Children’s books with light switches, wafer-thin luminous tiles and handbags with inbuilt mobile phone chargers – when printing meets electronics, many wishes may come true. The new methods promise diverse potential applications, inexpensive production and mass market appeal. Once confined to the laboratory, Printed Electronics has now become an industrialised field with huge market potential in a wide range of sectors.
Messe Düsseldorf is responding to this trend and organising the special show PEPSO – Printed Electronics Products and Solutions at six relevant trade fairs at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre.
“Printed Electronics is becoming attractive in many user sectors for which Messe Düsseldorf stages the respective flagship fairs. In establishing PEPSO, we have therefore 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,” says Hans Werner Reinhard, Deputy Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf, explaining the strategy. “We’re in an ideal position to offer producers of Printed Electronics marketing showcases for specific target groups.” PEPSO showings are planned at the following trade fairs: COMPAMED 2013, EuroShop 2014, EuroCIS 2014, glasstec 2014, interpack 2014 and drupa 2016.