UV, EB, water-based and solventbased inks and make a transition to Fixed Colour Palette printing easy, minimizing the need to use a larger number of spot colour inks.

These durable plates also deliver improved plate lifetime on press.

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Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, today announced availability of it’s next-generation larger format water-wash flexographic plate processor, the AWP-DEW 4260 PLF. This is the first water-wash processor of its kind with an automated process from plate wash-out to the UV finished plate including plate processing, rinsing, drying and UV post exposure within one system.

“The market of larger volume users for AWP flexo plates and particularly for flexible packaging applications is growing,” said Dieter Niederstadt, Technical Marketing Manager. “For that reason, it was time for us to introduce a new member to our largest format processor family. Exclusively focusing on using the new AWP-DEW plate with this processor allows us to reduce the environmental footprint of the platemaking process by reducing the content of additives in the washout solution. It also allows us to speed-up the time for each plate coming out of the line dramatically.”

The system is designed to be able to use two standard formats at approx. 3-5 plates per hour, either 1200x 900 mm (48 x 36 inch) or 1067 x 1524 mm (42 x 60 inch), which gives both Asahi and its customers incredible flexibility in machine utilization. Plus, The AWP-DEW 4260 PLF is an automated combination of washer-dryer-light finishing, providing the opportunity for reduction of operator hands on requirements and potential associated errors.

For customers already having a separate light finisher, the AWPDEW 4260 PLF processor is available in a version without the light finisher function. This processor combination is the first incremental system of its kind and also features an improved UVA/UVC inline post exposure uniformity vs. offline systems with light finishing drawer.

The AWP-DEW 4260 PLF processor is the successor development to Asahi’s 1116PD processor which has been used by many high-volume

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Xaar 1003 Printhead Delivers For Industrial 3D Printing

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The Xaar 1003 printhead is proving instrumental for industrial 3D printing manufacturer dp polar GmbH, enabling its revolutionary AMpolar i2 to print Additive Manufacturing parts on a truly industrial scale.

Based in Germany, dp polar designs, develops and delivers industrial 3D printing systems for the automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering, and consumer industries.

The AMpolar i2’s patented Additive Manufacturing process uses an array of Xaar 1003 printheads to jet parts at volume, and at a significantly reduced cost when compared to traditional 3D printing machines.

The highly productive single-pass printing process delivers build volumes of up to 700 liters across its pioneering, continuously rotating print platform. For example, the AMpolar i2 machine is able to produce over 500,000 automotive electronic power-plugs per year at the lowest costs per part. Achieving the same output with traditional

3D printers would require the operation of multiple machines, requiring substantially more initial investment, and increasing costs and complexity across production.

Hans Mathea, managing director and founder of dp polar said, “The AMpolar i2 delivers unparalleled output of printed parts per hour, resulting in a significant reduction in cost per part. “The Xaar 1003 is integral to the machine’s design and performance and the ability to handle multiple fluids means that 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing are now a reality for the

volume production of parts for many industries.”

As part of Xaar’s extensive printhead portfolio, the Xaar 1003 is proving invaluable for the industrialization of 3D Printing with its speed, reliability and ability to jet a variety of fluids, over an increased viscosity range. This ensures a suitable fit for a wide range of Additive Manufacturing applications. Mike Seal, Xaar’s Business Development Manager, Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printheads said; “dp polar’s use of the Xaar 1003 printhead and the innovative design of the AMpolar i2, shows the natural progression of photopolymer jetting from a prototyping technology to a true manufacturing process; a transition we are seeing more and more within functional inkjet applications.

“We are delighted to see the AMpolar i2 utilize Xaar’s printhead technology and make the volume production of industrial parts through 3D Printing a reality.”

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Sustainability Innovations Drive Growth for Functional and Barrier Coatings

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Shareholder and consumer demands for more sustainable packaging have businesses responding by increasing measures to provide environmentally friendly alternatives, according to The Future of Functional & Barrier Coatings for Paper & Board to 2024, a new report from Smithers.

The market for functional and barrier coatings used in paper and board packaging applications topped 3 million tonnes in 2018; the total market will increase by an additional 1.5 million tonnes to 2024, adding roughly $3.2 billion to the total value at constant 2018 prices, an average CAGR of 7.7%.

Brand owners and retailers who are looking to improve their environmentally friendly credentials are driving the use of recycled and recyclable materials in packaging, which is creating pull-through demand in paper and board manufacturing. Recycled fibers accounted for 73% of the total volume of containerboard production in 2011, growing to about 77% in 2018 and expected to make up just under 80% of the total volume in 2023.

Trends in food packaging Food and beverage packaging

accounts for some 80% of demand for coating on paper and board packaging and thus it is useful to understand the anticipated growth in demand for the various types of packaging used in food applications.

Flexible plastic packaging materials are expected to show the highest value growth over the period from 2019 to 2024, while metal and other materials such as wood are expected to show below-average growth.

Total packaging demand by value is likely to grow by nearly 3% annually across the five-year period.

Paper board and flexible paper demand will grow by 3% to 3.5%.

Water vs solvent There is a growing trend to change from solvent-based coatings to water-based, which will reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions and provide safer working environments for workers. Much developmental work is underway to progress commercially viable water-based functional and barrier coatings for paper and board packaging applications in an effort to find alternatives to extruded plastics, especially polyethylene and PET,

paraffin-based wax, silicones and fluorochemicals.

Technology and application trends The industry is taking numerous innovative actions to develop new technologies and efficiencies in the coatings market. Circular polymers, launched by SABIC in January 2019, represent a disruptive innovation in plastics recycling. Plastics are expected to become more acceptable to retailers, brand owners, and consumers.

Alternatives to wax-based coatings continue to be the focus of much developmental effort, with products such as hydrogenated tallow diglyceride commercially available and starting to penetrate this market. Antimicrobial coatings that offer enhanced barrier properties are under development.

Biomaterials have long been the focus of significant research and will ultimately result in the erosion of the petroleum-based polymer coatings market. Improved coating application technologies, such as curtain and slide coating processes, are creating the opportunity for greater efficiencies and costeffectiveness in coating processes.

Global Functional Additive Sales for Plastic Packaging to Increase to $2.3 Billion Global functional additive sales for plastic packaging are forecast to grow during 2020–25 at an annual average rate of 5.3% to approximately $2.3 billion from $1.7 billion in 2019. Whilst global barrier coating sales for plastic packaging are forecast to grow during 2020–25 at an annual average rate of 4.9% to $2.4 billion to $1.8 billion.

With rapidly increasing demand for packaging materials that give even greater protection to their contents, a variety of barrier technologies have been commercialised that preserve, protect and optimise product shelf life, reduce the need for preservatives, provide transparency and gloss, and serve as a printing substrate. Without barrier packaging, perishable goods such as food, beverages and pharmaceuticals would be susceptible to a wide range of deterioration processes.

Smithers’ analysis for ‘The Future of Functional Additives & Barrier

Coatings for Plastics Packaging to 2025’ identifies the following key trends and drivers for the industry over the next five years: ■ Economic influences - the outlook for functional additives and barrier coatings demand for plastic packaging will be influenced by global economic growth trends over the forecast period.

■ Demographic & lifestyle influences – recent changes across consumer lifestyles are influencing consumer decisions, from growing urbanisation, growing middle class, greater increase in health and wellness, ‘on-the-go’ consumption and more ■ Convenience - time-pressured consumers want convenience products and packaging such as microwavable ready meals and pre-cut vegetables.

■ Sustainable Packaging - brand owners are responding to consumers’ environmental concerns

in several ways; these include package lightweighting by reducing material usage without impairing pack performance, using recycled plastic and adopting bioplastic packaging.

■ Modern retailing - a shift towards a more centralised structure of grocery retailing has inevitably led to higher levels of packaging, particularly for fresh foods, chilled foods and baked products.

■ Consumer concern on food waste and food safety - there is growing use of active packaging technologies such as ethylene and oxygen scavenging, antimicrobial, antioxidant and antifungal additives.

■ Regulatory developments - the European Union has introduced regulations in relation to food contact, recycling of packaging waste and greater use of recycled plastics in product packaging.

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E-commerce Packaging Growing in Tandem with Booming Online Shopping Sales

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According to The Impact of E-Commerce on Packaging: Longterm Forecasts to 2029, a market report from Smithers, doubledigit growth in e-commerce is creating explosive e-commerce packaging market growth. Now worth $35 billion, e-commerce has averaged just over 20% growth over the last few years driven by market leaders such as Amazon, JD.com and Alibaba. This boom is elevating the role of e-commercespecific packaging.

The e-commerce packaging market, which includes corrugated, flexible, and protective and transit packaging, is largely driven by convenience, transparency and price.

It’s crucial that packaging is created with e-commerce in mind from the beginning, according to the new Smithers report, since technical, legislative and business environment changes are happening at the same time.

In the home, packaging design now plays a more significant role

since unboxing the product is part of the experience. It sets the tone for how the consumer feels about the product and its maker.

E-commerce takes packaging to new levels with a fast-developing digital infrastructure and falling prices for the enabling technology. Current imperatives for e-commerce packaging are lightweight designs that save energy, protect the contents, save space and are easily recycled.

The new e-commerce supply chain The future value chain will become more complex, supported by larger volumes and technology, and influenced by the need for more suitable and sustainable packaging. Packaging must survive the e-commerce supply chain with many more points of handling. In particular, the last mile is a packaging solution testing experience that is driving new technology and creative solutions.

Data and product traceability Technology brings new opportunities for communicating with and tracing products. Tracing technology improves the shopping experience for the customer and provides security during shipment.

More access to information makes customers more loyal, creating trust within the supply chain. Businesses using these technologies will be better informed and have a competitive advantage.

Sustainability Reusable packaging is a growing part of the sustainable packaging strategy. Today, plastics, particularly single-use, are facing heavy criticism, with other materials likely to be questioned and replaced in the future. Amazon is transitioning to using more flexible plastic. New materials are developed to replace less sustainable options, and we will likely see more use of bioplastics and EPS alternatives in the future.

