IMI Europe, a conference and course provider, will be holding inkjet engineering and inkjet ink development conferences.
A press release said that the technical conference programmes will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland from 14 to 16 March this year. This follows IMI’s first inkjet ink development conference last year, where technical talks were “aimed at an audience of developers”, and this second conference will add to it a new “one-day inkjet engineering conference”.
This will be held 14 March at the Aquatis Hotel, Lausanne, Switzerland, and will comprise of 10 technical presentations from invited experts in the industry and the academic world, which will be “aimed at inkjet system developers and integrators”, with topics ranging from “practical overviews of the challenges of inkjet integration” as well as “theoretical modelling of printhead behaviour and inkjet processes” and also “overviews of key inkjet system components and introductions to new technology”.
Presenters will be coming from Ebeam Technologies, Edale, Exergen, Global Graphics Software, Global Inkjet Systems, Inca Digital Printers, Meteor Inkjet, Pall Filters, Reden and the University of Twente. The second conference will be held 15 to 16 March at the same hotel and will be on materials, equipment and techniques for digital printing ink development and manufacturing. There will be 20 invited speakers from the industry, and the talks will be designed for inkjet ink development chemists.
Talks will include “a focus on inks for decorative and functional applications”, as well as “raw materials, analytical equipment and techniques”. Presenters will be from: Alchemie Technology; Amazon Filters; Armor Industrial Inks; ImageXpert; Malvern Instruments; Mexar; Promethean Particles; Ricoh Europe; SPG Prints; Technische Universität Chemnitz; Tiger Coatings; University of Cambridge; University of Leeds; University of Manchester Graphene Centre; and X-rite.
Dr Tim Phillips, Managing Director o IMI Europe, said: “We had excellent attendance and feedback from our first technical conference event last year in Lausanne, with conference attendees enjoying the mix of technical talks from industry and academia. This year we aim to build on this success with the addition of the Inkjet Engineering Conference, continuing our mission to enable collaboration and learning within the inkjet industry.”