Slovak Screen Printing Association/Sieťotlačový zväz SR
5th International Seminar for Screen and Digital Printers, 2-3 October 2009
Supported by FESPA, the Seminar took place in Dudince, Slovakia, this year, focusing on textile printing, and was attended by over 100 delegates.


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Update March 2010

FESPA continues to support a wide range of projects submitted by its Associations and in the last six months a varied number of projects have received approval. Some of these are described in more detail below. At our last meeting held in December we approved projects for Germany, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, France and India.

These projects vary considerably and include Compass events at FESPA Munich, seminars in India, printing workshops for students in Czech Republic and Slovakia, a FESPA link event between France and Slovakia and production of a Health and safety booklet in Finland. 

I thought it would be nice to tell you all about the very first FESPA supported seminar held in Bucharest Romania at the end of February.

Myself and Peter Kiddell were two of the speakers and despite appalling weather conditions, with lots of snow, the event attracted about 30 delegates which was very good bearing in mind all the circumstances.

Road conditions were appalling as were pavements which made walking very hazardous but Marius Codirla, who had made all the arrangements, did a great job in organising this event. Even though there was a power failure for about three hours on the day of the seminar, this did not seem to have any adverse affect on the involvement and participation of delegates, since all I spoke to considered their attendance well worthwhile.

The next FESPA supported seminar will be in Moscow at the beginning of April, where Michel Caza will be the main speaker so I am looking forward to that as well. Again it will be a first FESPA supported event in Moscow so I am hopeful that we will be able to engage with a new audience from this region and introduce them to FESPA.

In Krakow on 8th/9th April there is an event being organised by PSSiDC which is not a FESPA supported seminar but by invitation of PSSiDC, FESPA will be participating at this event.

Finally, in Slovenia in May (27th - 29th) an International conference will take place on novelties in Graphics and the future of Graphic communications, and FESPA will be supporting this event and making contributions in the seminar programme.

Our next meeting will be in April when we hope to have some new refreshing and innovative projects to consider and hopefully approve.

Planet Friendly Guide

Only available to members of FESPA National Associations, the new free of charge Planet Friendly Guide has been receiving rave reviews fom printers, suppliers and media aroud the world. This is probably the most comprehensive single source environmental guide available anywhere for screen and digital printers and by following the advice contained therein, printers can adopt best available techniques and even start off on the road to obtaining environmental accreditation eirough ISO 14001 or EMAS. We are now on our 5th update since the launch of the guide in May 2009.

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