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Xeikon has announced the 2015 edition of its Café Packaging Innovations. Hosted by Xeikon and Xeikon’s Aura partners, the event will take place from March 10 to March 12 in the company’s R&D and production site in Lier.
Attendance is free but registration is required online at Xeikon’s website.
The event is designed to help global label and packaging printers, converters and print buyers enhance and transform their digital production into profitable businesses.
Xeikon Café provides an informal knowledge exchange platform covering the different aspects of digitalizing print production. The concept originated as a series of one-day local events. In 2014, Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations took place over a period of three days, and there are already confirmations for the 2015 event.
“Grafisk Maskinfabrik’s business is all about converting digitally printed media,” says Uffe Nielsen, CEO of Grafisk Maskinfabrik. “Therefore, the Xeikon Café that focuses on digital production is the ideal platform to demonstrate our capabilities. Last year’s edition proved to be a great success and generated a good source of new business revenues for our company. We are delighted to be attending the 2015 event with Xeikon, one of the leading companies in the digital label and packaging market.”
Lauri Järvinen, technical marketing manager at Metsä Board, adds: “Our company is Europe’s leading producer of fresh forest fiber carton boards and the world’s leading manufacturer of coated white-top kraft liners. It offers premium solutions for consumer and retail packaging. Our sales network serves brand owners, carton printers, corrugated packaging manufacturers and merchants. The Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations gives us an excellent opportunity to meet converters who are really interested in producing folding cartons with a digital press and this represents a fantastic growth opportunity for us.”
Live demonstrations of a large range of digital presses are planned. The new Xeikon Cheetah digital color press, which the company says is the fastest label press of its class, will be one that is on display.
Attending visitors will have the opportunity to witness just how digital production is enhancing and transforming the label and packaging industry and how it is turning short to medium runs into a profitable business.
“With the 2014 edition being such a tremendous success, we are very much looking forward to the 2015 edition,” says Filip Weymans, Xeikon’s director of segment marketing labels and packaging. “For novice or expert label and packaging printers and converters, as well as technical print buyers and brand owners, our Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations event is the ideal opportunity to discover the huge potential of digital printing and automated production workflows and to learn how integrated digital production solutions can drive innovation and help established print producers grow their business even further.”
Participants will also see Xeikon’s label and packaging application suites in action. These include the Folding Carton Suite, the Self-Adhesive Label Suite, the Heat Transfer Label Suite and the In-Mold Label Suite, which feature live job preparation, production and finishing of real-life and purpose-built applications.
There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and exchange ideas with Aura Partners, Xeikon staff and peers.
The following Xeikon Aura Partners will attend the event: AB Graphic International, ACTEGA Terra, BOGRAMA, CERM, Esko, Grafisk Maskinfabrik, HYBRID Software, KURZ, Label Traxx, Meech International, Metsä Board, Michelman, OneVision Software, Taghleef, Rietstack, Shobertechnologies, Spartanics, Stora Enso, Treofan Group, Tronics and Zünd.
Attendance is free but registration is required online at Xeikon’s website.
The event is designed to help global label and packaging printers, converters and print buyers enhance and transform their digital production into profitable businesses.
Xeikon Café provides an informal knowledge exchange platform covering the different aspects of digitalizing print production. The concept originated as a series of one-day local events. In 2014, Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations took place over a period of three days, and there are already confirmations for the 2015 event.
“Grafisk Maskinfabrik’s business is all about converting digitally printed media,” says Uffe Nielsen, CEO of Grafisk Maskinfabrik. “Therefore, the Xeikon Café that focuses on digital production is the ideal platform to demonstrate our capabilities. Last year’s edition proved to be a great success and generated a good source of new business revenues for our company. We are delighted to be attending the 2015 event with Xeikon, one of the leading companies in the digital label and packaging market.”
Lauri Järvinen, technical marketing manager at Metsä Board, adds: “Our company is Europe’s leading producer of fresh forest fiber carton boards and the world’s leading manufacturer of coated white-top kraft liners. It offers premium solutions for consumer and retail packaging. Our sales network serves brand owners, carton printers, corrugated packaging manufacturers and merchants. The Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations gives us an excellent opportunity to meet converters who are really interested in producing folding cartons with a digital press and this represents a fantastic growth opportunity for us.”
Live demonstrations of a large range of digital presses are planned. The new Xeikon Cheetah digital color press, which the company says is the fastest label press of its class, will be one that is on display.
Attending visitors will have the opportunity to witness just how digital production is enhancing and transforming the label and packaging industry and how it is turning short to medium runs into a profitable business.
“With the 2014 edition being such a tremendous success, we are very much looking forward to the 2015 edition,” says Filip Weymans, Xeikon’s director of segment marketing labels and packaging. “For novice or expert label and packaging printers and converters, as well as technical print buyers and brand owners, our Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations event is the ideal opportunity to discover the huge potential of digital printing and automated production workflows and to learn how integrated digital production solutions can drive innovation and help established print producers grow their business even further.”
Participants will also see Xeikon’s label and packaging application suites in action. These include the Folding Carton Suite, the Self-Adhesive Label Suite, the Heat Transfer Label Suite and the In-Mold Label Suite, which feature live job preparation, production and finishing of real-life and purpose-built applications.
There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and exchange ideas with Aura Partners, Xeikon staff and peers.
The following Xeikon Aura Partners will attend the event: AB Graphic International, ACTEGA Terra, BOGRAMA, CERM, Esko, Grafisk Maskinfabrik, HYBRID Software, KURZ, Label Traxx, Meech International, Metsä Board, Michelman, OneVision Software, Taghleef, Rietstack, Shobertechnologies, Spartanics, Stora Enso, Treofan Group, Tronics and Zünd.