The Global Wetlaid Non-Wovens Market to Grow at a Slowing Rate Across the Next Five Years Smithers’ latest study ‘The Future of Wetlaid Nonwovens to 2025’ forecasts the global consumption of nonwovens will grow at a rate of 6.0% (tonnes), 6.5% (m2), and 6.4% ($) from 2020-2025. The slightly slower growth rates reflect maturing markets for many wetlaid end uses, including both new and traditional applications.

Additionally, the report considers global political and economic issues, including slowing growth in China and parts of Europe, the ongoing ‘trade war’ between the US and China, and sanctions against Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea. The report reviews the wetlaid nonwovens markets and processes, with the new inclusion of the important hydroentangled process variant. Other variants included are DRC (double recrepe) wetlaid, glass fibre-based wetlaid, all-synthetic fibre wetlaid and standard synthetic/pulp wetlaid.

Wetlaid nonwovens continue to suffer through some market

issues, primarily substitution by spunlaid and other nonwovens, in some of the older, established markets but are participating in some of the newest nonwoven applications. Smithers’ analysis for ‘The Future of Wetlaid Nonwovens to 2025’ identifies the following major key drivers for the future growth of the global wetlaid nonwovens industry over the next five years: ■ User requirements play a key part in growth of the industry, with demand for some products that have specific performance requirements being driven by consumers or users.

These include: Single-serve tea/ coffee filters, Battery separators, Bio-material filtration.

■ The sustainability movement is global and growing. The one constant is a growing desire among global consumers, companies and governments for more sustainable products.

Thinking of wetlaid nonwovens

as an efficient converter of lowcost sustainable, and eventually non-plastic, fibre into highperformance products offers a future need for this process.

■ One of the retail trends in the marketplace in 2020 is the replacement of lower performance and lower cost products with higher performance and lower cost, sustainable products. The cost and sustainability of wetlaid will continue to make it a growing choice in select segments of the rapidly growing wipes market through to 2025.

Smithers’ latest report, ‘The Future of Wetlaid Nonwovens to 2025’ covers the global wetlaid nonwovens market, providing a qualitative analysis of the industry and of segments within the market, by process technology, by material type, by end-use application and by geography, and forecasts the growth of the industry over the five years from 2020 to 2025.

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Inkjet Print Market in 2020 is Worth $80.4 Billion and Still Set to Rise

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The inkjet print market is currently worth $80.4 billion, almost the equivalent to 923 billion A4 prints, and is expected to reach $118.2 billion in 2025 according to latest Smithers’ report ‘The Future of Inkjet Printing to 2025’.

Growth will continue as high performance technology comes to market with printers and converters spending $3.9 billion on new inkjet equipment, up from $2.9 billion in 2015. Inkjet ink consumption in graphics and packaging applications is to be nearly 124,000 tonnes, more than twice the 2015 volume.

Inkjet printing growth moderates slightly to 2025, averaging 11.4% CAGR by volume and 8.0% in constant value terms as more applications become mainstream, reaching $118.2 billion in 2025, nearly 1.6 trillion A4s.

All inkjet sectors are growing – even applications where the overall print market is falling, which is the case for much publishing and graphics. Inkjet suits the changing demands of print buyers because it can meet the changing preferences of consumers better than the analogue alternatives. The continuing technological develop-

ments, together with the greater experience of print providers, combine to make inkjet competitive against litho, flexo, gravure, screen and digital toner printing.

As inkjet press performance improves, the economic crossover moves to longer runs, making it ever more interesting for print service providers and packaging converters. Hence the high levels of growth. Smithers’ analysis for ‘The Future of Inkjet Printing to 2025’ identifies the following key trends and drivers leading to inkjet printing growth over the next five years: Flexibility and agility - Inkjet allows print companies to become more agile and responsive to customer requirements Benefit of digital capability - The ability to print only what is needed on demand with no physical master promotes efficiency in the production and supply chain; total variability is possible New technology - Higher-performance machines, offering very high quality and reliability are coming to market, heavily promoted by manufacturers. Integrated manufacturing methods, linking prepress with printing and finishing

in a single-pass operation, changes the economics of product manufacture, rather than just printing Non-impact printing - Inkjet can be used to print onto very delicate irregular materials Retail supply chain changes Growth in e-commerce (and now m-commerce) allows retailers to use the transit packaging as a vehicle to communicate with their consumers and widen the functions of packaging, and to engage with consumers in new ways while improving their experience of receiving a pack Sustainability - Potential overall advantages against analogue alternatives with less waste and use of chemicals and materials. Only printing what is required at any time helps eliminate redundancy throughout the supply chain.

Smithers’ latest report, ‘The Future of Inkjet Printing to 2025’ provides current and forecast regulatory and industry sustainability developments, exclusive market sizes and 5-year forecasts for inkjet printing market globally, expert analysis of key market trends and drivers which will see the continued expansion of the inkjet market and over 100 data tables and figures giving an unparalleled level of strategic insight and technical detail into the inkjet printing market.

Purchasers of this report will also receive copy of our brand new report ‘ The Impact of COVID-19 on the Printing Industry, which presents three scenarios, and models how the markets are likely to evolve in the immediate short-term and over the next five years, based on an in-depth assessment for each printed product, print process and geographic region.

There will be major industry re-structuring with weak print companies and suppliers failing as demand falls. Remaining companies will innovate and diversify, producing PPE equipment an early example as companies collaborate and widen the range of products and services they offer, with routes to market changing toward on-line.

FMCG Packaging Market Size Is Expected to Reach up to $900 Billion by 2025 The study provides a decisive view of the FMCG packaging market by segmenting the market based on end products, raw materials, enduser application, and regions. All the segments have been analyzed based on present and the future trends and the market is estimated from 2018 to 2024. The regional segmentation includes the historic and forecast demand for North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East & Africa. This segmentation includes demand for FMCG packaging market based on all segments in all the regions and countries.

The escalating population worldwide and the rapid development of the e-commerce industry are the important factors that are predicted to push the growth of the

global FMCG packaging market in the next few years. The increasing spending capacity, particularly in developing economies are projected to support the growth of the overall market in the next few years.

In addition to this, the introduction of innovative and new products is projected to attract a large number of consumers, thus accelerating the overall growth of the market in the next few years. FMCG packaging market size is expected to reach up to USD 900 billion by 2025 riding on the strong demand for fresher and convenient packaging solutions which have minimum impact on the environment.

In order to enhance product visibility in the market, packaging has emerged as a unique tool to create a direct impact on consumer

perception about the corresponding product. Factors such as increasing middle-class population in developing countries, changing consumer lifestyles and technological advancements to develop eco-friendly packaged products are expected to drive the demand for FMCG packaging in the near future.

Packaging in the FMCG sector accounts for a large share in the material cost involved in developing a finished product. Thus companies at a global level are developing innovative packaging solutions to minimize the operational cost. The FMCG packaging market is highly fragmented when analysed from the supply side perspective with less number of companies having a substantial share in the total market.

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Plastic Packaging Market Size is About to Cross $416.2 Billion by 2026

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As per latest update by Market Study Report, Plastic Packaging Market delivers a wide-ranging industry analysis of the Plastic Packaging market segments, including their dynamics, size, growth, competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities of global industry.

This report also provides Plastic Packaging market landscape and market share information in the Plastic Packaging industry.

The Plastic Packaging Market size is anticipated to reach USD 416.2 billion by 2026. In 2017, the bottles segment dominated the global market, in terms of revenue. AsiaPacific is expected to be the leading contributor to the global market revenue during the forecast period.

A significant increase in disposable income, changing lifestyles, and improving living standards have increased the demand for food products, consumer electronics, and retail products among others, which supports the market growth.

Initiatives by market players to offer innovative products in the market, communicate brand values, and cre-

ate brand differentiation also drive the market growth. Other driving factors include growing middleclass population and increasing penetration of e-commerce platforms. The significant growth in e-commerce and rising consumer demand for consumer goods has resulted in growth in packaging segments such as protective packaging, flexible pouches and innovative bottles. Increasing demand from developing nations, and technological advancements are factors expected to provide numerous growth opportunities to the market players during the forecast period.

Asia-Pacific generated the highest revenue in the plastic packaging market in 2018 and is expected to lead the global market throughout the forecast period. The increasing population in the region coupled with growing disposable income has increased the sale of food and beverages, apparel, and consumer goods, driving the market growth.

Consumers in the region are increasingly opting for packaging that is easy to use and convenient

to transport. Smaller, lighter and easily disposable packaging is being used to make consumptionon-the-go easier. The growing healthcare, retail, and pharmaceutical industries in countries such as China, Japan, and India support the market growth.

Large brands are focusing on personalized and customized plastic packaging to create an impact on consumers and enhance brand awareness. Packaging enables companies to differentiate brands and offer personalization. Packaging can provide links to information about the product, both enhancing the product and providing details about its provenance. Plastic packaging enables enhancing of brand power for global brands and offers an effective method to compete with private label and emerging local players. Growth in digitalization offers consumers access to vast and detailed information. Communicating brand values effectively and enabling product differentiation is a major factor driving the growth of the plastic packaging industry.

Global Digital Textile Printing Ink Market Size to Register 16.3% CAGR Through 2026 According to Market Study Report, Digital Textile Printing Ink Market provides a comprehensive analysis of the Digital Textile Printing Ink market segments, including their dynamics, size, growth, competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities of global industry.

This report also provides market landscape and market share information in the Digital Textile Printing Ink market.

Global Digital Textile Printing Ink industry valued approximately $1.00 billion in 2018 is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 16.3% over the forecast period 2019-2026. The factors speculated to propel the market are ease of image modification, on demand printing, and short turnaround time. However, growing popularity of digital advertising media impedes the growth of the market over the forecast period of 2019-2026.

The objective of the study is to define market sizes of different segments & countries in previous years and to forecast the values to the

next eight years. The report is designed to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the industry with respect to each of the regions and countries involved in the study. Furthermore, the report also caters the detailed information about the crucial aspects such as

drivers & restraining factors which will define the future growth of the market. Additionally, it will also incorporate the opportunities available in micro markets for stakeholders to invest, detailed analysis of competitive landscape and product offerings of key players.

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Events

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Print4All Conference: Printing the Future, Now. Live Streaming Event on 24 June 2020

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The current situation has required a touch of creativity and a few new methods but the 2020 edition of the Print4All Conference, the annual meeting of the printing, converting and packaging community, will be going ahead.

Preceded by a preview presentation webinar on May 18, the Print4All Conference 2020 will be held in live streaming starting at 11:00 a.m. on June 24, kicking off an opportunity of discussion on innovation, Industry 4.0 and sustainability. The conference will be an added value for all professionals involved in printing and wanting to explore its potential today more than ever.

The headline – “Future Factory – Printing the future, now” – summarises the objective of the appointment, which is also one of the main challenges for the entire sector expressing the need to re-

flect on the new scenarios opened by the fourth industrial revolution, focusing on the opportunities and the risks for the printing world. The profound changes taking place require knowledge of new technologies, but also a greater awareness of skills, innovative approaches and new, highly disruptive business process logics imposed by market evolutions. In this situation, simply being reactive is not enough.

Being proactive is an essential prerequisite for companies and entrepreneurs who want to lead the change by developing strategies and practical responses. Exploring the many iterations of Smart Factory, Digital Factory, Think Factory, Open Factory and Green Factory, the Print4All Conference 2020 will tackle two core themes that are fundamental drivers of the prevailing change, namely sustainability and Industry 4.0.

Contents will be offered in Italian and English to confirm the global dimension of the event and will involve, once again, the Italian and world specialised media in addition to the international printing and packaging community. There will be round tables focusing on the experiences of the various players of the supply chain, moderated by the Italian journalist Matteo Bordone.

The Print4All Conference is organised by ACIMGA (the Italian Manufacturers Association of Machinery for the Graphic, Converting and Paper Industry), in collaboration with ARGI (Graphic Industry Suppliers Association) and with the support of ITA (Italian Trade Agency) and Fiera Milano. The detailed program and the subscription form are available online on https://conference. print4all.it/. The participation is for free, preregistration required.

Sino Shows Are Going Online

Reed Exhibitions announced that given the current pandemic situation worldwide, all of its Sino portfolio shows are going to be rescheduled to July 22-24, 2020. In addition, the organizer will launch a wide range of interactive online activities such as Live Matchmaking, Country Events, VR Open House as well as Guided Tours from the fair ground in order to involve all the visitors who are unable to attend the show in person.

Online Matchmaking Given the current situation, all Sino shows have turned its star program TAP online, where visitors who are unable to attend the show can also meet-face-to-face virtually with exhibitors and find potential suppliers. The Targeted Attendee Program (TAP), initiated in 2015, is Reed’s business matchmaking service tailor-made for international visitors to find right partners and solutions based

on their preference and needs. As an indispensable part of the show, the TAP Program has made a great contribution in promoting crossborder partnership and creating high transaction amounts.

Reed will arrange online matchmaking meetings for overseas visitors who have clear intentions of procurement but cannot attend the exhibition in person. Through convenient software solutions such as Microsoft Teams, ZOOM, WeChat and WhatsApp, visitors can communicate with on-site exhibitors to achieve their overall purchasing target.

The Online TAP Program will be carried out in three forms, i.e., one-on-one meetings, one-tomany meetings and group-togroup meetings.

■ One-on-One Meetings For overseas buyers with clear procurement needs, a live stream studio will be set up for them where one buyer can

directly communicate with one supplier privately.

■ One-to-Many Meetings For overseas buyers who expect to purchase different equipment and consumables, a live stream studio will be set up where one buyer can interact with several exhibitors and take turns to communicate with each of them.

■ Group-to-Group Meetings Live studios for group purchasing of specific products will also be set up where buyer groups can meet with exhibitors groups.

If buyers have any purchasing needs during the meeting, Reed will arrange one-on-one communication as further step.

Reed’s TAP team consists of 10 TAP executives and 20 Call Center professionals. All of them will strongly contribute to the Online Matchmaking. So far, more than 300 overseas visitors have registered to participate in this year’s Online TAP Program.

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Events

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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Organises Virtual Seminar on Alternative Publishing Platforms

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As part of its ongoing series of live virtual webinars, Abu Dhabi International Book Fair hosted a seminar last week entitled ‘Audio and Electronic Publishing: Alternative Platforms’ to discuss the challenges, current reality, and future of the publishing sector. The seminar attracted more than 30 publishers and experts from the publishing sector, with notable participants including Saleh Chebaro (Beirut), Founder and Director of online bookstore Neelwafurat.com, and Ali Abd El-Moneim (Cairo), Director of Publishing Sector at Storytel Arabia, Board Member of the Egyptian Publishers Association and Chairman of the Professional Development and Electronic Publishing Committee.

The seminar examined topics including the role of grants to publishers in stimulating the publishing sector, highlighting Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s Spotlight on Rights initiative, which

aims to encourage the production of audiobooks and eBooks as well as the translation of content from and to Arabic through its three categories of grants to publishers and translators. Participants discussed solutions to some of the challenges faced by the sector, for example how best to promote reading as an essential daily activity.

Participants had the opportunity to explore themes such as audio and electronic publishing in light of current technological advancements, the impact of distribution with regards to the challenges facing the print publishing industry, and the challenges related to the future of print in light of the rising popularity of audiobooks, eBooks and digital platforms.

The session also looked at Euro-

pean and American perspectives, and the vital role played by Arab publishers in these markets.

Mohamed Rashad, President of the Arab Publishers Association, addressed publishers’ concerns about the limitations of publishing platforms. H.E. Abdullah Majed Al Ali, Executive Director of the Dar Al Kutub Sector at the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, said: “The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi continues its efforts to support the publishing sector and industry professionals, especially in light of the current circumstances, which have created unprecedented challenges to the economic and cultural arenas.

These workshops with industry specialists will deepen our understanding of the realities that the publishing sector is facing, as technology disrupts the future of the paper book and the impacts of the current global pandemic are felt across the world.”

6-IN-1 Mega Show to be Held as Scheduled on July 22-24 in Dongguan!

According to the Guiding Opinions of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on Normalized Prevention and Control of COVID-19 issued on May 8, 2020, necessary conferences and exhibitions can be held on the conditions of adopting pre-registration and traffic limit among other measures.

Starting from May 9, Guangdong Province has lowered its major public health emergency response measures from level II to level III. On May 13, the Opinions of the Guangdong Headquarters for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Normalized Prevention and Control of COVID-19 was issued, stipulating that necessary conferences and exhibitions are allowed to be held.

The 6-in-1 Mega Show held by Reed Exhibitions, i.e. SinoCorrugated South 2020, SinoFoldingCarton 2020, China Packaging Container Expo 2020 (PackCon 2020), SinoFlexPack South 2020, SinoPaper South 2020, Intralogistics and Process Management Expo 2020 (In-

MAT 2020), provides an important channel and platform for the debut of packaging technologies, a wide display of packaging equipment as well as exchanges on the upcoming trends of the industry. As of April 30, 2020, phased results had been achieved: a total of 802 companies had confirmed their booths, covering a total area of 81,000 square meters; and more than 23,000 professional buyers had completed online pre-registration. The organizer team has maintained close communication and exchanges with exhibitors, visitors, partners and venue owners. Thanks to the cooperation and support from all parties, and with the safety of all participants guaranteed, the 6-in-1 Mega Show will be held as scheduled at the Guangdong Modern International Exhibition Center from July 22-24, 2020!

As China’s COVID-19 situation has continuously turned for the better, the country has entered a stage of across-the-board resumption of

work. China’s national economy is recovering rapidly and robustly, injecting new vitality to the packaging sector as a supporting service industry. The 6-in-1 Mega Show, as the only grand event in China that covers every link of the packaging industry, is dedicated to integrating the industry chain and stimulating innovation as part of a continued effort to build a platform that provides services for the entire industry, and promotes exchanges and business cooperation within the industry. With the strong support from all parties concerned, Reed Exhibitions is fully confident to present a series of safe, healthy and productive exhibitions to the packaging industry.

Amid the global pandemic, face-toface communication has become more meaningful than ever. The organizing committee will do its best in exhibitor services, audience invitation, among other exhibition-related work, and go all out to help companies move ahead towards recovery.

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‫زيادة مبيعات اإلضافات الوظيفية العالمية‬ ‫لتغليف البالستيك إىل ‪ 2.3‬مليار دوالر‬ ‫مــن المتوقــع أن تنمــو مبيعــات اإلضافــات‬ ‫الوظيفيــة العالميــة للتغليــف البالســتيكي‬ ‫ـي ‪ 2020‬و‪2025‬‬ ‫خــال الفتــرة مــا بيــن عامـ ّ‬ ‫بمتوســط معدل ســنوي يبلغ ‪ ،5.3٪‬لتصل‬ ‫إىل ما يقرب من ‪ 2.3‬مليار دوالر مقارن ًة بما‬ ‫يــوازي ‪ 1.7‬مليــار دوالر يف عــام ‪ .2019‬يف‬ ‫حيــن مــن المتوقع أن تنمو مبيعات ســوق‬ ‫الطبقــات العازلــة للتغليــف البالســتيكي‬ ‫ـي ‪ 2020‬و‪2025‬‬ ‫خــال الفتــرة مــا بيــن عامـ ّ‬ ‫بمتوســط ســنوي ‪ 4.9٪‬أي مــن ‪ 1.8‬مليــار‬ ‫دوالر إىل ‪ 2.4‬مليار دوالر‪.‬‬ ‫مــع تزايــد الطلــب بســرعة علــى مــواد‬ ‫التعبئــة والتغليــف التــي توفــر حمايــة أكبــر‬ ‫لمحتوياتهــا‪ ،‬تــم تســويق مجموعــة متنوعــة‬ ‫مــن تقنيــات العــزل التــي تحافــظ على مدة‬ ‫صالحيــة المنتج وتحميها وتعظمها‪ ،‬وتقلل‬ ‫الحاجة إىل المواد الحافظة وتوفر الشفافية‬ ‫واللمعــان وتعمــل كركيــزة للطباعــة‪ .‬بــدون‬ ‫التغليف العازل‪ ،‬فإن الســلع القابلة للتلف‬ ‫مثل األغذية والمشروبات والمستحضرات‬ ‫الصيدالنيــة ســتكون عرضــة لمجموعــة‬ ‫واسعة من عمليات التلف‪.‬‬ ‫يحــدد تحليــل ســميثرز عــن "مســتقبل‬ ‫اإلضافــات الوظيفيــة والطبقــات العازلــة‬

‫لتغليــف البالســتيك حتــى عــام ‪"2025‬‬ ‫االتجاهــات والدوافــع الرئيســية التاليــة‬ ‫للصناعــة علــى مــدى الســنوات الخمــس‬ ‫المقبلة‪:‬‬ ‫ ■التأثيــرات االقتصاديــة ‪-‬ســتتأثر‬ ‫باإلضافــات‬ ‫الخاصــة‬ ‫التوقعــات‬ ‫الوظيفيــة والطبقــات العازلــة للتغليف‬ ‫النمــو‬ ‫باتجاهــات‬ ‫البالســتيكي‬ ‫االقتصــادي العالمــي خــال فتــرة‬ ‫التوقعات‬ ‫ ■التأثيرات الديموغرافية ونمط المعيشة‬ ‫تؤثــر التغييــرات األخيــرة يف أنمــاط‬‫معيشــة المســتهلكين علــى قراراتهــم‪،‬‬ ‫مــن تزايــد التحضــر‪ ،‬ونمــو الطبقــة‬ ‫الوســطى‪ ،‬وزيــادة أكبــر يف الصحــة‬ ‫والعافية‪ ،‬واالستهالك العابر وغير ذلك‬ ‫ ■الراحــة ‪-‬يرغــب المســتهلكون الذيــن‬ ‫يعانــون مــن ضغــوط الوقــت يف توفيــر‬ ‫منتجــات وأغلفة مالئمة مثل الوجبات‬ ‫الجاهــزة لالســتخدام يف الميكروويــف‬ ‫والخضروات المقطعة مسب ًقا‬ ‫ ■التعبئــة المســتدامة ‪-‬يســتجيب‬ ‫أصحــاب العالمــات التجاريــة لشــواغل‬ ‫المســتهلكين البيئيــة بعــدة طــرق‬

‫تشــمل تخفيف وزن العبوة عن طريق‬ ‫تقليــل المــواد المســتخدمة المــواد‬ ‫دون اإلضــرار بــأداء العبــوة‪ ،‬واســتخدام‬ ‫البالســتيك المعــاد تدويــره واعتمــاد‬ ‫التغليف بالبالستيك الحيوي‬ ‫ ■تجــارة التجزئــة الحديثــة ‪-‬أدى التحــول‬ ‫نحــو هيــكل أكثــر مركزيــة لتجــارة البقالة‬ ‫بالتجزئــة إىل مســتويات أعلــى مــن‬ ‫التعبئــة والتغليــف‪ ،‬ال ســيما لألغذيــة‬ ‫الطازجة واألطعمة المبردة والمخبوزات‬ ‫ ■مخــاوف المســتهلكين بشــأن فضــات‬ ‫الطعــام وســامة األغذيــة ‪-‬هنــاك‬ ‫اســتخدام متزايــد لتقنيــات التعبئــة‬ ‫النشــطة مثــل اســتخدام اإليثليــن‬ ‫واألكســجين يف صناعــة عبــوات جمــع‬ ‫الفضــات‪ ،‬واإلضافــات مــن مضــادات‬ ‫الميكروبــات ومضــادات األكســدة‬ ‫ومضادات الفطريات‬ ‫ ■التطــورات التنظيميــة ‪-‬أقــر االتحــاد‬ ‫األورويب بعــض اللوائــح المتعلقــة‬ ‫باالتصال باألغذية وإعادة تدوير نفايات‬ ‫التعبئــة والتغليــف وزيــادة اســتخدام‬ ‫المواد البالســتيكية المعــاد تدويرها يف‬ ‫تغليف المنتجات‪.‬‬

‫نمو التغليف المرتبط بالتجارة اإللكترونية بالتزامن‬ ‫مع ازدهار مبيعات التسوق عبر اإلنترنت‬

‫سلسلة توريد التجارة‬ ‫اإللكترونية الجديدة‬

‫ســتصبح سلســلة القيمــة المســتقبلية‬ ‫أكثــر تعقي ـ ًدا‪ ،‬مدعومة بأحجام وتكنولوجيا‬ ‫أكبــر‪ ،‬وتتأثــر بالحاجــة إىل تغليــف أكثــر‬ ‫مالءمــة واســتدامة‪ .‬يجــب أن يتعامــل‬ ‫التغليــف مــع سلســلة توريــد التجــارة‬ ‫اإللكترونيــة مــن خــال العديــد مــن نقــاط‬ ‫التعامــل‪ .‬علــى وجــه الخصــوص‪ُ ،‬ي َعــد‬ ‫الميــل األخيــر (وهــو مصطلــح ُيط َلــق على‬ ‫عمليــة نقــل العبــوات مــن نقــاط التجميــع‬ ‫إىل الوجهــات النهائيــة) تجربــة الختبــار‬

‫تتبع البيانات والمنتج‬

‫فرصا جديــدة للتواصل‬ ‫تجلــب التكنولوجيــا ً‬ ‫مــع المنتجــات وتتبعها‪ .‬تعمل تقنية التتبع‬ ‫على تحسين تجربة التسوق للعميل وتوفر‬ ‫األمــان أثنــاء الشــحن‪ .‬إن زيــادة الوصول إىل‬ ‫المعلومــات يجعــل العمــاء أكثــر وال ًء‪ ،‬ممــا‬ ‫يخلق الثقة داخل سلســلة التوريد‪ .‬وتصبح‬ ‫الشركات التي تستخدم هذه التقنيات أكثر‬ ‫اطالعا‪ ،‬ومن ثم تمتلك ميزة تنافسية‪.‬‬ ‫ً‬

‫االستدامة‬

‫ُي َعــد التغليــف القابــل إلعــادة االســتخدام‬ ‫جــز ًءا متنام ًيــا مــن اســتراتيجية التغليــف‬ ‫المســتدامة‪ .‬تواجــه المــواد البالســتيكية‬ ‫حال ًيــا ‪-‬وخاصــة ذات االســتخدام الفــردي‬ ‫انتقــادات شــديدة‪ ،‬مــع احتمــال الشــك‬‫يف مــواد أخــرى واســتبدالها يف المســتقبل‪.‬‬ ‫تتجــه أمــازون الســتخدام المزيــد مــن‬ ‫البالســتيك المــرن‪ ،‬ويتــم تطويــر مــواد‬ ‫جديــدة لتحــل محــل الخيــارات األقــل‬ ‫اســتدامة‪ ،‬ومــن المرجــح أن نشــهد المزيــد‬ ‫من اســتخدام البالســتيك الحيــوي وبدائل‬ ‫الم َمدَّد يف المستقبل‪.‬‬ ‫البوليســترين ُ‬

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‫وف ًقــا لتقريــر الســوق الصــادر عن ســميثرز‬ ‫بعنــوان "تأثيــر التجــارة اإللكترونيــة علــى‬ ‫التعبئــة والتغليــف‪ :‬توقعــات طويلــة‬ ‫األجــل حتــى عــام ‪ ،"2029‬يخلــق النمــو‬ ‫المقــدر بالعشــرات يف مجــال التجــارة‬ ‫اإللكترونيــة نم ـ ًوا كبي ـ ًرا يف ســوق تغليــف‬ ‫منتجــات التجــارة اإللكترونيــة‪ .‬حققــت‬ ‫التجــارة اإللكترونيــة –والتــي تبلــغ قيمتهــا‬ ‫اآلن ‪ 35‬مليــار دوالر ‪-‬متوســط نمــو يزيــد‬ ‫قليــا ً عــن ‪ 20٪‬خــال الســنوات القليلــة‬ ‫الماضيــة‪ ،‬مدفوع ـ ًة بقــادة الســوق مثــل‬ ‫‪( Amazon‬أمــازون) و‪( JD.com‬جاي دي‬ ‫دوت كــوم) و‪( Alibaba‬علــي بابــا)‪ .‬يرفــع‬ ‫هــذا االزدهــار مــن دور التغليــف الخــاص‬ ‫بالتجــارة اإللكترونية‪.‬‬ ‫إن ســوق تغليــف التجــارة اإللكترونيــة‪،‬‬ ‫والــذي يشــمل ورق التغليــف المقــوى‬ ‫والمــرن والــوايق ومــواد وصناديــق تعبئــة‬ ‫النقــل‪ ،‬مدفــوع إىل حــد كبيــر بالراحــة‬ ‫والشــفافية والســعر‪ .‬ومــن األهميــة بمــكان‬ ‫أن تؤ َ‬ ‫خــذ التجــارة اإللكترونيــة يف االعتبــار‬ ‫منــذ البدايــة عنــد إنشــاء خطــوط التعبئــة‬ ‫والتغليــف‪ ،‬وذلــك وف ًقــا لتقريــر ســميثرز‬ ‫الجديــد‪ ،‬نظ ـ ًرا ألن التغييــرات التقنيــة‬ ‫والتشــريعية والتغيــرات يف بيئــة األعمــال‬ ‫تحــدث كلها يف نفس الوقت‪.‬‬

‫يلعب تصميم التعبئة والتغليف يف المنزل‬ ‫اآلن دو ًرا أكثر أهمية نظ ًرا ألن إخراج المنتج‬ ‫من علبته هو جزء من التجربة‪ ،‬والتي تحدد‬ ‫نغمــة شــعور المســتهلك حيــال المنتــج‬ ‫وصانعه‪.‬‬ ‫ترتقــي التجــارة اإللكترونيــة بالتغليــف إىل‬ ‫مســتويات جديــدة مــن خــال بنيــة تحتيــة‬ ‫رقميــة ســريعة التطــور وانخفــاض أســعار‬ ‫تكنولوجيــا التمكيــن‪ .‬و ُت َعــد التصميمــات‬ ‫خفيفــة الــوزن الموفرة للطاقــة‪ ،‬التي تحمي‬ ‫المحتويــات وتوفــر المســاحة ويمكــن إعادة‬ ‫تدويرهــا بســهولة‪ ،‬مــن الضــرورات الحاليــة‬ ‫لتغليف التجارة اإللكترونية‪.‬‬

‫حلــول التعبئــة والتغليــف التــي تقــود‬ ‫التكنولوجيــا الجديــدة والحلول اإلبداعية‪.‬‬

