The IPIA and BAPC have met with The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and a key piece of confirmed guidance is that — following the representations of our industry’s associations — all print production can currently remain open for business.

Printing Industries of America (PIA) is seeking innovative print and graphic communications technologies for the 2020 InterTech™ Technology Awards. The annual competition hosted by PIA honors groundbreaking technologies set to alter the way companies provide services and produce jobs.

The Hunkeler Innovationdays will now be held from 21 to 24 February 2022 at the Lucerne Exhibition Centre. The international print industry event is focused on high-performance digital printing and finishing. The Hunkeler Innovationdays planned for 22-25 February 2021 will be postponed by one year to 21-24 February 2022.

Mid-March, the postponement of the world's leading trade fair for printing technologies, drupa, to April 20 - 30, 2021 was announced due to the exponential spread of the coronavirus. Director drupa and Global Head Print Technologies of Messe Düsseldorf, Sabine Geldermann, is now answering questions that concern the print industry.

UV ink specialist Zeller+Gmelin became a member of the PrintCity Alliance on 1 January 2020. The company has already contributed its expertise to joint projects in the past.

For the last two weeks the IPIA and BAPC have been in close communication with The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to advocate on behalf of the UK print industry and provide its Intelligence Gathering Unit with information from the coal face of our sector in regards to the impact of Covid-19 and what thousands of businesses need in order to remain solvent and retain their staff.

As of Monday, March 16, 2020, Printing Industries of America will begin operating at a reduced staffing capacity in its physical offices in response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. During this time, we are committed to providing our members the same quality service that they have come to expect over the years. If you need assistance, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or to reach a member of our staff directly visit www.printing.org/staff and click on the name of the staff person to access their profile. Thank you for your understanding during these unprecedented times.

Today, Printing Industries of America has called upon Congress to take swift legislative action to mitigate the economic impact of this pandemic on the printing and graphic communications industry by creating a federal emergency program to provide compensation for COVID-19-related employee leave.

Printing Industries of America is now accepting submissions for the 2020 Premier Print Awards competition, marking the program’s 72nd year honoring print excellence. The international competition is open to all companies involved in the creation or production of print communications, as well as students and student groups from high school, vocational school, or college print production programs.

Printing Industries of America (PIA) announced today the cancellation of the 2020 Continuous Improvement Conference scheduled for April 5–8 in Columbus, Ohio, due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The drupa trade fair scheduled for 16-26 June 2020 will be postponed to 20-30 April 2021. In doing so, Messe Düsseldorf is following the recommendation of the crisis management team of the German Federal Government to take into account the principles of the Robert Koch Institute when assessing the risk of major events. Based on this recommendation and the recent significant increase in the number of people infected with the new corona virus (SARS-CoV-2), including in Europe, Messe Düsseldorf has reassessed the situation. In addition, there is the general ruling issued by the city of Düsseldorf on 11 March 2020, in which major events with more than 1,000 participants present at the same time are generally prohibited.

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