Print’s biggest event, Drupa 2016 will be held from 31 May to 10 June, 2016 at Dusseldorf, Germany.

 

Team Messe Dusseldorf, comprising of Sabine Geldermann, director at Drupa, and Dr Ink Markus Heering of VDMA, focused their presentations on touchpoints that will take centre stage at the show, while Medha Virkar of MMS and Faheem Agboatwala, president of BMPA, spoke on what they think will transpire at the show.

 

Drupa is no longer Drucken and Papier, an interesting new Drupa acrostic summed up the direction in which the show is moving. Drupa now stands for Digitisation, Rapid manufacturing, Utilities, Packaging, and Applications. The repositioned Drupa will now focus on application growth and future technology – functional printing, interactive packaging and utility applications which include digital inkjet printing on ceramics and laminate flooring.

 

The Drupa 2012 edition saw nearly 3,14,500 visitors with 15,000-plus attendees from India formed the second largest group after Germany.

 

PrintWeek India is the cooperating media partner for Drupa 2016. In addition, PrintWeek India’s edit team will be part of the DrupaReportDaily edit team, which will publish the daily on all the 11 days of the show.