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‫ابتكارات االستدامة تدفع النمو يف سوق‬ ‫طبقات التغليف الوظيفية والعازلة‬

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‫وف ًقــا لمــا جــاء يف تقريــر جديــد صــادر عــن‬ ‫ســميثرز بخصــوص مســتقبل طبقــات‬ ‫التغليــف الوظيفيــة والعازلــة للــورق‬ ‫والكرتــون حتــى عــام ‪ ،.2024‬فــإن مطالــب‬ ‫المســاهمين والمستهلكين للحصول على‬ ‫تغليــف أكثــر اســتدامة تجعــل الشــركات‬ ‫تستجيب من خالل زيادة التدابير يف سبيل‬ ‫توفير بدائل صديقة للبيئة‪.‬‬ ‫تجاوزت ســوق طبقات التغليف الوظيفية‬ ‫والعازلة المســتخدمة يف تطبيقات تغليف‬ ‫الــورق والكرتــون ‪ 3‬مالييــن طــن يف ‪2018‬؛‬ ‫ومن المتوقع زيادة إجمايل السوق بمقدار‬ ‫‪ 1.5‬مليــون طــن إضافيــة بحلــول عــام‬ ‫‪ ،2024‬ممــا ينتــج عنــه إضافــة مــا يقــرب‬ ‫مــن ‪ 3.2‬مليــار دوالر إىل القيمــة اإلجماليــة‬ ‫بأســعار ‪ 2018‬الثابتة‪ ،‬بمعدل نمو ســنوي‬ ‫مركب يبلغ ‪.7.7٪‬‬ ‫يقــود أصحــاب العالمــات التجاريــة وتجــار‬ ‫التجزئــة ‪-‬مــن المتطلعيــن إىل تحســين‬ ‫بيانــات اعتمادهــم مــن جهــة المــواد‬ ‫صديقــة البيئــة ‪-‬اســتخدام المــواد المعــاد‬ ‫تدويرهــا والقابلــة إلعــادة التدويــر يف‬ ‫التعبئــة والتغليــف‪ ،‬ممــا يــؤدي إىل زيــادة‬ ‫الطلــب يف مجال تصنيع الورق والكرتون‪.‬‬ ‫شــكلت األليــاف المعــاد تدويرهــا ‪٪ 73‬‬ ‫مــن إجمــايل حجــم إنتــاج الكرتــون يف عــام‬ ‫‪ ،2011‬ثــم نمــت إىل حــوايل ‪ ٪ 77‬يف‬ ‫عــام ‪ ،2018‬ومــن المتوقــع أن تشــكل مــا‬ ‫يقــرب مــن ‪ ٪ 80‬من إجمايل حجم اإلنتاج‬ ‫يف عام ‪.2023‬‬

‫االتجاهات السائدة يف تغليف‬ ‫المواد الغذائية‬

‫يمثل تغليف المواد الغذائية والمشــروبات‬ ‫حــوايل ‪ ٪ 80‬مــن الطلــب علــى طبقــات‬ ‫التغليــف مــن الــورق والكرتــون‪ ،‬وبالتــايل‬ ‫مــن المفيــد فهــم النمــو المتوقــع يف الطلب‬ ‫علــى أنــواع التعبئــة والتغليــف المختلفــة‬ ‫المســتخدمة يف التطبيقــات الغذائيــة‪ .‬مــن‬ ‫المتوقع أن تسجل مواد التعبئة والتغليف‬ ‫البالســتيكية المرنــة أعلــى قيمــة مــن حيث‬ ‫ـي ‪2019‬‬ ‫النمــو خــال الفتــرة مــا بيــن عامـ ّ‬ ‫و‪ ،2024‬يف حين يتوقع أن تسجل المعادن‬ ‫والمواد األخرى مثل الخشب نم ًوا أقل من‬ ‫المتوســط‪ .‬مــن المرجــح أن ينمــو إجمــايل‬ ‫الطلــب علــى التعبئــة والتغليــف مــن حيث‬ ‫القيمــة بنســبة تقتــرب مــن ‪ 3٪‬ســنويًا على‬ ‫مــدار فترة الســنوات الخمــس هذه‪ ،‬مع نمو‬ ‫يف الطلــب علــى الــورق المقــوى والــورق‬ ‫المرن بنسبة ‪ 3٪‬إىل ‪.3.5٪‬‬

‫الماء مقابل المذيبات‬

‫هنــاك اتجــاه متزايــد للتغييــر مــن الطبقــات‬ ‫القائمــة علــى المذيبــات إىل تلــك القائمــة‬ ‫علــى الميــاه‪ ،‬ممــا يقلــل مــن انبعاثــات‬ ‫المركبــات العضويــة المتطايــرة (‪)VOCs‬‬ ‫ويوفر بيئات عمل أكثر أمانًا للعمال‪ .‬هناك‬ ‫الكثيــر من األعمــال الجارية لتطوير طبقات‬ ‫التغليــف الوظيفيــة والعازلــة المرتكــزة‬ ‫علــى الميــاه بحيــث تكــون صالحــة تجاريًــا‬ ‫لتطبيقــات الــورق والكرتــون يف محاولــة‬

‫إليجاد بدائل للمواد البالســتيكية المثقوبة‪،‬‬ ‫خاصــة البــويل إيثليــن والبــويل إيثيليــن‬ ‫تيرفتاالت (‪ ،)PET‬والبرافين‪ ،‬والســيليكون‬ ‫والكيماويات الفلورية‪.‬‬

‫اتجاهات التكنولوجيا والتطبيق‬

‫تتخــذ الصناعــة العديــد مــن اإلجــراءات‬ ‫المبتكــرة لتطويــر تقنيــات وكفــاءات‬ ‫جديــدة يف ســوق طبقــات التغليــف‪ .‬تمثــل‬ ‫البوليمــرات الدائريــة ‪-‬التــي أطلقتها ســابك‬ ‫يف ينايــر ‪- 2019‬ابتــكا ًرا محوريًــا يف مجــال‬ ‫إعــادة تدويــر البالســتيك‪ ،‬ممــا نتوقــع معــه‬ ‫أن تصبــح المــواد البالســتيكية أكثــر قبـ ً‬ ‫ـول‬ ‫لتجــار التجزئة وأصحــاب العالمات التجارية‬ ‫والمستهلكين‪.‬‬ ‫ال تزال بدائل الطبقات القائمة على الشمع‬ ‫محــط تركيــز الكثيــر مــن جهــود التطويــر‪،‬‬ ‫حيــث تتوفــر تجاريًــا منتجــات مثــل ُث َنــائُِّ‬ ‫الغليســيريد المهــدرج وتبــدأ يف اختــراق هذا‬ ‫الســوق‪ .‬إن طبقــات التغليــف المضــادة‬ ‫للميكروبــات ‪-‬والتــي توفــر خصائــص عازلة‬ ‫محسنة –ما تزال قيد التطوير‪.‬‬ ‫لطالمــا كانــت المــواد الحيوية محــط تركيز‬ ‫أبحــاث كثيــرة‪ ،‬ممــا ســيؤدي يف النهايــة‬ ‫إىل تــآكل ســوق طبقــات البوليمــر القائمــة‬ ‫علــى البتــرول‪ .‬تخلــق تقنيــات تطبيــق‬ ‫الطبقــات المحســنة‪ ،‬مثــل عمليــات طــاء‬ ‫الســتائر العاديــة والمنزلقــة‪ ،‬فرصــة لزيادة‬ ‫الكفــاءة والفعاليــة مــن حيــث التكلفــة يف‬ ‫عمليــات الطالء‪.‬‬

‫‪ Exo XG‬صانع أغلفة الهدايا األلماين‬ ‫تســتثمر شركــة تســولنر – فيتــوف‬ ‫جــي إم يب إتــش يف ماكينــة الطباعــة‬ ‫الفلكســوغرافية المركزيــة مــن كونيــج أنــد‬ ‫بــاور‪ .‬مــن المقــرر أن يبــدأ إنتــاج ماكينــة‬ ‫‪ Evo XG 8 + 1‬الحديثــة يف أوائــل عــام‬ ‫‪ 2021‬وســيتم اســتخدامها لطباعــة ورق‬ ‫التغليــف بجميــع أنواعــه‪ .‬يقــول يورجــن‬ ‫بــوب المالــك والعضــو المنتــدب لشــركة‬ ‫تســولنر – فيتــوف "نحــن نعطــي أهميــة‬ ‫خاصــة للجوانــب البيئيــة والجــودة يف‬ ‫منتجاتنــا‪ .‬إن ماكينــة ‪ Evo XG‬المذكــورة‬ ‫هنــا هــي بالضبــط نــوع الماكينــة التــي كنــا‬ ‫نبحــث عنهــا‪ .‬نحــن مقتنعــون بأننــا اتخذنــا‬ ‫القــرار الصحيح وأننا ســنكون اآلن قادرين‬ ‫علــى تعزيــز مكانتنــا الرائــدة يف الســوق‬ ‫األوروبيــة"‪ .‬اســتخدام الشــركة لمجموعــة‬ ‫واســعة مــن األوراق المختلفــة التــي‬ ‫يحتــوي بعضهــا علــى نســبة عاليــة مــن‬ ‫األليــاف المعــاد تدويرهــا إىل جانــب تنوع ال‬ ‫نهايــة لــه مــن التصاميــم المطبوعة حصر ًيا‬ ‫باألحبــار المائيــة يجــب أن يؤخذ يف االعتبار‬ ‫يف التكويــن الفنــي لماكينــة طباعة جديدة‪.‬‬ ‫وأشــار أرنــو فوجيلوبــر مديــر المبيعــات‬

