Offset Printing
Third Balkan Print Forum
Wednesday 19. November 2008 - manroland welcomes print experts in Istanbul
The third Balkan Print Forum under the patronage of manroland AG took place on October 23rd at the impressive Rahmi Koc Industrial Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. More than 80 experts and managers from printing federations and companies in Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Turkey attended the Forum.
manroland AG, the patron of the Balkan Print Forum, BASEV, the Printing Industry Educational Foundation of Turkey, and MAN Ferrostaal A.S., Turkey hosted the third Balkan Print Forum. The main targets of the event are to share experiences and know-how, to initiate and intensify contacts, and to support joint projects in the Balkan region. Speakers from manroland AG, Intergraf and some Turkish companies made their presentations at the Forum under the event motto “Development of the European Printing Industry and New Chances and Challenges for the Balkan Region”.
Visiting manroland customers in Istanbul
On October 24th the foreign guests had the opportunity to visit the Dogan Printing Center in Istanbul. Hamil Aln?aç?k, general manager of the facility, personally welcomed the colleagues from the Balkan Print Forum. With a floor area of 17,000 square meters, the modern newspaper printing center is the biggest in Turkey. Here two identical COLORMAN presses from manroland produce the Hürriyet plus eight more newspapers. The facility operates 365 days a year with a daily output of about 2.5 million copies. The daily paper consumption is around 400 tonnes. At the Gül Matbaacilik printing company which specializes in food packaging, the visitors were able to see two ROLAND 900 presses, a five-color and a six-color, in production.
The Balkan Print Forum initiative development
Initiators of the Balkan Print Forum are manroland and the Bulgarian Printing Industry Federation. Since drupa 2008 the number of member countries participating in the Balkan Print Forum has grown to eleven: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey.