Packaging at China Print 2009 at Beijing

Purva Sethi who was at China Print together with our Australian and Korean colleagues of the Independent Media Alliance, reports on the packaging and converting equipment shown there while our European editor Ron Augustin provides the statistical analysis and discusses the issues that exhibitions will have to confront in the future.

June 19, 2009

Much like drupa last year, China Print in its 7th edition emphasised packaging both as a growing segment in offset printing and in its more specific flexo, gravure and ancillary equipment settings. Established 25 years ago, China Print has become the largest printing fair in China, and the second largest in the world when considering the number of exhibitors. Compared to its last edition in 2005, exhibitor numbers rose by 30% to 1,284 while the visitor count – 68,000 – remained flat and even declined as compared to 2001 when it reached 75,000. Including repeat visitors, China Print’s total of 160,000 visitor entries over the five days, however, makes it the busiest printing exhibition after drupa. In terms of unique visitor numbers, it is closing in on IGAS Tokyo and has already overtaken the Ipex Birmingham show and Print Chicago.
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