‫األول يف كونيــج أنــد باور فليكســوتيكنيكا‪:‬‬ ‫"لقــد قبلنــا التحــدي الــذي تفرضــه‬ ‫المتطلبــات الخاصــة للعميــل‪ ،‬وأثبتنــا‬ ‫خــال مــدة المشــروع أننــا الشــريك‬ ‫المثــايل لشــركة تســولنر – فيتــوف‪ .‬تمثــل‬ ‫ماكينــات الطباعــة المقدمــة مــن كونيــج‬ ‫أنــد بــاور االســتدامة والجــودة واألداء على‬ ‫أســاس المعــدات التقنيــة المناســبة علــى‬ ‫النحــو األمثل‪".‬‬ ‫إن ماكينــة ‪ Evo XG‬هــي ماكينــة طباعــة‬ ‫فلكســوغرافية ذات آليــة عاليــة تجســد‬ ‫تقنيــات مــن الدرجة األوىل لســرعات إنتاج‬ ‫تصــل إىل ‪ 600‬متــر يف الدقيقــة‪ .‬األتمتــة‬ ‫المتناســقة المقترنــة بتصميــم قــوي‬ ‫ومريــح هــي مفتــاح األداء االســتثنايئ مــن‬ ‫حيــث الجودة واإلنتاجية‪.‬‬ ‫تأسســت شركة تســولنر – فيتوف جي إم‬ ‫يب إتش من قبل الســيد‪ /‬فرانس تســولنر‬ ‫– فيتــوف يف أوبرالوتــر يف شــمال بافاريــا‬ ‫عامــا ويديرهــا حال ًيــا‬ ‫منــذ أكثــر مــن ‪70‬‬ ‫ً‬ ‫الجيــل الثالــث مــن العائلــة المؤسســة‪.‬‬ ‫كانــت الشــركة تطبــع حصريًــا بأحبــار مائية‬ ‫عامــا وتطــورت لتصبــح‬ ‫ألكثــر مــن ‪20‬‬ ‫ً‬

‫واحــدة مــن أهــم الشــركات المصنعــة‬ ‫ألغلفــة الهدايــا المســتدامة عاليــة الجــودة‬ ‫يف أوروبا‪ .‬تتم طباعة أكثر من ‪ 200‬مليون‬ ‫متر من ورق تغليف الهدايا كل عام‪.‬‬

‫شركة سكرين تقوم بتطوير نظام حبر مايئ نفاث‬ ‫عايل السرعة للتغليف المرن‬

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‫قامت شــركة ســكرين جرافيك سولوشــنز‬ ‫كــو‪ .‬ليمتــد (ســكرين جيــه أيــه) بوضــع‬ ‫اللمســات األخيــرة علــى تطويــر نظــام‬ ‫‪ ،PacJet FL830‬وهــو نظــام حبــر مــايئ‬ ‫خصيصا‬ ‫نفاث جديد عايل السرعة مصمم‬ ‫ً‬ ‫لســوق التغليــف المــرن‪ .‬مــن المقــرر حال ًيا‬ ‫إصــدار نظــام ‪ PacJet FL830‬يف مــارس‬ ‫‪ 2021‬تقري ًبا‪.‬‬ ‫يف الســنوات األخيــرة‪ ،‬شــهدت صناعــة‬ ‫التغليف توسـ ًـعا كبي ًرا يف تحولها المســتمر‬ ‫مــن التغليــف الصلــب مثــل العبــوات‬ ‫المصنوعــة مــن الصفيــح والعبــوات‬ ‫الزجاجيــة إىل التغليــف المــرن‪ ،‬ممــا يوفــر‬ ‫خفــة ووظيفيــة فائقــة‪ .‬يف مجــال الطباعــة‬ ‫يتأثــر قطــاع التغليــف المــرن بالمثــل‬ ‫بالتغييــرات المســتمرة يف أنمــاط حيــاة‬ ‫المســتهلكين وتنويــع تقنيــات التســويق‪.‬‬ ‫تقــود هــذه االتجاهــات متطل ًبــا متنام ًيــا‬ ‫إلمكانيــات الطباعــة المتنوعــة والمحــدودة‬ ‫مــع وقــت دوري أقل وتخصيص أكبر‪.‬‬ ‫نتيجــة لهــذه االحتياجــات بــدأت شــركات‬ ‫الطباعــة يف إدخــال أنظمــة رقميــة يف‬ ‫بعــض المجــاالت‪ ،‬ومــع ذلــك فــإن القيــود‬ ‫المفروضــة علــى عوامــل مثــل اإلنتاجيــة‬ ‫واالســتقرار والمعالجة جعلت استخدامها‬ ‫يقتصــر حتــى اآلن علــى االســتخدامات‬ ‫الترويجيــة بشــكل أساســي‪ ،‬وقد أدى هذا‬ ‫النقــص إىل طلــب متزايــد من المشــاركين‬ ‫يف الصناعــة إلصــدار األنظمــة الرقميــة‬

‫القــادرة علــى تقديــم إنتاجيــة ســريعة‬ ‫وعاليــة الجــودة الســتخدامات اإلنتــاج‬ ‫واسعة النطاق‪.‬‬ ‫اســتجابة لهــذه االتجاهــات تعمــل شــركة‬ ‫ســكرين جيــه أيــه باالشــتراك مــع شــركة‬ ‫ســكرين هولدنجــز علــى تطويــر نظــام‬ ‫‪ .PacJet FL830‬تــم تصميــم نظــام‬ ‫الطباعــة بالحبــر المــايئ الثفــاث الجديــد‬ ‫خصيصــا للتغليــف المــرن‬ ‫عــايل الســرعة‬ ‫ً‬ ‫ويمكنه التعامل مع وسائط يصل عرضها‬

‫إىل ‪ 830‬ملــم بســرعات رائــدة يف مجــال‬ ‫الطباعــة تصــل إىل ‪ 75‬مت ـ ًرا يف الدقيقــة‪،‬‬ ‫كمــا أنــه قــادر علــى الطباعــة بدقــة ‪1200‬‬ ‫نقطــة لــكل بوصــة باســتخدام أحبار نموذج‬ ‫ألوان ‪( CMYK‬سيان ماجنتا أصفر أسود)‬ ‫واألحبــار المائيــة البيضاء التــي تتوافق مع‬ ‫لوائــح ســامة األغذية ذات الصلة‪ .‬تســمح‬ ‫لــه هــذه الميــزات بتقديــم ممتــاز للتعبيــر‬ ‫اللــوين اآلمــن والغنــي الضــروري لصناعــة‬ ‫المنتجات الغذائية‪.‬‬

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‫شركة دي يت إم برينتر تطلق‬ ‫طابعة الملصقات الملونة‪LX600e‬‬

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‫أعلنــت اليــوم شــركة دي يت إم برينتــر‬ ‫الشــركة الدوليــة المص ّنعــة للمعــدات‬‫األصليــة والتي تقدم حلـ ً‬ ‫ـول ألنظمة الطباعة‬ ‫المتخصصــة ‪-‬عــن بــدء المبيعــات يف أوربــا‬ ‫والشــرق األوســط وأفريقيــا وجــي إنــك‪.‬‬ ‫‪ LX600e‬هــي طابعــة ملصقــات ملونــة‬ ‫صغيــرة الحجــم وخفيفــة الــوزن بأقصــى‬ ‫حــد عــرض للطباعة يبلغ ‪ 127‬مم وســرعة‬ ‫طباعــة تصــل إىل ‪ 114‬مــم يف الثانيــة‪ ،‬وهي‬ ‫أفضل إنتاجية يف فئتها‪.‬‬ ‫مقارن ـ ًة بطابعــات الملصقــات الملونــة‬ ‫األخرى ذات السعر المماثل‪ ،‬فإن ‪LX600e‬‬ ‫لها العديد من المزايا‪:‬‬ ‫ ■جــودة الطباعة‪ :‬تعتبــر لخطوط األفقية‬ ‫مشكلة شائعة يف العديد من طابعات‬ ‫ســطح المكتــب للملصقــات الملونــة‬ ‫ذات التكلفــة األقــل‪ ،‬ولكــن ال ينطبــق‬ ‫ذلــك على طابعــة ‪ ،LX600e‬حيث يتم‬ ‫التخلــص مــن الخطــوط األفقيــة فعل ًيــا‬ ‫حتى على سرعات الطباعة العالية‪.‬‬ ‫ ■أحبار صبغية أو ملونة قابلة للتبديل‪:‬‬ ‫مــع تبديــل بســيط لخراطيــش الحبــر‪،‬‬ ‫يمكــن للطابعــة ‪ LX600e‬أن تطبــع‬ ‫بالحبــر الصبغــي للحصــول علــى لــون‬ ‫المــع رائــع‪ ،‬أو اختــر الحبــر الملــون‬ ‫للحصــول علــى أقصــى قــدر ممكــن‬ ‫مــن تحمــل الميــاه واألشــعة فــوق‬ ‫البنفسجية‪ .‬يعمل ً‬ ‫كل من نوعي الحبر‬

‫بالتبــادل يف نفــس الطابعــة‪ .‬يحتــوي‬ ‫الحبــر الملــون مــن بريميــرا علــى واحــد‬ ‫مــن أوســع التدرجــات اللونيــة المتاحــة‬ ‫يف أي مــن طابعــات ســطح المكتــب‬ ‫للملصقــات الملونــة مــع ثباتــة لونيــة‬ ‫ممتازة ضد الضوء‪.‬‬ ‫ ■خراطيــش الحبــر الفرديــة ‪:SKU‬‬ ‫تســتخدم طابعــة ‪ LX600e‬خــزان‬ ‫الحبــر الفــردي بنمــوذج ألــوان ‪CMY‬‬ ‫(ســيان ماجنتــا أصفــر) بســعة عاليــة‬ ‫جدًا‪ .‬ســيحتاج المســتخدمون فقط إىل‬ ‫اســتبدال خــزان حبــر واحــد مــن مكانــه‬ ‫واالحتفــاظ به بدال ً مــن خزانين أو أربعة‬ ‫خزانــات‪ .‬تكون عملية حســاب مخزون‬

