Packaging
EXPANDED DIGITAL SUMMIT SET TO RETURN TO BARCELONA THIS YEAR
Wednesday 17. February 2010 - Following the enormous success of the first Digital Label Summit and the Digital Label Experience at Labelexpo Europe last year, the organizers of Labelexpo Global Series have announced that the Digital Label Summit 2010 will be returning to take place from the 29-30 of June 2010 at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I in Barcelona.
It has been decided to hold this summit again this year following the increase in expectations from the package printing and label industry for this technology. This year the summit will explore in much greater detail the direction that digital solutions and applications will take in the future. With new generations of fully-integrated digital presses and high added-value conventional/digital in-line combination presses evolving, as well as an explosion in inkjet technology, the interest regarding these latest advances in the label and packaging sectors is growing considerably. The Summit reviews the latest developments and applications in integrated, in-line and stand alone toner and UV-curable inkjet presses for self-adhesive, shrink sleeve and heat transfer labels, flexible packaging, cartons, pouches and tubes.
The Digital Label Summit 2010 will have a strong educational element with a conference and table-top exhibition. The conference will have industry experts speaking, putting forward case studies and sitting on panels that will explore new technologies and applications for digital printing of labels, tickets/tags and flexible packaging. It will also assess opportunities for combination printing. Brand owners will be invited to talk about their experience of digitally printed labels and packs and their expectations for the future developments.
Exhibitors will include machine manufacturers of liquid-toner, dry-toner and inkjet technologies as well as material suppliers of multiple substrates, pre-press origination, digital plate-making and die-cutting, digital proofing and all ancillary-related products.
Mike Fairley, the worlds leading consultant on labels, said: “Following the success of the Digital Label Summit last year, it makes sense to continue the event in 2010. All developments and trends, together with new advances in digital pre-press, digital finishing and die-cutting, and the fast-evolving end-user applications for digital printing, will be examined and discussed at the summit. Label converters, packaging printers, label and pack designers and brand owners looking to know where their business will be competing and growing in the future should most definitely be at the Digital Label Summit in Barcelona.”
Roger Pellow, Labelexpo Managing Director also commented: “Digital printing has really excelled over the last year. With a number of UV inkjet presses being launched and installed since the last Digital Label Summit in 2009, it is clear that the industrys interest and demand for this technology will continue to grow at a very fast rate.”