Successful Lean & Green Conference at drupa

Over 80 industry professionals attended the Lean & Green International Environmental Conference at the drupa trade fair, Dusseldorf. The event was jointly organised by the World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) and the PrintCity Alliance.

The conference addressed the economic and environmental benefits of ‘Lean & Green’ as an industry strategy. Lean & Green is an approach that stresses the mutual economic and environmental benefits of lean manufacturing.

Joint WPCF - PrintCity Environmental Conference at drupa 2012

The World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) and the PrintCity Alliance  they will be jointly organising an International Environmental Conference during the 2012 drupa exhibition in Düsseldorf. The full conference programme is available to download.

The Lean & Green International Environmental Conference will focus on the duality of mutual economic and environmental benefits (Lean & Green) as an industry strategy.  

Michael Makin new President of World Print & Communication Forum

At the annual meeting of the World Print & Communication Forum which took place in Chicago on September 15, 2009, Michael Makin was unanimously elected President of WPCF.

He succeeds Chris Sykes, Director of the Printing Industry Federation of South Africa, who had been President since 2003 and who hosted the successful World Print Congress in Cape Town in 2005.