• The label industry outlook, key trends and challenges, and further insights on Avery Dennison's commitment to pioneering change in 2018 and beyond.

• Avery Dennison's approach to innovation and the key drivers for its portfolio over the next few years.
   
• The latest Avery Dennison innovations and solutions on show, themed around:

Change Your Horizons: Explore new opportunities for growth
Change Perceptions: Discover premium labeling opportunities for greater shelf appeal
Change the Game: Gain an edge with productivity gains and disruptive technology
Change Your Experience: Work Smarter with services that reduce complexity and add value.

Flint Group’s Narrow Web and Flexographic divisions will give a presentation on their business updates, strategic directions and highlights of new product offerings.
 

New UV LED solutions for the market, which will include a new product launch and introduction to new services offered.

A Total Solutions Partnership: Mark Andy’s approach to drive profitability in pressrooms through equipment, services and supplies.

As a pioneer of the printing industry with more than 70 years of expertise, Mark Andy will share the latest on its full lifecycle solutions including:

• Enhancements and extensions to the Performance Series platform.
• Advancements with Digital Series HD offer the best quality and fastest production speeds - understanding the benefits of True Hybrid.
• Launch of Rotoflex Digital F3, offline digital finisher.
• Growth in supplies and service operations.
• Overall expanded workflow offerings.

• Flenex plates.
• The new Illumina retrofit LED curing system.
• Flexo inks.
• New and innovative digital solutions, including the top-in-class flexo press, and C-Touch processor. 

Innovations in UV Curing Technology for Narrow Web

• GEW will give a short briefing on their ArcLED Hybrid UV Curing System and discuss the pros and cons of both Arc and LED technologies.
• They will also present their latest innovations in UV curing technology, highlighting their next-generation multi-point UV monitor and giving a sneak preview of the impressive capabilities of their new E4C lamphead.

New design opportunities for sophisticated wine and spirit labels

In the last 8 years, the in-line high speed multi-stroke refinement system RHINO changed the manufacturing rules for high end labels  and allowed cost-effective production in a single pass. With the latest release, RHINO IIS, Pantec offers an effective answer for growing requirements regarding multi-effect designs and decreasing job volumes.

• Pantec will give a presentation on new design opportunities for wine and spirit labels, their implementation with RHINO IIS and the possibilities of their flagship for cost-effective short run production.

• Zeller+Gmelin Printing Inks will give a presentation on their refreshed corporate design, new market-focused strategic direction and highlights of several new product offerings.

• Loftware will showcase how adopting a configurable, cloud-based automated solution for packaging artwork and end-to-end business processes will transform your project management to enable seamless collaboration, ensure traceability and regulatory compliance, while reducing time to market.
• They will also will highlight how enlisting an “enterprise-centric” approach to labeling allows you to meet customer demands and address complex labeling variations to support high-volume global printing.
• Most uniquely, Loftware will outline how global enterprises can significantly improve operations by combining labeling and artwork management capabilities through one scalable, highly configurable solution platform.

• Flint Group’s 14th Annual Print Awards celebrate the best label submissions from Flint Group’s Narrow Web, Flexographic and Xeikon customers. The awards showcase how their solutions can ignite the imagination.
• Following the awards presentation, the group will toast Xeikon in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary.