Fespa’s biennial international exhibition for digital wide-format, screen and textile print will become an annual event from this year. Following the trade show in Hamburg on 8 - 12 May 2017, the next iterations will take place in Berlin and Munich in May 2018 and 2019 respectively. Fespa Digital, which has focused specifically on digital wide-format technologies, will be replaced by the wider reaching event.
Neil Felton, Fespa CEO, said: “Since 2006, our flagship Fespa event has alternated with Fespa Digital. Feedback from both visitors and exhibitors is that - as digital becomes a mature technology - they would prefer to see Fespa present one annual event, embracing both digital and analogue products and applications to reflect the diversity of their businesses.”
Fespa divisional director Roz McGuinness added: “Suppliers of technology and consumables for screenprint now have the opportunity to exhibit at Fespa every year. It also ensures that we can present a consistent offering for our growing community of visitors from textile and other industrial sectors, and enables us to give greater continuity to recent initiatives such as Printeriors.”
Fespa’s regional exhibitions in Asia, Eurasia, central and south America and Africa will continue.