Das must-attend Event der Branche

"Since 1957, BOBST has attended every drupa. As a major player in the packaging industry, we value opportunities to meet with all our customers in a location where we can reveal strategies and novelties, and discover the future of our industry. drupa provides a unique opportunity and brings a new impetus to the industry in a formalized way, making trends more visible and tangible. For the upcoming drupa 2024, which will take place 8 years after the previous one for all the reasons we know, we expect more focus on sustainable innovations, evolutions of current technologies, search for new packaging trends and less on machines demonstrations. The future of the packaging industry will be shaped by its ability to cope with a more digitalized world, leading to greater sustainability. For drupa 2024, we expect fewer participants, but intensified network development with industry leaders and key players – all looking at opportunities between brand owners, converters, industry suppliers, and governmental representatives, as the future of our industry can only be built together."

Jean-Pascal Bobst
CEO Bobst Group SA

"Die Bedeutung unserer Branche ist nach wie vor groß. Die letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, welchen hohen Stellenwert die Druck- und Papiertechnik im täglichen Leben einnimmt: Ohne Druck wird nichts versendet oder verpackt. Die Industrie entwickelt sich weiter und arbeitet kontinuierlich an Verbesserungen, wobei die Themen Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit ganz oben auf der Agenda stehen.

Wir alle vermissen die persönlichen Treffen, die auch in unserer Branche so wichtig sind. Die drupa ist als lebendige Präsenzmesse unverzichtbar, um gemeinsam Ideen zu entwickeln und durch einen produktiven und kreativen Austausch die Branche voranzutreiben.

Ich freue mich auf die drupa 2024, wenn sich die Druckindustrie wieder in Düsseldorf trifft."

"DRUPA for me is a pilgrimage and a must for each and every printer of the world. Bhagwad Geeta says ‘Work is Worship’ or in other words only your work is your God, it is therefore visiting DRUPA is the best and foremost pilgrimage to wash away our sins, like, less knowledge, lack of understanding and at the same time it is the rare occasion to know and understand the things to come, the shape and style of Future Printing. I believe, for the success and growth in printing and packaging industry DRUPA plays a key role.

DRUPA is the major and unique source of knowledge, one can gather as much knowledge not only for the present but for future technologies and innovations. DRUPA is the platform for networking with ‘people-in-print’ from across the globe, to understand their challenges in printing. Even the inventors and manufacturers wait for drupa to showcase their innovations and technologies for the future. I always equate DRUPA with Kumbh Mela, a major pilgrimage and considered to be the world’s largest festival in India. As already said, if you wish to taste the holy nectar of latest knowledge, and future technologies DRUPA is the unique place in this world."

Prof. Kamal Mohan Chopra
President, World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF)

"The megatrend of digitization has seen a small but significant reversal as a result of CMO’s responses to the pandemic and data protection rules. The resurgence of direct mail, coupled with an acute demand for printed material has seen some printing companies facing greater customer demand and challenges including how to operate with fewer available staff. The packaging industry has proved to be resilient yet is also having to cope with rising costs of substrate and higher utilities bills. The blend of learning at drupa presents the cutting edge of technology that serves to respond to those pressures through efficiency and maximised productivity. Understanding where and how to offer that innovation in manufacture in print rests on understanding, crucially, how it competes and collaborates.

There is a hunger for the beacon events, such as drupa, a recognition that real events are essential for a satisfying and complete human experience. Let’s make sure we share it with the youth of our industry and secure its future. Roll on drupa 2024."

"Being open, looking forward, and having an appetite for change and optimism about the future are key to success – both as business leaders and within organisational cultures. Drupa 2024, as with previous drupas, represents the great opportunity to form or renew contacts, to see and experience new technologies, and, more broadly, to gain a strong sense of where the focus is in our industry as it develops.  There really is nothing quite like it, and I have no doubt that it’ll be supercharged this time round.

As the leading UK Print Trade Association, we’re greatly looking forwards to supporting our members at drupa24, and, as an organisation, can hardly wait to be there, to gain that boost of energy and insight that it always brings, and to make new friends and catch up with existing ones."

"Already for decades trade fairs drive the printing industry. This is the place to see new innovations and meet new business partners. Xeikon has been on every Drupa since 1995 and a lot of our new developments had even been timed to meet the show’s deadline.

The current situation will not change the need for information and knowledge exchange. On the contrary. The pandemic situation has in many cases accelerated trends that were already there before. For instance, there are many great tools available now for product presentation and promotion that easily visualize and explain exactly the setup you want. That will create a shift for trade fairs. People will visit fairs much more prepared and informed in advance as they can find online all relevant info in a comfortable way. At Xeikon we notice that the past, almost, 2 years, the relationships with our prospects and customers have become even more important. Our focus for a trade fair may shift more to emphasize that aspect and really see it as a VIP opportunity to physically meet up with the industry."

“drupa is the heartbeat of our industry. It gives us, as one of the major exhibitors, a world of opportunity to present and celebrate the trend universes of print to a global audience. Print will always be vital in cross-channel communications and, with the continuing evolution of technologies, it has extended way beyond graphical and packaging applications.

Working in a truly collaborative approach with customers and other partners, we can’t wait to meet people again in Düsseldorf. drupa is where we renew friendships and develop new, lasting business relationships. As a global leader in digital transformation and sustainability solutions, we help customers to ignite the art of rethinking what’s possible and bring ideas to life. Opportunities are everywhere at drupa.”

"Die drupa ist in hohem Mass international. Der Austausch mit Entscheidungsträgern aus aller Welt steht im Fokus. Auch bildet die dupa verschiedenste Facetten der Druckindustrie ab, was ein breites Publikum anzieht und uns Zugang zu verschiedensten Märkten verschafft."

Carmen Eicher
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, swissQprint

"We know that drupa has always been the benchmark reference for innovation in the graphic arts industry, not only observing, but also driving the pulse of the industry.
For many years now, drupa has provided the perfect forum for us to showcase our next-generation technology developments for the packaging industry and share our latest integrated software and hardware releases.
I’m convinced the industry would not be where it is today without the momentum of the four-yearly global industry gathering that is drupa."

Jan De Roeck
Director, Industry Relations & Strategic Marketing, Esko.

"Die drupa ist die wichtigste Messe für die grafische Industrie. Alle Entscheider, Innovatoren, aber auch Anbieter und Verarbeiter der fortschrittlichsten Technologien kommen hier zusammen, präsentieren ihre Lösungen und bestaunen neue Trends – diesen Termin kann und will kein Marktteilnehmer verpassen. Wir freuen uns jetzt schon darauf, 2024 unsere innovativen Lösungen – allen voran in Sachen Nachhaltigkeit – präsentieren zu können. KURZ als Familienunternehmen liegt dieses Thema sehr am Herzen. Wir haben viel Zeit und Ressourcen investiert, um den Transferprozess beim Veredeln umweltschonender zu gestalten und um qualitativ hochwertige, aber auch recyclingfähige Dekorationen zu entwickeln. Damit sind wir der Kreislaufwirtschaft einen großen Schritt nähergekommen – ein Erfolg, der die gesamte Branche voranbringen kann und den wir gerne im Rahmen der drupa 2024 weiter in den Markt tragen wollen."

Walter Kurz
Vorstand der LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG