GlassPrint 2017 announces conference programme

The programme also attracts industry figureheads as keynote speakers and a specially selected panel of glass decoration experts join together for the GlassPrint LIVE open forum to answer topical questions from the audience.

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS WILL INCLUDE:

• - 3D-Printing of glass now possible (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• - Digital printing opens a new way of marketing glass bottles (Curvink / TILL)
• - Flat glass screen printing market: key industry trends, technologies and geographic markets etc (Smithers)
• - Digital glass gilding technology for decoration (Heraeus)
• - Achieving perfect results printing directly on bottles with a scalable and easy to use industrial system for screen printing (Gallus)
• - Decoration of architectural glass using inkjet printing (Tiger Coatings)
• - How to benefit from Cloud Computing and Industry 4.0 as a glass printer (KBA Kammann)
• - Screen printing – the importance of a perfect screen (Grunig/SignTronic)
• - Inorganic/organic decoration of glass substrates (Ferro)
• - Screen printing of hollow and flat glass: Latest developments, advantages of organic inks, effects for the beverage industry (Marabu)
• - Atmospheric pressure plasma for patterned inkjet printing and coating on glass (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
• - Ink development which can be tempered up to 1000°C…. compared with other ceramic inks can be printed with a resolution of 1440 dpi (Ormo Print)
• - New glass screen printing ink developments (Proell)

More technical presentations due from ColorGATE, ISIMAT, K-Flow and others!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE INDUSTRY FIGUREHEADS REPRESENTING:

• - BV Glas (The Federal Association of the German Glass Industry)
• - FEVE (The European Container Glass Federation)
• - Glass for Europe (trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of building, automotive and transport glass)
• - Messe Düsseldorf (organisers of glasstec 2016)