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Koenig & Bauer reaffirms its commitment to participate in the world's largest trade fair for the printing industry, which has been postponed until April 2021. The company is well positioned and the stand in Hall 16 will be retained.

Manroland Sheetfed GmbH, the German printing press builder, announced today that it is pulling out of drupa, the printing industry’s leading exhibition, normally held every four years in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG informed about its decision to withdraw from next year's Drupa fair. The main reason is the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences - restrictions on movement and accumulation, hygiene restrictions and the impossibility to predict how the epidemic will look like next year. At the same time, the concern informs that it intends to focus on the organization of Innovation Weeks in the show centre in Wiesloch-Walldorf, which is related to the ever shorter time of introducing novelties to the market. The first series of presentations, which will also be available online, will take place in October this year.

With the Rapida 106 X, Koenig & Bauer is unveiling a new high-performance sheetfed offset press for the medium format 740 × 1060mm. It meets every conceivable demand that today’s market makes of a press in terms of automation, digitisation and workflow solutions, thereby making it the latest in a line of trendsetting developments defining the future of industrial offset.

Surface treatment has come a long way in the 70 years since Verner Eisby, the founder of Vetaphone, invented and developed the technique that is now known worldwide as Corona. As market demand has led to the evolution of new inks, lacquers, and substrates, so surface treatment has been refined and become more highly tuned to today’s complex market requirements in which the demand for film and foil based printed packaging continues to rise.

Domino Digital Printing Solutions announced the launch of the Domino X630i single pass, digital ink jet press supplied with the revolutionary Domino AQ95 CMYK aqueous ink set representing ‘The new business model for corrugated box production.’

Kodak announced a revolutionary new inkjet press and an enhanced portfolio of offset and digital solutions designed to deliver an unmatched return on investment. Kodak’s game-changing technology allows printers to increase profitability by making their traditional workflows more efficient while creating opportunities for growth.

The new HP Indigo 100K was supposed to be unveiled to the world at the Drupa in mid-June which has been postponed. HP teamed up with Onlineprinters to optimise the latest member of its Indigo family for a successful market launch.

swissQprint's Spanish subsidiary has opened a new showroom. Here, visitors can witness live demonstrations of flatbed and roll to roll printing made in Switzerland.

As one of the world’s largest, and the most influential premium shows in the converting industry, the 6-in-1 Mega Show, i.e. SinoCorrugated 2021, SinoFoldingCarton 2021, China Packaging Container Expo 2021 (PackCon 2021), SinoFlexPack 2021, SinoPaper 2021, Intralogistics and Process Management Expo 2021 (InMAT 2021), will be held in Shanghai in the golden period of July 2021.