For example, in 2024 exports of converting machinery grew by 9.4% compared to the previous year, marking the best performance in the area of machinery for the graphics and packaging industry.

There is now a clear need to give visibility to this product segment, define the sector, and promote technologies that are highly relevant to the Italian manufacturing industry — and our exhibitors will be ready to step up as soon as the gates of the exhibition open. Indeed, many companies in the converting industry have reserved a space at Print4All to present their innovations.

First of all, Bimec, which will announce the development of significant innovations, the result of its R&D department's intensive work over the last few months aimed at further refining the design and functionality of its range of systems. "Our participation at Print4All is a key event to strengthen our relationship with customers and to present our latest technological innovations to the market," said Davide Bottoli, General Manager of Bimec. "We firmly believe that investment in research and development is key to offering increasingly high-performance and sustainable solutions in line with industry demands."

Roberto Maiocchi, Regional Sales Marketing Manager of BST Eltromat Italy said: "Print4All will be an opportunity to showcase our products, our entire portfolio line: from alignment systems with many sensory innovations to inspection and quality control systems, where we will present new calculation algorithms with the help of Artificial Intelligence. We are also optimising some innovations with manufacturing partners regarding special additions for surface control applications, which today represents an important product for our line, also because it is produced in Italy, something we are very proud of as the Italian subsidiary of BST.”

Print4All will also host the first appearance of the FlexCA (Flex-Converting Alliance) with solutions offered under the single brand FlexCa, which sees Bimec, CMG, SmartJet, Utec oe Vision working together for the future of the printing and converting industry. Many revolutionary solutions will be presented at Print4All 2025, such as Active Pack, the patented technology for flexo presses that reduces energy consumption and material waste by up to 50%, the only one ESG certified for Industry 5.0. And OnyxOMNIA, the only FlexoDigital press on the market, which combines central drum flexo with wide-web digital printing for high print runs.

ColorConsulting, a company that offers consultancy for colour and print quality control and optimisation, will be offering - we are told by Sara Robustellini, the company's Sales Coordinator - the products of X-Rite, for which it is the Italian distributor, as well as many other software products for print start-up and ink spreading. 

 "This year we only want to bring our newest proposals to Print4All. We have a number of products that are now standardised and high-performing, but we do not want to show the standard of our production, only our innovations. As BFT Group we supply printing presses with high-tech equipment, which is why we will be demonstrating a new linear feed system with oil stability for central drum presses. For BFT Flexo, on the other hand, the main product will be a miniaturised central drum cleaning system for all machines that do not have space to introduce the cleaning systems already on the market," Alberto Ferrara, Chief Technology Officer of BFT Carbon and BFT Flexo, told us.

Windmöller & Hölscher will not only focus on meeting new and existing customers but will also showcase the company's entire landscape: "We will be exhibiting in cooperation with our partners Garant, which manufactures bagging machines, and Kamf, a manufacturer of cutters with whom we began collaborating in January. We have a host of new proposals to showcase: from digital printing to monomaterial, with an extrusion expert. It will be a great opportunity,' comments Fabio Gonzatto, the company's Area Sales Marketing Manager.

The exhibition therefore promises to be packed with innovations to explore for the world of converters. Last but not least, there will be a special event in the conference area of the WeArePrint4All HUB: on 29 May at 4 p.m. 'Birth of the Converting Group' will be presented, with ACIMGA introducing the association's new specialisation group which, through the action of an initial core group, aims to shine a stronger spotlight on converting.