UPCOMING EVENTS
FESPA / SIGN AFRICA EXPO 2017 SOUTH AFRICA
Sign Africa provides an ideal platform into Africa for the sign, design, graphics and marketing arenas. South Africa is the gateway into Africa. Sign Africa offers the opportunity for local and international visitors to investigate the various available business ventures, gathering ideas from the range of new products for the signage and display industries.
The event will take place from 13-15 September 2017 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa and will be co-located with FESPA Africa and Africa Print Expos, the region’s leading events for the signage and print industries.
South Africa is the gateway into Africa and is a prime location for the Sign Africa expo. It is at the centre of Africa’s economy and has a thriving tourism industry. The city is easily accessible from neighbouring countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe with direct connections into the OR Tambo International Airport, not far from the Gallagher Convention Centre by the Gautrain (a modern high speed train) and a newly upgraded freeway infrastructure.
Covering 13,000sqm and with the objective of attracting 6,000+ visitors, Sign Africa provides an ideal platform for visitors to investigate available business ventures, innovative products, technology, applications and education programmes for the signage and display industries in the sub-Saharan region.
PROPAK EXPO
Propak West Africa stems from the largest and most successful packaging and printing brand of exhibitions in Africa. With the market leading exhibition in East Africa and South Africa, the organisers truly know the market in Africa and how to attract the best people.
In having three exhibitions in the ‘corners’ of Africa, it allows companies to access the three main markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, through a tried and trusted exhibition, and the huge potential that they each offer.
THE PACKAGING, FOOD PROCESSING, PLASTICS, PRINTING, LABELLING AND WINE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT EXPO
TOTAL PACKAGING SOLUTIONS
If you want your business or product to stay ahead of the pack, then exhibiting at Propak Cape 2017 is a must. Looking for new prospects and customers? Want to launch new products or demo new equipment? Need to keep track of what competitors are doing? Interested in a medium to increase sales leads that is more time and cost-effective than sales calls or visits? Then look no further! Propak Expo in Cape Town 2017 in South Africa is the place to be from 24 to 26 October 2017.
Packaging is big business in the Western Cape, especially when you consider the number of exports from this region. When you think about the fruit, vegetables, fish, wine and flowers that the Cape packages and ships all over the world, you’ll wonder if there could be a more perfect location for the biggest packaging and related industries expo of its kind.
Inspiring your business: this is viscom, the only specialist trade fair in Europe which provides a 360 degree overview of visual communication while giving impulses across sectors. Besides inspiring synergies through the six themes – large format printing – signmaking – interior design – in the “Technologies and Materials” area and – digital signage – POS display – POS packaging – in the “Applications and Marketing” area – viscom provides a clear structure and gives each sector a space for its own identity.
The unique mix of technologies and materials with applications and marketing as well as featuring the latest developments and trends in the field of visual communication, the fair offers effective orientation in a market characterised by multiple demands and business models.
The six themes are clearly structured visually and materially within the exhibition halls, providing clear orientation for the wide variety of target groups. On the “Technology and Materials” side the viscom targets machinery and materials buyers, signmakers, print service providers and interior designers, whereas on the “Applications and Marketing” side the targets are brand name companies, retail and industrial marketing managers, agencies, creative artists and designers.
What is decisive for both exhibitors and visitors alike is that the viscom represents a mixture of traditional trade fair, application-oriented special shows, the prestigious European “Digital Signage Best Practice, Best of, Superstar, designmaker and European Wrap Star awards” and invaluable talks which supplement the fair in a pioneering and visionary way. The viscom brings people and ideas together to generate new know-how for good business.
The viscom provides answers to questions such as: What is possible? How is it done? Who can do it? In short: Inspiring your business.
20th PPPEXPO Africa is the only dedicated industry specific international trade show for Plastics, Printing & Packaging Industry in the entire East African region that promises to be an excellent platform to forge business alliances, showcase technological and interact directly with the African traders from the East, Central & South African region.
Exhibitors from over 30 countries participating at Kenya’s Biggest Int’l. Trade Exhibition
PPPEXPO Africa is the only dedicated industry specific international trade show for Plastics, Printing & Packaging Industry in the entire East African region that promises to be an excellent platform to forge business alliances, showcase technological and interact directly with the African traders from the East, Central & South African region.
