Dubai, Warsaw, and Budapest: Epple demonstrates its international presence at spring trade fairs

Gulf Print & Pack 2019 in Dubai, Packaging Innovations in Warsaw and the Print Packaging Days in Budapest: The printing industry demonstrated its performance capability this spring at various Trade Fairs. Epple Druckfarben was also present, alongside their local sales partners. Whether in Europe or the Middle East, one thing is certain; innovative sustainable solutions for the packaging printing industry are in demand. Epple's move towards internationalisation has increased Epple‘s presence on the markets. Regional trade fairs are the ideal platform for this practical customer proximity.

The prevalent industry trends are transregional: the requirements are for sustainable packaging printing solutions, and great interest is also shown in further developed conventional and UV ink series. New methods in the food sector are in demand, like the migration harmless BoFood® ink system with BoFood® Organic for inner side packaging printing.

Aspirational: Packaging Innovations, Warsaw

Epple received the visiting packaging experts at Packaging Innovations in Warsaw (2 – 3 April 2019) together with their Polish sales partner, Grafikus. Technical Engineer, Jaroslaw Wozny from Neusäß and the Head of the Offset print department at Grafikus, Ernest Kulaj, provided the guests with comprehensive consultation. The increasing significance of the topic of sustainability was prevalent in these expert discus-sions: for instance alternatives to lamination of printed products and packaging was a hot topic.

Print Packaging Days, Budapest

At the Print Packaging Days in Budapest (9 – 11 April 2019), Epple welcomed the customers to the stand shared with its sales partner, manroland Magyarország. The somewhat smaller trade fair impressed with its range of renowned offset printing press manufacturers. Concentrated knowledge concerning printing presses and printing was on offer from Dario Milovic, Technical Engineer at Epple, and György Kelemen, Managing Direktor of manroland Hungary. Balázs Mohor, Supplies Sales Manager at manroland in Hungary, provided information on Epple solutions for special customer re-quirements. This was obviously very convincing as three fair visitors arranged for vari-ous printing tests to be carried out at short notice directly after the fair, in the area of commercial and label printing.

Transregional: Gulf Print & Pack 2019, Dubai

Gulf Print & Pack 2019 in Dubai (15 – 18 April 2019) is the largest trade fair in the MENA region for advertising and packaging printing. Helmut Fröhlich and Anil Kumar were on site. Anil is the Managing Director of Epple's sales partner, Bab Al Rayan Inks & Printing. Great interest was shown among the visitors from the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, in the experiences of Quermia Graphics. Epple's Belgian sales partner supports printing houses in the Benelux region, who have been the pioneer users of the new PURe® ink from the house of Epple. This low odour ink system without any hazardous labelling, is based on renewable raw materials and is being introduced to an evergrowing number of markets.