FTA Announces Theme, Venue and Chairs for Forum 2017

Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), producers of the largest annual gathering for the package printing and converting industry — FTA's Annual Forum — has announced that "Trending Now" will be the official theme of the 2017 event. More than 2,000 trend-setters, representing every segment of the supply chain, will attend the event, held from April 30 to May 3 at the Sheraton Grand Phoenix Hotel in downtown Phoenix.

Forum's agenda embraces today's hottest topics and trends. Content will span the gamut on the critical business intelligence that’s trending now — that’s everything from tackling legal and regulatory issues to meeting the challenge of finding qualified press operators; up to and including ample analysis of disruptive technologies. Flexo’s essentials — inks, anilox rolls, substrates, plates and prepress practices, plus statistical process control — will also receive critical attention throughout the technical program.

The sessions are:

• Flexo: Legals, Markets and Logistics
• The “Press Crew” Crisis: Now Who’s Going to Run My Press?
• Disruptive Technologies: Embrace the Possibilities
• It’s All About Ink!
• Let’s All Get RIPed: Practical Prepress
• Pressroom Pressures
• Corrugated
• Not Only How to Use, But How to Choose: Flexo Consumables 101
• Surveying Production Performance: Flexography 102

In addition, the program agenda will offer a complimentary pre-conference session, hosted by the Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC), dubbed #Research!

Program development is being led by Forum Chairs, Paul Teachout, Nilpeter, and Bob Coomes, Plastic Packaging Technologies. Abstract review, speaker selection and session format determination is underway. The ultimate objective: build a stellar educational agenda of what’s trending now for launch in April 2017.

Coinciding with Forum 2017 is the INFO*FLEX Exhibition which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2017. The event takes place May 1-2 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Attendees can anticipate a bustling convention hall occupied by more than 300 of the industry’s top suppliers and their solutions, providing for two days of intensive networking activity and side-by-side comparisons of the latest technologies. More than 85% of the 310 booths have already been sold. Call Jay Kaible, FTA director of business development, at (631)737-6020 or email jkaible@flexography.org to reserve now.

For more information about FTA’s 2017 Annual Forum or its INFO*FLEX Exhibition visit www.flexography.org or contact Eileen Cosma (ecosma@flexography.org), FTA marketing manager at 631-737-6020 ext. 30.

Source: Flexographic Technical Association.