‫الحبــر مبســطة وتكون عمليــات تبديل‬ ‫الحبــر ســريعة وســهلة‪ .‬تكــون معالجــة‬ ‫اللــون األســود داكنة ونقيــة‪ ،‬وأفضل ما‬ ‫يف األمــر هــو أن معالجــة اللــون األســود‬ ‫ال تســتخدم حب ـ ًرا أكثــر مــن خــزان حبــر‬ ‫أســود منفصــل لطباعــة القــدر ذاته من‬ ‫النصوص أو الرسومات‪.‬‬ ‫ ■صيانــة منخفضــة‪ :‬لقــد ولــت أيــام‬ ‫الفوهــات المســدودة واســتبدال رأس‬ ‫الطباعــة غيــر العملــي والمكلــف‪.‬‬ ‫يحصــل المســتخدمون علــى رأس‬ ‫تمامــا يف كل مــرة‬ ‫طباعــة جديــد‬ ‫ً‬ ‫يغيــرون فيهــا الخرطوشــة‪ ،‬مما يبســط‬ ‫الصيانة ويخفض بشــكل كبير تكاليف‬ ‫التشغيل المستمرة‪.‬‬ ‫ ■صغــر حجــم البصمــة‪ :‬بأبعادهــا ‪345‬‬ ‫مــم × ‪ 242‬مــم × ‪ 432‬مــم (العــرض‬ ‫× االرتفــاع × العمــق) تعــد طابعــة‬ ‫‪ LX600e‬واحــدة مــن أصغر الطابعات‪،‬‬ ‫تماما لالســتخدام‬ ‫مما يجعلها مناســبة‬ ‫ً‬ ‫يف المساحات الضيقة‪.‬‬ ‫ ■وزن خفيف جدً ا‪ :‬مع وزنها الذي يبلغ‬ ‫‪ 5‬كجــم فقــط بمــا يف ذلــك خرطوشــة‬ ‫الحبــر‪ ،‬تعــد طابعــة ‪ LX600e‬أخــف‬ ‫طابعــة ملصقــات ملونــة صغيــرة‬ ‫الحجم يف السوق‪.‬‬ ‫ ■اســتهالك طاقــة منخفــض جــدًا‪ :‬مــع‬ ‫وضــع االســتعداد النشــط لـ ـ ‪ 30‬وات و‬ ‫‪ 3‬وات‪ ،‬فإنها تستخدم طاقة أقل بكثير‬ ‫من منافسيها‪.‬‬ ‫النموذجيــة‬ ‫االســتخدامات‬ ‫تشــمل‬ ‫ملصقــات المنتجــات للقهــوة والنبيــذ‬ ‫والمــاء والمخبــوزات والحلويــات واللحــوم‬ ‫والجبــن ومئــات مــن األطعمــة األخــرى‬ ‫المتخصصــة وأطعمــة الذواقــة‪ ،‬كمــا أن‬ ‫الطابعــة مثاليــة ً‬ ‫أيضــا لتعمــل على شــارات‬ ‫التصنيــع والمختبــرات واألمــن والحكومــة‬ ‫وتجــارة التجزئــة المؤتمــرات واالجتماعــات‬ ‫ومجموعة متنوعة من األسواق المختلفة‪.‬‬ ‫و أوضــح أندرياس هوفمان العضو المنتدب‬ ‫لشــركة دي يت إن برينــت‪" :‬توفــر شــركة دي‬ ‫يت إم برينــت لعمالئهــا مجموعة واســعة من‬ ‫مخزون الملصقات األصلية المعتمد من دي‬ ‫يت إم للطابعــات التــي تعمــل بالحبــر النفاث‪:‬‬ ‫بد ًءا من األوراق الالمعة وغير الالمعة وحتى‬ ‫أفالم البوليستر الشفافة الالمعة وغير الالمعة‬ ‫باإلضافة إىل تخصصات مثل الذهب المعدين‬ ‫والفضة أو ركائز ملونة مسب ًقا‪ .‬يسعدنا تقديم‬ ‫طابعــة ‪ LX600e‬إىل ســوق أوروبــا والشــرق‬ ‫األوســط وأفريقيــا‪ .‬توفــر الطابعــة العديد من‬ ‫الميــزات المفيــدة‪ ،‬بما يف ذلك عرض طباعة‬ ‫أوســع وجودة طباعة أعلى وسهولة يف إدارة‬ ‫المواد االســتهالكية من طابعات الملصقات‬ ‫الملونة األخرى ذات األســعار المماثلة‪ .‬نحن‬ ‫نعتقــد أنهــا ســتجذب مجموعة واســعة من‬ ‫الشركات والمؤسسات التي تتطلب أفضل‬ ‫شــكل ممكن من الملصقــات التي يمكنهم‬ ‫إنتاجها عن طريق طابعات ســطح المكتب‬ ‫للملصقات الملونة"‪.‬‬

‫بث المعارض الصينية عبر اإلنترنت‬ ‫أعلنت شركة ريد للمعارض أنه نظ ًرا للوضع‬ ‫الوبايئ الحايل يف جميع أنحاء العالم‪ ،‬ســتتم‬ ‫إعــادة جدولــة جميــع عروضهــا الصينيــة‬ ‫إىل ‪ 22-24‬يوليــو ‪ .2020‬باإلضافــة إىل‬ ‫ذلــك‪ ،‬ســيطلق المنظــم مجموعــة واســعة‬ ‫مــن األنشــطة التفاعليــة عبــر اإلنترنــت‬ ‫مثــل التوفيــق عبــر اإلنترنــت‪ ،‬واألحــداث‬ ‫اإلقليمية‪ ،‬والبيت المفتوح عبر تقنية الواقع‬ ‫االفتراضــي‪ ،‬إىل جانــب الجــوالت المصحوبــة‬ ‫بمرشــدين مــن أرض المعــارض بهــدف‬ ‫إشــراك جميــع الــزوار الذيــن ال يســتطيعون‬ ‫حضور العرض شخص ًيا‪.‬‬

‫التوفيق عبر اإلنترنت‬

‫نظ ـ ًرا للوضــع الحــايل‪ ،‬فقــد قامــت جميــع‬ ‫المعــارض الصينيــة بتحويل برنامجهــا األول‬ ‫(برنامج الحضور المستهدف ‪ )TAP -‬ليبث‬ ‫عبر اإلنترنت‪ ،‬حيث يمكن للزوار غير القادرين‬ ‫علــى حضور المعــرض االجتمــاع وج ًها لوجه‬ ‫مــع العارضيــن والعثــور علــى مورديــن‬ ‫محتملين‪ُ .‬يعد برنامج الحضور المستهدف‪،‬‬ ‫والــذي بــدأ يف عــام ‪ ،2015‬بمثابــة خدمــة‬ ‫التوفيق بين األعمال المقدمة من شركة ريد‪،‬‬ ‫خصيصــا للزوار الدوليين للعثور‬ ‫والمصممة‬ ‫ً‬ ‫علــى الشــركاء والحلــول المناســبة بنــا ًء على‬ ‫تفضيالتهم واحتياجاتهم‪ .‬قدم برنامج ‪،TAP‬‬ ‫كجــزء ال غنــى عنــه مــن المعرض‪ ،‬مســاهمة‬ ‫كبيرة يف تعزيز الشــراكة عبر الحدود وإنشــاء‬ ‫معامالت ذات مبالغ عالية‪.‬‬ ‫ســتقوم شــركة ريــد بترتيــب اجتماعــات‬ ‫التوفيــق عبــر اإلنترنــت للــزوار األجانــب‬

‫الذيــن لديهــم نوايــا واضحــة للشــراء ولكن ال‬ ‫يمكنهــم حضــور المعــرض شــخص ًيا‪ ،‬حيــث‬ ‫يمكــن للــزوار التواصــل مــع العارضيــن يف‬ ‫الموقــع لتحقيــق هدفهــم العــام يف الشــراء‬ ‫مــن خــال حلــول البرامــج المريحــة مثــل‬ ‫‪ Microsoft Teams‬و‪ ZOOM‬و‪WeChat‬‬ ‫و‪.WhatsApp‬‬ ‫ُيقــام برنامــج الحضــور المســتهدف عبــر‬ ‫اإلنترنت يف ثالثة أشكال‪ ،‬وهي االجتماعات‬ ‫الفرديــة‪ ،‬واجتماع الشــخص مع المجموعة‬ ‫واالجتماعات الجماعية‪.‬‬ ‫ ■االجتماعــات الفرديــة‪ :‬يتــم إنشــاء‬ ‫استوديو بث مباشر للمشترين األجانب‬ ‫الذيــن لديهــم احتياجات شــراء واضحة‪،‬‬ ‫حيــث يمكــن لمشــتري واحــد التواصل‬ ‫مباشرة مع مورد واحد بشكل خاص‪.‬‬ ‫ ■اجتمــاع الشــخص مــع المجموعــة‪:‬‬ ‫يتــم إنشــاء اســتوديو بــث مباشــر‬ ‫للمشــترين األجانــب الذيــن يتوقعــون‬

‫شــراء معــدات ومســتهلكات مختلفة‪،‬‬ ‫حيــث يمكــن للمشــتري التفاعــل مــع‬ ‫العديــد مــن العارضيــن والتنــاوب‬ ‫للتواصــل مع كل منهم‪.‬‬ ‫ً‬ ‫أيضــا‬ ‫ ■االجتماعــات الجماعيــة‪ُ :‬تقــام‬ ‫اســتوديوهات بــث مباشــر للشــراء‬ ‫الجماعــي لمنتجــات معينــة‪ ،‬حيــث‬ ‫يمكن لمجموعات المشترين االجتماع‬ ‫بمجموعــات العارضيــن‪ .‬إذا كان لــدى‬ ‫المشــترين أي احتياجــات شــراء خــال‬ ‫االجتمــاع‪ ،‬تقــوم شــركة ريــد بترتيــب‬ ‫اتصال فردي كخطوة إضافية‪.‬‬ ‫يتكــون فريــق عمــل برنامــج الحضــور‬ ‫المســتهدف التابــع لشــركة ريــد مــن ‪10‬‬ ‫تنفيذييــن يف و‪ 20‬مــع العامليــن يف مركــز‬ ‫جميعا بقوة يف التوفيق‬ ‫االتصال‪ ،‬يساهمون‬ ‫ً‬ ‫عبر اإلنترنت‪ .‬حتى اآلن‪ ،‬سجل أكثر من ‪300‬‬ ‫زائــر أجنبــي للمشــاركة يف برنامــج الحضــور‬ ‫المستهدف عبر اإلنترنت لهذا العام‪.‬‬

