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FESPA has postponed its 2021 Global Print Expo and the co-located European Sign Expo from March until October 2021, while remaining at the same venue, the RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The move follows confirmation that all international exhibitions in the RAI calendar have been moved out of Q1 and re-scheduled into Q2 or later. This reflects ongoing uncertainty over COVID-related travel restrictions and visitor quarantine arrangements in The Netherlands, and the risk that these could continue to affect exhibitors and visitors through early 2021.

Following close consultation with exhibitors and partners, the 2021 edition of drupa, the world’s leading trade fair for Printing Technologies, will be cancelled due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The next event will take place as scheduled from 28 May to 7 June 2024. To maintain the momentum until then, the organisers will be holding a four-day digital event titled ‘virtual.drupa’, to take place from 20 to 23 April 2021 during the time frame drupa was originally scheduled for.

A thermochromic ink that changes color at high temperatures now offers food manufacturers a more reliable coding method, with a more obvious color change, to indicate correct sterilization of packaged food products. Designed for retort sterilization of filled cans or plastic pouches, the ink changes from black to blue when the food package reaches the correct temperature of between 115 and 125oC.

Scodix has announced today the sale of the first Scodix Ultra 1000’s series of presses designed for specific markets to Kroha Druck GmbH. Representing two world firsts, the Scodix Ultra 1000 installation is planned for December 2020 and the Scodix Ultra 6000 is planned for April 2021.

As the role of packaging is rapidly evolving, BOBST is building a new company structure to better serve the future for its customers. The new organization, effective as of January 1^st 2021, will be more customer centric, easier to reach, and more agile to deliver novelties.

Jürgen Vutz, CEO and Managing Partner at machinery manufacturer, Windmöller & Hölscher, in Lengerich, Germany since 2001, will join the company’s Supervisory Board beginning January 1, 2021. The position of CEO will be taken over by Peter Steinbeck, also a Managing Partner and currently CSO,
responsible for Sales and Service. As of January 2021, the Management Board will be made up of Peter Steinbeck (CEO and Head of Sales & Service), Falco Paepenmüller (CTO) and Martin Schulteis (CFO).

The Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition will work in the same way that a live exhibition does, except that you can visit at any time, from anywhere. The hall and all the stands will be rendered out to real physical dimensions. So when the show opens, visitors will be able to navigate through the hall and visit a virtual representation of your stand, complete with 3D products.

Just one month after launching the Prinova, which has a capacity of 9,000 cycles per hour, Muller Martini is doubling its output and this November is launching a second new saddle stitcher, the Primera PRO. One of the highlights of the 14,000 cycle machine is its completely redesigned, variable-thickness three-knife trimmer.

Esko has launched the latest generation of its native PDF editor for packaging and label prepress, ArtPro+ 20.0 with advantages including 70 percent faster trapping and significant time and material savings for staggered plate cutting.

Direct-to-board digital corrugated printing just got even better, as Electronics For Imaging, Inc. has launched a new version of its award-winning, breakthrough single-pass digital inkjet corrugated printer. The new EFI Nozomi C18000 Plus builds on the already outstanding performance features of the Nozomi C18000 with significant improvements that ensure even greater productivity, quality and versatility for post-print corrugated packaging and display operations.