2025

EVENT	WHEN	WHERE	WHAT	WWW
ESMA Academy: Inkjet for Plastics	31 March – 3 April	Selb, Germany	Flexible and rigid packaging, food and beverage containers, personal and home care tubes but also automotive or aircraft surfaces, household appliances, toys, laminates and panels, industrial coding and marking… Through years of evolution and innovation inkjet printing has become a trusted decoration technology for various types of plastics. ESMA Academy explains and reviews inkjet’s strengths such as sustainable output, personalisation and differentiation capabilities, productivity, precision and quality. We discuss the current limits of the technology and dive deep into considerations around pre-treatment methods, ink formulations, print system architecture and colour management.	esma.com/academy-plastics/
ESMA Academy: Sustainable Textile Printing	13-15 May	Online	The course prepared in cooperation with German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF) focuses on efficiency, quality and sustainability at all stages of inkjet printing on textile substrates.	esma.com/academy-tex
Screen Print Innovations	3-5 June	Essen, Germany	The brand-new SPI show builds a new home for all industrial, functional and textile market applications where screen technology leads and innovates. We welcome screen print suppliers and users of the process: print system developers, ink and other consumables producers, integrators, distributors, value-added resellers, print manufacturers and finally, product owners.	spi-europe.com
K	8-15 October	Düsseldorf, Germany	The world’s no. 1 trade fair for plastics and rubber features an ESMA member pavilion for plastics decoration. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book your pavilion space.	k-online.com
ESMA Academy: Functional Printing	4-6 November	Bremen, Germany	Organised at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials, this lab-based course focuses on functional printing of electrically conductive structures. Experienced tutors explain and guide participants in screen printing process and required materials.	esma.com/academy-functional
Industrial Print Integration	12-13 November	Düsseldorf, Germany	The 4th edition of our flagshop event for inkjet and other printing processes in various industrial applications.	ipi-conference.com