Printing News and Media - FESPA | Screen, Digital, Textile Printing Exhibitions, Events and Associations

Business Advice

Seeing clearly: striving towards supply chain transparency

The recent shocking images of people mining for cobalt that will end up in rechargeable batteries have placed a renewed focus on supply chain transparency. We look at what this means for printers.

28-03-2023

Sustainability

FESPA launches new Middle East event to serve growing print and signage market

FESPA today launches FESPA Middle East, a new event serving the speciality print, signage and visual communications community in the Middle East and Africa regions. The first edition of the annual exhibition will take place at Dubai Exhibition Centre, United Arab Emirates, from 29 to 31 January 2024.

28-03-2023

Sustainability

Reducing carbon emission – a just transition

Reducing carbon emissions looks quite straightforward on the face of it, not simple or easy, of course, but straightforward: just stop doing so much of the stuff that creates them. Reduce energy consumption, switch to renewables, cut waste and so forth.

24-03-2023

Cutting

FESPA Global Print Expo 2023 set to welcome strong line-up of 490 international exhibitors

490 exhibiting companies are already confirmed to participate at FESPA Global Print Expo, European Sign Expo and Personalisation Experience 2023, including 95 suppliers who were unable to attend the events in the last two years due to travel restrictions.

20-03-2023

Sustainability

ISO 22067-1 is published

Laurel Brunner discusses ISO 22067-1 which requires the communication of environmental aspects or printed products. Laurel shares how this standard is relevant for most print applications.

08-03-2023

Sustainability

How to print sustainably and protect the environment

Sustainability is a key factor when it comes to making new products. This also applicable to print products, but what does this mean for printers? Sonja Angerer discusses how printers can adapt to the new sustainable market?

08-03-2023

Sustainability

Global Technical experts to discuss print standards in ISO meetings

Technical experts from around the world are set to gather in London for the upcoming ISO meetings on print standards.

07-03-2023

Software

Sustainable Manufacturing Insights, Developments, Software and Automation

As we enter the gates of an age of compliance, regulation and certification are now paramount. What we manufacture, the materials we choose, and the technology utilised must be worthy of the finest microscopic interrogation. Transparency and Traceability are the new norm and are now integral to the print supplier’s workflow.

20-02-2023

Business Advice

Biodegradable, compostable or recyclable: the problem with plastics

Clare Taylor of Clare Taylor Consulting discusses navigating the terminology of breaking down plastics substrates sustainably.

17-02-2023

Sustainability

RedBOND Composites commits to Sustainability with new plan

RedBOND Composites is an European aluminium composite manufacturer for digital printing and visual communication. Two years ago, RedBOND launched a wide Sustainability Plan to highlight its great respect for people and the environment.

06-02-2023

Sustainability

Time to achieve net zero

Laurel Brunner advises businesses to make us of ISO Net-Zero Guidelines which features various recommendations and guiding principles regarding achieving net-zero carbon dioxide by 2050.

01-02-2023

Sustainability

Climate and biodiversity COPs 2022

The end of 2022 saw two Conferences of the Parties (COPs): 27 for climate and 15 for biodiversity. Both different topics, very closely entwined, with one common problem – our planet is being damaged by our activities. The solutions are very simple: do less of what’s causing the problem and more to put it right.

20-01-2023

Business Advice

Diversity and Industry 5.0

Why diversity and inclusion fit in with a more human approach that will bring stability and success to forward-thinking companies.

20-01-2023

Tomorrow's World

Closing the loop: recycling in plastics and signage

Plastics distributor Vink brings circular economy principles to its takeback scheme for plastic signage to significantly reduce its carbon emissions.

20-01-2023

Sustainability

Taking a sustainable path with inks

With the environment a key consideration in all print jobs Rob Fletcher takes a look at how the choice of inks can help print service providers to improve the sustainability of their operations.

19-01-2023

Interior Printing

FESPA announces expanded 2023 global events calendar

FESPA has confirmed the dates of all its global events in 2023, including FESPA Global Print Expo and European Sign Expo, the all-new WrapFest and Personalisation Experience, and regional events in Africa, Brazil, Dubai, Mexico and Eurasia.

17-01-2023

Sustainability

How book printers can make a sustainability difference

Making a difference for the climate depends on print service providers and customers working together to cut emissions. Obviously printing companies and their supply chains recognise this, but there is still much more that must be done to change sustainability minds and attitudes.

04-01-2023

Tomorrow's World

Why sustainability = profitability

How to create value and innovate while sticking to environmental values. This is part two of our conversation with Andrew Winston, one of the world’s most respected thought leaders on the issue of sustainability.

16-12-2022

Cutting

What are the possible future trends for 2023?

Reflecting on the past year and the key trends experienced by the print industry, Rob Fletcher looks ahead to 2023 and considers some of the main factors that will impact businesses in 2023.

16-12-2022

Tomorrow's World

What impact does being a net positive business have on the industry?

We spoke to Andrew Winston, one of the world’s most respected thought leaders on the issue of sustainability – and co-author with former Unilever chief Paul Polman of the recent book Net Positive – about the changes that need to happen to businesses in general, and printers in particular.

16-12-2022