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The drupa (formerly DRUPA, abbreviation of Dru ck and Pa pier) is the world's largest trade fair of the print media . It is considered to be the most important exhibition in the printing and print media industry . The fair has been held in Düsseldorf every 4 to 5 years since 1951 (most recently from May 31 to June 10, 2016).
From 2016 it was planned to have the Drupa take place every three years, i.e. 2019. However, this was revised during the fair. The next drupa 2020 would have taken place in Düsseldorf, but was postponed to April 20-30 , 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . With Heidelberger Druckmaschinen one of the largest exhibitors announced not to participate in the fair in the year 2021st
Exhibition content
At drupa, printing and media prepress (systems, devices, accessories), printing machines (devices, accessories), bookbinding / further processing (machines, devices, accessories), paper processing (machines, devices, accessories), materials / consumables and related services will be offered . In addition, there are now numerous special shows and informative events such as the “drupa Innovation parc” and the “cube”; Here, topics of workflow, standards or, more generally, the effects of digitization are presented.
The main focus of drupa 2016 was Premedia & Print, Post press / converting / packaging, Future technologies as well as Materials and Multichannel. The offer was supplemented by the presentation of accessories, services and infrastructure.
Key figures
| DRUPA year | Exhibition space in m² | Visitors from countries | Exhibitors from countries | Highlights | president |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 18,450 | 195.185 | 527 from 10 | " Original Heidelberger Tiegel " with 5000 printed sheets per hour | Hubert Sternberg |
| 1954 | 35,000 | 226,388 | 764 from 13 | Cliché engraving machine | Hubert Sternberg |
| 1958 | 43,000 | 185.936 | 688 from 13 | Photocomposition | Hubert Sternberg |
| 1962 | 48,000 | 180.483 | 678 from 16 | Offset printing | Hubert Sternberg |
| 1967 | 57,785 | 214,694 | 945 from 19 | Compensating stacker | Hubert Sternberg |
| 1972 | 100,789 | 268.713 | 958 from 27 | Small offset printing with 8000 sheets per hour | Kurt Werner |
| 1977 | 99,639 | 284,806 | 1108 from 22 | UV curing ink systems | Kurt Werner |
| 1982 | 104.291 | 293.059 | 1275 from 29 | Web offset printing | Kurt Werner |
| 1986 | 122,711 | 373,656 | 1465 from 33 | Data exchange | Kurt Werner |
| 1990 | 126,811 | 444.214 | 1760 from 36 | Fully digitized machines and secondary systems | Kurt Werner |
| 1995 | 142.056 | 385.098 | 1670 from 44 | Computer to plate | Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann |
| 2000 | 158,875 | 428,248 out of 171 | 1943 from 50 | Complex " solution providers " | Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann |
| 2004 | 161,000 | 394,478 out of 127 | 1866 from 52 | Networking, book-on-demand | Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann |
| 2008 | 175.272 | 389.993 | 1968 from 53 | Digital technologies, large format machines | Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann |
| 2012 | 165.159 | 314,500 | 1850 from 52 | Hybrid technology, nano ink, printed electronics | Bernhard Schreier |
| 2016 | 260,000 out of 188 | 1837 from 54 | Printing industry 4.0, inkjet printing machines | Claus Bolza-Schünemann |
The largest exhibitor is Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft. Other exhibitors include Eizo , Agfa Graphics, Canon , Hewlett-Packard , Xerox , Konica Minolta , Ricoh , Kodak , Koenig & Bauer , Wohlenberg Buchbindesysteme , Muller Martini , manroland , Kern , Siegwerk Druckfarben , Pitney Bowes and Océ NV
Comparable trade fairs
Comparable but not so big trade fairs are the IPEX (Great Britain), All in Print (Shanghai), PRINT (Chicago), Graph Expo and Converting Expo (Chicago), LabelExpo (Brussels), EmbaxPrint (Brno), Pack Print International (Bangkok ), Security Printing (Ljubljana), Sign & Graphic Imaging (Dubai), Fespa Digital (Europe), Print World (Toronto) and China Print (Beijing).
history
Before the start of the Second World War, the last printing trade fair took place in 1938 in the Bugra building in Leipzig . From 1951 the DRUPA started. It was opened in 1967 by Karl Schiller and drupa President Hubert Sternberg. In 1972, the 6th International Printing and Paper Fair took place for the first time in the new exhibition center in Düsseldorf-Stockum .
The proportion of foreigners among the visitors increased from 20 percent (1972) to 60 percent (2012). At Drupa 2012, 613 exhibitors came from Germany and 1,231 from abroad.
drupa songs
In 1986 a piece of music was composed for the first time at a drupa. Since 2000 there has been a so-called drupa song for every event. The song for 2012 and 2016 was sung by Dirk Zeisler.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ drupa stays with the tried and tested four-year cycle. (No longer available online.) In: Press releases drupa. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, June 7, 2016, archived from the original on June 8, 2016 ; accessed on June 8, 2016 : "The leading trade fair for print and cross-media solutions from June 23 to July 3, 2020 in Düsseldorf again" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Coronavirus is spreading: drupa postponed to April 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Heidelberg addresses customers individually and digitally. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft; Annual report 2003/2004
- ↑ DRUPA2016: Committee is enlarged
- ↑ PDF at www.messe-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ drupa print media fair. (No longer available online.) In: www.drupa.de. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
