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Print Summit to Focus on Environmental Concerns
Friday 12. March 2010 - The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will devote a large part of Printing Summit 2010 next month to an issue of growing concern to the publishing and printing industries - and to the general public as well: "green" publishing, or how to adapt business needs to environmental concerns.
In cooperation with the international research association IARIGAI, WAN-IFRA will devote nearly a full day of the two-day Printing Summit, to be held on 14 and 15 April in Salzburg, Austria, to environmental concerns. IARIGAI groups together 50 scientific institutes from around the world.
“Customers are asking publishers and printers to ensure that their production does not harm the environment, and the industry is responding with rapid and sustainable solutions,” said Manfred Werfel, Deputy CEO and Executive Director Newspaper Production at WAN-IFRA.
“It is in our best interests to do so; not only for the environment, but for the cost reductions that green publishing ultimately carries,” he said. “Together with IARIGAI, weve assembled a programme that showcases new knowledge and environmental strategies from international research institutes and publishing and printing companies.”
The World Print Summit will also cover all other important issues of concern: product innovation, cost reduction, new business models, investment alternatives, technological advances and, perhaps most importantly, the ingenuity being brought to the printed press, which continue to provide the majority of newspaper revenues despite digital developments.
Full details can be found at www.wan-ifra.org/printingsummit2010.
Keynote addresses will be made by Lee Huebner, Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University and the former CEO and Publisher of the International Herald Tribune, and Rick Stunt, Group Paper Director for Associated Newspapers in the United Kingdom.
The sessions on environmental issues will include:
“Going Green”, a survey of what newspaper companies world-wide are doing to reduce their carbon footprint, recycle paper, run clean operations and reduce costs at the same time, by Martha Stone, Director of the WAN-IFRA Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Project, which identifies, analyses and publicises all important breakthroughs and opportunities that can benefit newspapers all over the world.
An array of presentations on how newspaper companies can best assess and reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impacts. Speakers include: Ronald Weidel, who runs the Sustainability in Newspaper Production project at the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig; Beatrice Klose, the Secretary General of INTERGRAF, the International Confederation for Printing and Allied Industries; Åsa Moberg, a Researcher, at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; and Hanna Pihkola, a Sustainability Research Scientist at the Technical Research Centre of Finland.
A session on future possibilities that will include a presentation on improving the recyclability of graphic paper products, by Hans-Joachim Putz, Chair of Paper Technology and Mechanical Process Engineering at the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany.
Other programme highlights include:
How to sell your printing capabilities, by Michael Hack, Marketing Consultant at Marketing für Druckereien in Germany;
New Revenue Avenues, by R.D. Bhatnagar, the Chief Technology Officer for the Bhaskar Group, DB Corp Ltd. in India;
Design: 10 ideas to save your newspaper, by Jacek Utko, Design Director for Bonnier Business Press International in Poland;
Niiu – a digitally printed product with user-selected content, by Steve Stein, the Chief Technology Officer at Interti in Germany;
Investing for the future of the newspaper – the evaluation and prospect of the format change from broadsheet to berliner after one year, by TackWhan Kim, the Director of the Multimedialab at JoongAng Ilbo in South Korea;
Optimizing newsprint and complex processing to create new products in the newspaper enterprise, by Schamsulhak Ibrahimi, the head of Plant Management, Quality Assurance, Technical Purchase, at the OÖN Printing Press Center, Austria;
Continuous improvement process in production, by Markus Zentner, the Director of Printing Plants and the Purchasing Department at Mediaprint Zeitungs- u Zeitschriftenverlag in Austria;
Zero web breaks – minimizing web breaks and running costs, by Rikio Yuda, the Deputy General Manager at the Production Bureau, Kumamoto Nichi-Nichi in Japan;
Closed loop colour control, by Thomas Drensek, the Printing Plant General Manager at Axel Springer in Germany;
QC through colour density control, by Mr. Wakamatsu an Engineer in the Production Department at the Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan;
Augmented reality, by Lars Wienand, Social Media, and Joachim Türk, Chief Editor, at the Rhein-Zeitung in Germany.
A Panel discussion on the future of newspaper printing featuring Niko Ruokosuo, the Chief Operating Office of Saudi Special Publishing Holding Company in Saudi Arabia; Harald Knabl, the Managing Director of NÖ Pressehaus in Austria; and Mr Huebner, Mr Kim and Mr Stunt.
The event, designed for publishers, editors, printing managers and production directors, will be held at the modern conference centre at the Salzburger Nachrichten and will include visits to the newspapers printing plant and newsroom.