Durst has joined the new Digital Printing Association (DIPA). The association unifies experts of all the process steps of industrial surface design by using digital printing with companies that already use this technology successfully. The association’s technology partners want to provide access to digital printing to companies that deal with surface design.
Surface design is playing an increasingly importance for the interior fitting, furniture, flooring and related industries, as the demand for individual and premium surfaces is steadily increasing. Innovative manufacturers and users of the industry have now reacted to this by launching the association.
Besides Durst Phototechnik AG and the HOMAG Group, a leading provider of integrated solutions for production in the woodworking industry and woodworking shops, the founding members of the new association are: MB Digitalprint GmbH & Co. KG, user and producer of digitally printed surfaces for furniture manufacturing and interior fitting; Li&Co AG, user and producer of digitally printed flooring; and Adler-Werk Lackfabrik Johann Berghofer GmbH & Co KG, an Austrian paint supplier offering primers and topcoats for digitally printed surfaces.
The main goal of DIPA is to make digital printing an innovative process available to manufacturers of the above-mentioned industries. In the long term it is planned to transfer DIPA into a registered association. It is intended to be open to all interested companies as a non-profit organisation – subject to all preliminary legal reviews. On July 11, 2019, DIPA will host a symposium in Brixen/South Tirol, where interested parties can learn more about the successful use of digital printing.
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