FESPA Eurasia 2016 concludes with over whelming response

A global federation of 37 national associations for the screen, digital, and textile printing community, FESPA, has successfully organized its Eurasia region’s exhibition from 8-11 December 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. FESPA Eurasia was a focused exhibition for the wide format digital printing, screen printing, signage and garment decoration markets.

A first time exhibitor at FESPA Eurasia, Alessandro Manes, Managing Director at Aleph SRL said, “This is the first time we’ve exhibited at FESPA Eurasia and we’ve had a great show and sold four machines.”

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The exhibition welcomed 8,232 visitors with total attendance across the four days reaching 9,774 visits, demonstrating the value visitors placed on attending for more than one day. There was an increase in international visitors compared with the previous edition. The top 10 countries attending outside Turkey include Iran, Bulgaria, Algeria, Greece, Tunisia, Jordan, Ukraine, Iraq, Lebanon and Germany.

44 per cent of visitors were final decision makers and 81 per cent of attendees were involved in the decision-making process, highlighting that FESPA Eurasia is a strong ‘buying’ show. It may be noted here that FESPA Eurasia aimed at reinvesting directly back into the regional Eurasia print community by supporting the Turkish print association, ARED and establishing a Eurasia Partner Committee. The partner committee has a focus to structure the reinvestment in activities which raises awareness of print capabilities, educating printers and print buyers, and to push the industry forward.

Michael Ryan, Group Exhibition Manager at FESPA, commented, “FESPA Eurasia 2016 has once again confirmed the value of FESPA’s event content to rapidly developing markets, with positive feedback from both exhibitors and visitors. This exhibition continues to serve the Turkish print community, as well as visitors and exhibitors from the wider region.I was delighted with the positive feedback from our exhibitors with many commenting on the volume of sales directly at the show.International suppliers such as Aleph, Mimaki, EFI and Canon were just a few of the global brands to introduce new products at the show.”