Successful WPE 2018
manroland Goss web systems, the company recently established by the merger of manroland web systems and Goss International, proudly looks back at a successful World Publishing Expo 2018 (WPE) in Berlin: “We are pleased to announce a successful show, with many interesting and promising customer discussions. Our participation in WPE 2018 was a great success,” Alexander Wassermann, CEO of manroland Goss declared.
What does the industry need today? What does modern newspaper production look like? And what does automation mean for newspaper printers? These questions were raised and fully addressed by manroland Goss in their invitation to the largest newspaper printing fair in the world in Berlin from October 9 to 11, 2018. In addition to having the best and largest portfolio of new presses in the world, and an unbeatable worldwide service network made stronger through the recent merger, manroland Goss presented itself as the automation partner for the printing industry. Comprehensive retrofit solutions and upgrades for longer life cycles of print operations, more productivity, and better quality of the existing machinery were introduced.
Innovative customers also appreciated the promising automation concept Maintellisense. “Whereas other manufacturers still dream of predictive maintenance, we have already taken first steps for its implementation in the portfolio and presented them at WPE 2018,” Wassermann explains. Automated maintenance programs were of great interest to numerous companies at WPE and confirmed that manroland Goss is the high-performance business partner for the printing industry.
“We are very happy about our success at WPE and look to the future with confidence. Our products and innovations will sustainably promote the printing industry, particularly in web printing,” Wassermann concludes.