The potential for printed electronics products has prompted Drupa organiser Messe Düsseldorf to form the Pepso (Printed Electronics Products and Solutions) show which will run alongside six relevant trade fairs at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre. Drupa 2016 is one of those events; the others are Compamed 2013, EuroShop 2014, EuroCIS 2014, glasstec 2014 and interpack 2014.
“Printed Electronics is becoming attractive in many user sectors for which Messe Düsseldorf stages the respective flagship fairs. In establishing Pepso, we have given the subject a platform of its own and are integrating it in the trade fairs for the retail trade, glass processing, packaging, printing and medicine,” said Hans Werner Reinhard, deputy managing director of Messe Düsseldorf.
With the goal of mutual support in the field of printed electronics products and solutions, Messe Düsseldorf and Esma (the European association for specialist printing manufacturers of screen, digital and flexo technology) have now entered into strategic cooperation. “The printing industry is ready to vertically integrate functionality and electronic applications. This agreement is an ideal opportunity for the printing community to embrace the many industries and markets covered by Messe Düsseldorf’s range of world class exhibitions,” said Peter Buttiens, CEO of Esma.
The two partners will network their public relations and internet activities, market each other’s events and present themselves at the relevant partner events. Messe Düsseldorf will be rep- resented with an information stand at the coming AFIP (Advanced Functional and Industrial Printing) in Düsseldorf on 6- 7 March. In return, Esma will be presenting itself at the relevant Düsseldorf trade fairs.
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