Drupa 2012 World Tour reaches India

During a presentation at the Mumbai event held at Taj Mahal Palace hotel, Hans Werner Reinhard, deputy managing director of Messe Duesseldorf said: "Drupa 2012 will have a booked capacity of more than 1,70,000 sq/mts across 19 halls with over 1,800 exhibitors. We are expecting more number of visitors than the previous edition which had a visitor fall of 3,90,000, 59% of which were from outside Germany."

As usual Heidelberg will be the largest exhibitor with two exhibition halls to showcase its wares.

Other important cornerstones of drupa 2012 are 

• Halls 1 and 2: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG with its network partners (Polar-Mohr)•
• Hall 3: Printing as well as materials and services (Leonhard Kurz, Sakurai ) 
• Hall 6: PrintCity with manroland as well as other exhibitors (Wohlenberg) 
• Halls 10 to 12: Paper processing and  packaging supplies production (Bobst AG, Mitsubishi Paper, Comexi) 
• Halls 12 to14: Printing post-production (Horizon, Müller Martini, CP Bourg) 
• Halls 15 to 17: Printing machines and printing post-production (Cerrutti, Ferag AG, Goss, Koenig & Bauer AG, Körber PaperLink, Kolbus GmbH, Shanghai Electric, Windmoller & Holscher KG)

Reinhard added: "In contrast to the last drupa 2008, the suppliers of digital solutions have become even more important and thus clearly reflect the megatrend of digitisation. At Drupa 2012, six halls will show everything concerning digital printing, workflow or web-to-print applications from manufacturers such as Agfa, Canon, Kodak, Epson, Fujifilm, Hewlett-Packard, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Screen and Xerox." 

Reinhard pointed an emerging trend for Drupa 2012. "11,000 sq/mts of the exhibition floor space has been occupied by Chinese exhibiitors. Combine with this the fact that in the first quarter of 2011, printing machines to a value of 117.1 million euros were delivered China as against 90.1 million euros in the same quarter of the previous year, clearly suggests that China is now challenging the might of Eurpean manufacturers as well as maitining its position as an important target market"

Reinhard's presentation was followed by another presentation Markus Heering, managing director of VDMA, providing key statistics for German export market share at "47% for web-offset machines and 60% for sheetfed machinery."