PONTE VERDA BEACH, FL—At the recent fifth annual Digital Packaging Summit 2019 in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, Koenig & Bauer was recognized with the coveted “Company to Watch” award. Organized and managed by NAPCO Media and Packaging Impressions magazine, the Digital Packaging Summit 2019, a three-day, invitation-only gathering, played host to 95 printing/packaging executives anxious to expand their knowledge of digital technology as it relates to their package printing and associated businesses.
On hand were 43 solution providers, including Koenig & Bauer, who presented to and interacted with the packaging executives, sharing case studies and firsthand reactions by users of the sponsoring companies’ technologies. Label and packaging executives at this year’s summit voted Koenig & Bauer as the “Company to Watch,” basing their decision on what they see in the market and what they hear at the summit.
“The Digital Packaging Summit is an extremely unique opportunity to present our company’s digital vision and provides the opportunity for personal round table discussions on the future direction of our industry,” said Eric Frank, senior vice president of marketing and product management at Koenig & Bauer. “We are very proud to receive this coveted award.”
Koenig & Bauer was also represented by Maik Laubin, sales director of digital solutions for the VariJET 106. “This event was an outstanding venue for Koenig & Bauer to inform the market on our new VariJET 106 digital 41-in. press and further understand the exact needs of the folding carton market,” said Laubin. “The VariJET 106 will be launched at drupa 2020 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and we expect tremendous excitement about Koenig & Bauer’s digital initiative that will help our customers grow into new markets and enhance their capabilities. We enjoyed meeting with attendees to understand their options, challenges, economics and critical decision-making criteria.”
At the summit, attendees learned more about the new VariJET 106. The VariJET 106 combines the strengths of digital inkjet with those of classic offset printing and inline finishing by integrating inkjet technology into the platform of the high-performance Rapida 106 offset press. The consistent modular concept combines the opportunities of digital inkjet with the acknowledged print and inline finishing capabilities of the offset process. Coating, cold foil transfer and printing before the inkjet unit, coating, printing and die cutting thereafter. With the VariJET 106, printers are ideally equipped to produce the packaging of the future, whether that means personalized and individualized print products or constant alternation between short and medium runs. As a modular system, the VariJET 106 can be configured exactly the way a printer requires for its particular production needs. It is this unique flexibility which defines the VariJET 106 as one of the most productive and most cost-efficient hybrid printing systems on the emerging market for digital packaging printing, according to Koenig & Bauer.
The Digital Packaging Summit puts users and suppliers together to show how digital printing technology in labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and corrugated materials can deliver a bottom-line difference, with presentations by leading analysts and industry experts, in-depth real-world case studies in intimate boardroom settings, and focused one-on-one meetings.
“Koenig & Bauer (US) has been a loyal supporter of the Digital Packaging Summit since we started the event in 2015,” said David Pesko, executive vice president at NAPCO Media and event director. “We congratulate them on winning this coveted award. The ‘Company to Watch’ award is voted on by all of our executive attendees and represents the sponsor they feel is poised for success, the most innovative, and a company to keep an eye on moving forward.”