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Fourth UV Days in Nuertingen: “Chance Food Packaging”
The IST METZ group will send a signal against the crisis in the printing sector by organizing from 15 – 18 June 2009 the remake of its in-house exhibition “UV DAYS". The main topic will be besides lectures, discussions and printing demonstrations, chances in the Food packaging printing. “We would like to show our customers on the occasion of this year’s UV DAYS how to break into this sector and how to be successful there”, says Dirk Jägers, Managing Director of the group. The branch feels the global economy crisis like no other industrial sector. Besides urgent measures for increasing the efficiency, it is time for the printing companies to look for new business areas to compensate for dropping sales. These areas are rare, but they do exist and have quite good profit chances. An interesting sector is the market for Food Packaging and it is worth looking at this closer: It is not just since the abrogation of the EU packaging regulation which allowed only standard packaging, that the business with more and more elaborate packaging boomed in order to attract the customer’s attention on the supermarket shelves. Many printing companies think, however, that this means jumping into the minefield of strict regulations and obligations made to protect the consumer from problematic ingredients of the packaging affecting the food. “Our aim is to show and explain chances and conditions for this market”, explains Dirk Jägers. Therefore, numerous experts will hold lectures during the four days of this exhibition and will report about their experiences with food packaging – the experts will also be available for discussions about the problems of this topic. This challenging topic will not only be observed theoretically. The UV Transfer Centre in Nürtingen will also show in practice how packaging for pralines are professionally produced – starting from the use of permitted inks and lacquers up to the drying under UV light and the cleanliness of the printing machine. The UV Transfer Centre will demonstrate in detail that Food Packaging is not so problematical as often assumed, however, under the condition that the user looks intensively into the relevant legal requirements. Accompanying the lectures and practical demonstrations, there will also be presentations of approximately 20 industrial partners – in addition to the main topic of this year’s UV Days, many other novelties about actual topics of the printing branch will be presented. The UV DAYS are in the meantime established as a get-together of the UV branch where printing press manufacturers, ink and lacquer producers, producers of consumables and peripherals meet with UV users. “We are convinced that we hereby provide the opportunity to the expected 500 visitors from all over the world not only to intensify their know-how for practice and to learn about fascinating products but also to enter new business branches”, explains Mr Jägers. “We help our customers to put their experiences faster into practice; and speed was always an inestimable advantage in the printing branch.” The positive effect of the UV DAYS is already known throughout the world and the organisation team from IST METZ therefore takes this into account for the fourth edition of this event around UV: The lectures will be held in German and English language and the guided tours for the visitor groups through the IST METZ premises will also be offered in various languages – from Russian, Polish to Chinese.
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