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drupa photo gallery #1
I hit the show floor only three hours after landing in Dusseldorf yesterday, and while tired doesn't begin to describe how I felt after 17 hours and two hectic flight connections from Chicago, I quickly got caught up in the drupa show excitement. (Isn't it amazing what the staff of Converting goes through to bring the latest industry news to our loyal readers?)
Here are just a couple shots from a few of the package printing and converting exhibitors.
The new Gallus ICS 670 folding-carton production line (in Hall 3) has been drawing huge crowds for every demonstration (three times a day in English and once in Deutsch). It reportedly converts a blank web of paperboard into a finished carton in the space of a 90-ft equipment footprint at speeds of up to 1,100 fpm. (Thanks to Gallus president Ferd. Ruesch for letting me take some clandestine photos.)
A press operator changes a sleeve on Uteco Converting's new Diamond HP 808 CI-flexo press (also in Hall 3 right next to Gallus). The system is printing high-resolution images on flex-pack film with water-based inks using both photopolymer plates and engraved sleeves.
Okay, so this Jack Russell terrier wasn't one of the exhibitors, but he was dolled up in his T-shirt as "The drupa dog." If you've ever been to a drupa show, you know the city and Messe Dusseldorf go nuts with red banners and posters and signs everywhere hailing drupa city, drupa cube, drupa this and drupa that. The dog's name is (and I'm not making this up) Poopsi. I guess his owner was just getting into the spirit of the show.
More photos and snappy captions next week...
drupa photo gallery #1
June 5, 2008
I hit the show floor only three hours after landing in Dusseldorf yesterday, and while tired doesn't begin to describe how I felt after 17 hours and two hectic flight connections from Chicago, I quickly got caught up in the drupa show excitement. (Isn't it amazing what the staff of Converting goes through to bring the latest industry news to our loyal readers?)Here are just a couple shots from a few of the package printing and converting exhibitors.
The new Gallus ICS 670 folding-carton production line (in Hall 3) has been drawing huge crowds for every demonstration (three times a day in English and once in Deutsch). It reportedly converts a blank web of paperboard into a finished carton in the space of a 90-ft equipment footprint at speeds of up to 1,100 fpm. (Thanks to Gallus president Ferd. Ruesch for letting me take some clandestine photos.)A press operator changes a sleeve on Uteco Converting's new Diamond HP 808 CI-flexo press (also in Hall 3 right next to Gallus). The system is printing high-resolution images on flex-pack film with water-based inks using both photopolymer plates and engraved sleeves.Okay, so this Jack Russell terrier wasn't one of the exhibitors, but he was dolled up in his T-shirt as "The drupa dog." If you've ever been to a drupa show, you know the city and Messe Dusseldorf go nuts with red banners and posters and signs everywhere hailing drupa city, drupa cube, drupa this and drupa that. The dog's name is (and I'm not making this up) Poopsi. I guess his owner was just getting into the spirit of the show.More photos and snappy captions next week...
Posted by Mark Spaulding on June 5, 2008 | Comments (0)
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