Program of the DIPA Symposium 2021 is fixed

The pro­gram for the sec­ond DIPA Sym­po­sium has now been final­ized. The con­fer­ence of the DIPA Asso­ci­a­tion for Sur­face Design with Dig­i­tal Print­ing (Dig­i­tal Print­ing Asso­ci­a­tion) will bring togeth­er inter­na­tion­al experts and users from the indus­try on Sep­tem­ber 29, 2021, to high­light cur­rent trends on the top­ic of “design­ing sur­faces your­self,” report on expe­ri­ences, and pro­vide space for exchange. Due to the COVID 19 pan­dem­ic, the con­fer­ence will be held as a hybrid event in Han­nover this year. The Ger­man- and Eng­lish-lan­guage pre­sen­ta­tions and pan­el dis­cus­sions will be streamed live from the H’Up in Hall 18 at the Han­nover Exhi­bi­tion Grounds. Reg­is­tra­tions for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the con­fer­ence — both on-site in Han­nover and on the live stream — are now open online.

The pro­gram is made up of three the­mat­ic blocks, intro­duced by an open­ing keynote speech by Stef­fen Orth on the top­ic of “From prod­uct to ecosys­tem: suc­cess cri­te­ria for dig­i­tal décor print­ing”. The process and inno­va­tion expert for dig­i­tal print­ing projects will shed light on the suc­cess cri­te­ria of sophis­ti­cat­ed dig­i­tal print­ing projects: from the busi­ness mod­el to online con­nec­tiv­i­ty, col­or and qual­i­ty man­age­ment, and print­ing technology.

Inks & Chemistry” session

The pro­gram for the “Inks & Chem­istry” ses­sion will start with a pre­sen­ta­tion by Christi­na Bau­mann, Head of Dec­o­ra­tive Film Coat­ings, Plan­tag Coat­ings, whose talk will focus on tech­nol­o­gy trends in the field of fin­ish film coat­ings. She will high­light the oppor­tu­ni­ties that new raw mate­ri­als and cur­ing tech­nolo­gies can bring to the fin­ish foil industry.

Sus­tain­able tech­nol­o­gy trends and inno­va­tions from the coat­ings indus­try will be the focus of the pre­sen­ta­tion by Tuo­mas Aspi­ala, Com­mer­cial Man­ag­er Inno­va­tions, and Yan­nik Hof­mann, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er Floor­ing & Flat Pan­el, Teknos Group. They dis­cuss how new reg­u­la­tions and grow­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty require­ments for indus­tri­al sur­face coat­ings and process­es may present new oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges for pro­duc­ers and con­vert­ers of UV coatings.

What about sus­tain­abil­i­ty in the ink sec­tor? Are there spe­cial out­door inks and what needs to be con­sid­ered here? Dr. Ste­fan Kap­paun, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent Inks and Flu­ids, Durst Group, will show this in his pre­sen­ta­tion “Ink devel­op­ment on the top­ics of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and out­door respec­tive­ly”. Dr. Simon Leim­gru­ber, Head of R&D Exte­ri­or Indus­tri­al Coat­ings, ADLER-Werk Lack­fab­rik, will then dis­cuss the future out­door mar­ket with dig­i­tal­ly print­ed surfaces.

The block of pre­sen­ta­tions will end with a pan­el dis­cus­sion. Dr. Simon Leim­gru­ber, Dr. Ste­fan Kap­paun, Christi­na Bau­mann and Yan­nik Hof­mann will exchange views on trends and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. Sym­po­sium par­tic­i­pants are invit­ed to dis­cuss with the pan­el experts.

Session “Decor Design & Development

The fol­low­ing ses­sion will focus on “Decor Design & Devel­op­ment.” Robert Bier­fre­und, COO, Inter­print GmbH, will present the devel­op­ment of new stan­dards for dig­i­tal decor print­ing. He will pro­vide an insight into the com­plex­i­ties involved, in order to define the com­mon require­ments for a stan­dard. Adri­an Mar­czak, Head of Décor Development/Digital Print­ing, Surte­co Decor, will also address cur­rent inno­va­tions for décor devel­op­ment in his presentation.

Technology & Software session

The third ses­sion will focus on “Tech­nol­o­gy & Soft­ware”. The qual­i­ty stan­dards in dig­i­tal decor print­ing are high and can­not be met with con­ven­tion­al col­or man­age­ment approach­es. Oliv­er Guth, Key Account Man­ag­er Indus­tri­al Print­ing, Col­or­GATE Dig­i­tal Out­put Solu­tions, will describe con­tem­po­rary work­flows and show how col­or and qual­i­ty can be kept under con­trol when hard­ware and soft­ware work together.

In the Q&A ses­sion mod­er­at­ed by Philipp Hen­ry, HOMAG Group, on the sub­ject of sin­gle-pass & mul­ti-pass from the cus­tomer’s point of view, Carsten Brinkmey­er, Head of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, Hym­men, and Tomio Kiyose, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er, Durst Group, will share their know-how. Again, con­fer­ence atten­dees are invit­ed to dis­cuss with the experts on stage.

Dig­i­tal print­ing has become a sig­nif­i­cant asset as a dec­o­ra­tion tech­nol­o­gy that can be inte­grat­ed into the coat­ing line. It makes even the short­est print runs prof­itable, with max­i­mum cus­tomiza­tion and min­i­mum lead times. These devel­op­ments will be addressed by Mario Gaz­zani, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er, Cefla Group, in his pre­sen­ta­tion “In Line Dig­i­tal Printing.

What is the Yel­low Brick Road and what does it have to do with dig­i­tal printing?
Royce Dodds, Spe­cial­ist Dig­i­tal Print­ing CC Group, EGGER Holzw­erk­stoffe Brilon, will show what it is all about.

The lec­ture series will con­clude with a con­tri­bu­tion from Dun­can Ross, Com­mer­cial Direc­tor, AVA CAD/CAM Group. The expert will address the top­ic of “From Design Devel­op­ment to Proof­ing to Dig­i­tal and Ana­log Production.”

The pro­gram con­cludes with a Q&A ses­sion. Final­ly, mod­er­a­tors Stephanie Wag­n­er, Deutsche Messe Han­nover, Philipp Hen­ry, HOMAG Group, and Oliv­er Lüdtke, Col­or­GATE, will sum­ma­rize the results and high­lights of the con­fer­ence day.

DIPA’s offer­ing is aimed at all com­pa­nies involved in the val­ue chain of an indi­vid­u­al­ly designed sur­face. From com­pa­nies that are already suc­cess­ful­ly using dig­i­tal print­ing, to sup­pli­ers of machines or con­sum­ables, to oth­er ser­vice providers who sup­port the cre­ation of an opti­mal cus­tomized surface.