‫معرض أبوظبي الدويل للكتاب ينظم ندوة‬ ‫افتراضية حول منصات النشر البديلة‬

‫‪ME‌Printer May-June 2020‬‬

‫كجزء من سلســلته المســتمرة من الندوات‬ ‫االفتراضيــة الحيــة عبــر اإلنترنــت‪ ،‬اســتضاف‬ ‫معرض أبوظبي الدويل للكتاب ندوة األسبوع‬ ‫الماضي بعنوان "النشر الصويت واإللكتروين‪:‬‬ ‫منصــات بديلــة" لمناقشــة تحديــات قطــاع‬ ‫النشــر وواقعــه الحــايل ومســتقبله‪ .‬اجتذبــت‬ ‫النــدوة أكثــر من ‪ 30‬ناش ـ ًرا وخبي ـ ًرا من قطاع‬ ‫النشر‪ ،‬مع مشاركين بارزين من بينهم صالح‬ ‫شــبارو (بيــروت)‪ ،‬مؤســس ومديــر مكتبــة‬ ‫اإلنترنت نيل وفرات‪ .‬كوم‪ ،‬وعلي عبد المنعم‬ ‫(القاهرة)‪ ،‬مدير قطاع النشــر يف ســتوري تل‬ ‫العربية‪ ،‬عضو مجلس إدارة اتحاد الناشــرين‬ ‫المصرييــن ورئيــس لجنــة التطويــر المهنــي‬ ‫والنشر اإللكتروين‪.‬‬ ‫تناولــت النــدوة موضوعــات منهــا دور‬ ‫المنــح للناشــرين يف تحفيــز قطــاع النشــر‪،‬‬ ‫وأبــرزت مبــادرة معــرض أبوظبــي الــدويل‬ ‫للكتــاب لتســليط الضــوء علــى الحقــوق‪،‬‬ ‫والتــي تهــدف إىل تشــجيع إنتــاج الكتــب‬ ‫المســموعة والكتــب اإللكترونيــة وكذلــك‬ ‫ترجمــة المحتــوى مــن وإىل العربيــة مــن‬

‫خــال فئاتهــا الثــاث مــن المنــح للناشــرين‬ ‫والمترجميــن‪ .‬ناقــش المشــاركون حلــوال ً‬ ‫لبعــض التحديــات التي تواجه القطاع‪ ،‬منها‬ ‫على ســبيل المثال أفضل الســبل للترويج‬ ‫للقراءة كنشاط يومي أساسي‪.‬‬ ‫أتيحــت الفرصــة للمشــاركين الستكشــاف‬ ‫موضوعات مثل النشــر الصويت واإللكتروين‬ ‫يف ضــوء التطــورات التكنولوجيــة الحاليــة‪،‬‬ ‫وتأثيــر التوزيع فيما يتعلق بالتحديات التي‬ ‫تواجه صناعة نشر المطبوعات‪ ،‬والتحديات‬ ‫المتعلقــة بمســتقبل الطباعــة يف ضــوء‬ ‫تزايــد شــعبية الكتــب المســموعة والكتــب‬ ‫اإللكترونية والمنصات الرقمية‪.‬‬ ‫كمــا تناولــت الجلســة ً‬ ‫أيضــا وجهــات النظــر‬ ‫األوروبيــة واألمريكيــة‪ ،‬والــدور الحيــوي الذي‬ ‫يلعبــه الناشــرون العــرب يف هــذه األســواق‪.‬‬ ‫وتحدث محمد رشاد‪ ،‬رئيس اتحاد الناشرين‬ ‫العــرب‪ ،‬عــن مخــاوف الناشــرين بشــأن‬ ‫محدوديــة منصــات النشــر‪ .‬وقــال صاحــب‬ ‫الســعادة عبــد هللا ماجــد العلــي‪ ،‬المديــر‬ ‫التنفيذي لقطاع دار الكتب يف دائرة الثقافة‬

‫والسياحة يف أبو ظبي‪" :‬تواصل دائرة الثقافة‬ ‫والســياحة يف أبوظبــي جهودهــا لدعم قطاع‬ ‫النشــر والعامليــن يف المجــال‪ ،‬وخاصــة يف‬ ‫ضــوء الظروف الحالية التي خلقت تحديات‬ ‫غيــر مســبوقة علــى الســاحتين االقتصاديــة‬ ‫والثقافيــة‪ .‬ســتعمق ورش العمــل هــذه مع‬ ‫المتخصصيــن يف الصناعــة فهمنــا للواقــع‬ ‫الــذي يواجــه قطــاع النشــر‪ ،‬حيــث تعمــل‬ ‫التكنولوجيــا علــى تغييــر مســتقبل الكتــاب‬ ‫الــوريق‪ ،‬كمــا إن الوبــاء العالمــي الحايل يلقى‬ ‫بآثاره المحسوسة يف جميع أنحاء العالم"‪.‬‬

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‫مؤتمر برنت فور أول (الطباعة للجميع)‪ :‬طباعة المستقبل‪،‬‬ ‫األن‪ ...‬حدث البث المباشر بتاريخ ‪ 4‬يونيو ‪2020‬‬

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‫يتطلــب الوضــع الحــايل لمســة مــن اإلبــداع‬ ‫وبعض الطرق الجديدة ولكن نسخة ‪2020‬‬ ‫من مؤتمر "برينت فور أول"‪ ،‬وهو االجتماع‬ ‫الســنوي لمجتمــع الطباعــة والتحويــل‬ ‫قدما‪.‬‬ ‫والتعبئة‪ ،‬سيمضي‬ ‫ً‬ ‫مســبو ًقا بنــدوة العــرض التقديمــي‬ ‫وجلســة المناقشــة عبــر الويــب يف ‪18‬‬ ‫مايــو‪ ،‬يعقــد مؤتمــر برنــت فور أول ‪2020‬‬ ‫من خالل البث المباشــر بد ًءا من الســاعة‬ ‫حــا يف ‪ 24‬يونيــو‪ ،‬ممــا يتيــح‬ ‫‪ 11:00‬صبا ً‬ ‫الفرصــة لمناقشــة االبتــكار والجيــل الرابــع‬ ‫مــن الصناعــة واالســتدامة‪ .‬سيشــكل‬ ‫المؤتمــر قيمــة مضافــة لجميــع العامليــن‬ ‫بالصناعــة والمنخرطيــن يف الطباعــة‪،‬‬ ‫والراغبــون يف استكشــاف إمكاناتهــا اليوم‬ ‫أكثــر مــن أي وقت مضى‪.‬‬ ‫يلخــص العنــوان ‪" -‬مصنــع المســتقبل‬ ‫ طباعــة المســتقبل اآلن" ‪ -‬الهــدف‬‫مــن المؤتمــر‪ ،‬وهــو ً‬ ‫أيضــا أحــد التحديــات‬ ‫الرئيســية للقطــاع بأكملــه‪ ،‬ممــا يعكــس‬

‫الحاجــة إىل التفكيــر يف الســيناريوهات‬ ‫الجديــدة التــي خلقتهــا الثــورة الصناعيــة‬ ‫الرابعــة‪ ،‬مــع التركيــز علــى الفــرص‬ ‫والمخاطــر التــي تواجــه عالــم الطباعــة‪.‬‬ ‫تتطلــب التغييــرات العميقــة التــي تحــدث‬ ‫معرفــة بالتكنولوجيــات الجديــدة‪ ،‬إىل‬ ‫جانــب وعــي أكبــر بالمهــارات واألســاليب‬ ‫المبتكــرة ومنطــق عمليــات الشــركات‬ ‫الجديــدة عالية التأثير على الســوق‪ ،‬والتي‬ ‫تفرضهــا تطــورات الســوق‪ .‬يف هــذه الحالة‪،‬‬ ‫مجــرد رد الفعل ال يكفي‪.‬‬ ‫ـرطا أساس ـ ًيا للشــركات‬ ‫ُت َعــد االســتباقية شـ ً‬ ‫ورواد األعمــال الذيــن يرغبــون يف قيــادة‬ ‫التغييــر مــن خــال تطويــر االســتراتيجيات‬ ‫واالســتجابات العمليــة‪ .‬مــن خــال‬ ‫استكشــاف التكــرارات العديــدة للمصنــع‬ ‫الذكــي والمصنــع الرقمــي ومصنــع الفكــر‬ ‫والمصنــع المفتــوح والمصنــع األخضــر‪،‬‬ ‫يتنــاول مؤتمــر "برنــت فــور أول " ‪2020‬‬ ‫موضوعيــن أساســيين يمثــان الدوافــع‬

‫األساسية للتغيير السائد‪ ،‬وهما االستدامة‬ ‫والثورة الصناعية الرابعة‪.‬‬ ‫سيتم تقديم المحتويات باللغتين اإليطالية‬ ‫واإلنجليزيــة لتأكيــد البعــد العالمــي للحدث‪،‬‬ ‫والذي سيشــمل مرة أخرى وســائل اإلعالم‬ ‫اإليطاليــة والعالميــة المتخصصــة باإلضافــة‬ ‫إىل المجتمــع الــدويل للطباعــة والتغليــف‪.‬‬ ‫ســتكون هنــاك موائــد مســتديرة تركــز على‬ ‫تجــارب مختلــف عناصــر سلســلة التوريــد‪،‬‬ ‫ويديرها الصحفي اإليطايل ماتيو بوردوين‪.‬‬ ‫يتم تنظيم مؤتمر "برنت فور أول" من قبل‬ ‫‪( ACIMGA‬جمعيــة المنتجيــن اإليطالييــن‬ ‫آلالت الجرافيك والتحويل وصناعة الورق)‪،‬‬ ‫بالتعــاون مــع ‪( ARGI‬جمعيــة مــوردي‬ ‫صناعــة الجرافيــك) وبدعــم مــن ‪( ITA‬هيئة‬ ‫التجــارة اإليطاليــة) وإدارة معــرض ميــان‪.‬‬ ‫البرنامــج التفصيلــي ونمــوذج االشــتراك‬ ‫متاحــان عبــر اإلنترنــت علــى ‪https://‬‬ ‫المشــاركة‬ ‫‪/conference.print4all.it‬‬ ‫مجانية مع اشتراط التسجيل المسبق‪.‬‬

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‫معرض أبوظبي الدويل للكتاب‬ ‫ينظم ندوة افتراضية حول منصات‬ ‫النشر البديلة‬

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‫زيادة مبيعات اإلضافات الوظيفية‬ ‫العالمية لتغليف البالستيك إىل‬ ‫‪ 2.3‬مليار دوالر‬

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