It will focus on shrink sleeves and flexible packaging

MPS Systems Asia is opening its doors to greet customers on 6 September 2022 at its office and showroom in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The open house will include presentations covering the latest industry trends and a live demonstration of the MPS EF-530 seventh-generation flexo press with eight colour flexo units and one EXLp packaging station. And it will focus on shrink sleeves, flexible packaging, and the benefits of connectivity and performance optimization.

“We are pleased to bring together our Asia-Pacific agent network and customers in Kuala Lumpur to provide an informative presentation agenda and demonstrate the EF-530 next-generation flexo press,” said Tim Klappe, managing director of the Asia Pacific at MPS. “This beautiful, state-of-the-art press will feature powerful, flexible packaging capabilities such as pouches, wrap-around, and shrink sleeve labels, which is a lucrative growth market here in Asia.”

Also taking place on 7 September 2022 is a tabletop exhibition at MPS Systems Asia where customers will have the opportunity to interact and ask questions directly with industry partners. 

MPS launched the latest EF fully automated multi-substrate flexo machine earlier this year, which is equipped with the slide-out ink drawer as standard, eSleeves, improved Job Memory functionality and two automation levels to ensure the highest quality printing with the fastest changeover time between jobs, and connectivity and performance improvements with MPSConnect. 

The EF next-generation press to be featured in the showroom during the open house was purchased by a customer in Malaysia who specializes in shrink sleeve label production.

On 6 September 2022, Tim Klappe will welcome visitors to the open house and provide the introduction and demonstration of the EF-530 next-generation flexo press.

Presentation topics and guest speakers are – ‘The MPS Vision and the power of connectivity by Atze Bosma, chief executive officer of the company, ‘The challenges of the transition from gravure to flexo’ by Steve Smith, Principal Consultant at Miraclon Corporation, ‘Ink & lamination adhesives for flexible packaging – Narrow web’ by David Robins, regional sales & marketing manager, Flexo Ink Business, AP Region, and ‘Experiences of flexible packaging and shrink sleeve printing on an MPS narrow web press’ by Frank ten Broek, company’s manager of the Technology & Excellence Centre. 

The open house will conclude with networking and open discussion. Label printers and converters who wish to attend the open house on 6 September and the tabletop exhibition held on 7 September can register here.

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.

The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.

Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.

As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.

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