Africa is one of the fastest growing markets in the world and PPPEXPO Africa will attract thousands of buyers and decision makers from all levels and sectors of Plastics, Printing & Packaging Industry and aims to promote a direct business link between buyers and sellers. Kenya, the gateway to the East African Market is fast emerging as a distribution & supply hub to the entire plastics, printing & packaging industry in the East African region.
Besides its own market of about 33 million customers, Kenya is the only distributor of goods to other East African countries such as Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and several others situated on the east coast of Africa, estimated to be around 380 million customers. Having the largest sea port in Mombasa, the country is the largest source of incoming products by sea, to the East African region, from the Middle East, the Indian Sub-continent, Europe & Far East.
SCREEN PRINT EXPO KENYA 29 – 31 OCTOBER 2017
The International Exhibition on Screen Printing | Textile Printing | Digital Printing | Sign & Signage Systems | Label Printing, Sublimation Printing. Explore 5 Segments Under One Roof. This three-day international show will cover a wide range of segments such as Screen Printing, Textile Printing, Digital Printing, Sign & Signage Systems, Label Printing and Sublimation Printing, providing a rare opportunity to seize business growth opportunities.
CIPPON: ADDRESSING PRINTING CAPACITY IN NIGERIA
A press conference held on the 14th March, 2017 at the Ikeja Club, Ogba Lagos. Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria (CIPPON) called on print stakeholders in the country to a press conference. This call was made by CIPPON President/ Chairman-In-Council, Mr. Wahab Aderemi Mohammed Lawal, in his opening speech addressing printing capacity in Nigeria has he expressed his disappointment in the INEC chairman, prof. Mahmood Yakubu who says “Nigerian printers do not have the capacity to print ballot paper’’ which prompted the press conference.
“Senator Emmanuel Uba gave his word that anything we want to do to take the printing industry forward they will give their full support and when it was time to swear-in the new INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, we wrote a letter which was given to the senates, at the swearing-in everyone contributed to the discussion but when it got to the turn of the chairman to contribute the president said they are going to use only senate, therefore nothing was been said about CIPPON even though we had written letters and all the senates had a copy. I accused the P.A to the National Assembly Chairman that ‘‘none of your senators talked about CIPPON and you are a key players in CIPPON’’. We have tried every means to carry the new INEC chairman along with the activities of the institution and he is aware of the institution and the law that established it. The INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu refuses to listen to the act of parliament.
The INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu said “we do not have the capacity to print ballot papers” my question is, can a non-printer access the printing capacity?
Which of the printing capacity is the chairman referring to by saying we don’t have the capacity to print ballot papers?
By what system or method, under whose enquiry did he access this capacity in Nigeria before making this statement?
Who advised him? I believe there must be someone damaging the reputation of printers and CIPPON for their own personal selfish interest and I emphatically call them ROGUES, this is the right time to make our voice known. They give out contracts that can be handled by Nigerian printers to non-Nigerian printers and we have the facilities. I visited the Academy, the machines in print academy are lying idle without usage, the machines are not faulty but there are no contracts and they say we do not have the capacity. Let’s put regulation into practice.” says Mr. Wahab Aderemi Mohammed Lawal.
Quite a number of stakeholders aired their views in respect to the ridiculing statement made by the INEC chairman. How can he say there is no capacity and they keep awarding huge contracts to printers outside the country, if those contracts are awarded in our own country it will develop our own capacity, they are only killing our own economy by awarding the contracts to other countries. Even if they want to award the contracts to foreigners, they should ask them to come and set up their businesses here just to build our economy.
In summary, after all contributions and plans on next actions, CIPPON and stakeholders agreed not to be quiet because it’s government. Nigerian printing has the capacity to do INEC jobs and the people undermining us have no knowledge of printing, they know nothing. The year ballot papers were printed outside Nigeria and the papers wasn’t sufficient; more copies were printed in Nigeria within 2-3weeks and now they say we don’t have the capacity to print ballot papers? It is important to correct the negative notion about Nigerian printers.
After the press conference a Meeting was held on the 22nd of March between selected printers and INEC Chairman, Subsequent to the CIPPON press conference held on Tuesday 14th of March. This meeting was coordinated and facilitated by Alhaji Yahya Amfani, CEO, Yaliam Press Limited, Abuja.