What are your impressions of the first half of Drupa?

Visitor numbers have been increasing since day two. We have had positive visits and meetings.

 Goss is entering the packaging sector with the Vpak. What’s behind this concept?
For Goss, this is a significant step: we are offering a solution for flexible packaging and carton printing. Web offset is a genuine alternative here, in terms of the print quality, setup time reduction and productivity. The basis of this development is a machine with variable cutting lengths.

How do you see the new sector developing?
It’s becoming a third business pillar for Goss. This won’t happen overnight, but we think the Sunday technology that sets the standards in commercial print, can also increase productivity substantially in the packaging sector.

What else are you exhibiting at drupa in other business sectors?
We are also showing the M600, the world’s most successful 16-page machine; several new innovations, in, for example, roller adjustment technology, and the Goss digital inker that saves ink. And a tower on the 96-page Sunday 5000. It will subsequently be installed at Stark-Druck in Pforz-heim. These machines print over 83,000ppm.

When was your first Drupa?
I think it was 1990.

Which was the most important one for you?
Drupa 2000 was a high point. Sunday technology for newspapers and commercial print was demonstrated then. The 2008 show was very good, but saw the start of the downturn in our markets. This drupa is interesting: there is a discrepancy between enthusiasm and action. There is significant interest in digital, with fantastic solutions. However, much more concrete action is being taken in packaging.