Warming up for Hunkeler Innovationdays, your INKISH team traveled to Telfort, outside Birmingham, in the UK. A surprisingly large Ricoh facility here hosts its Customer Experience Center or CEC. Tim Taylor has worked with Inkjet for years, and it was a great pleasure talking to him all day about hardware, software, the market, and applications. One of the films that came out of this was warming up for #HID25, and here we are. Enjoy!
Entering the production floor at August Faller is a fantastic experience. The floor is utilized to its max, but the mix of technology makes the company stand out. Web-offset, digital inkjet, folding equipment, and robots enable August Faller to produce pharma leaflets to perfection. Pharma is a zero-error industry, and seeing how the flow of a production seamlessly integrates from one segment to the next is excellent. August Faller has invested in Screen technology (color and monochrome), and the choice was for August Faller to be easy as they needed the offset look and feel to move between technologies without going through tedious approval processes. They needed printers that could print on thin paper, and the more they looked into the options, the more obvious Screen's solutions ticked the boxes. The machines print roll-to-roll and hereafter get folded in a combination of Hunkeler and GUK equipment. Camera inspection and automatic rejection of anything that doesn't comply with the SLA are just a few of the things that make this amazing. With Tilmann Wild and Ralf Kutschera, you also feel very safe as these two gentlemen seem to have things very much under control - whau - this was a fantastic opportunity for INKISH to see and learn - and hopefully you will enjoy the film and learn as well!
When you arrive in Lucerne on February 24th and enter one of the three halls, you will be pleasantly surprised about how much technology you'll find. Hundreds of people have worked behind the scenes in weeks before #HID25 to set up machines, get power, connect the machines, and prepare everything for four days that intends to create an interest in the newest and latest technology. Today, INKISH got the chance to take a look behind the scenes together with the Head of Marketing, Matthias Annaheim - so here we go :-)
Order one of the market's most advanced Koenig & Bauer presses - check. Order two of the most advanced Eagle systems in the market - check. Create stunning (and we are NOT exaggerating) trading cards using cast & cure, cold foil, and multiple offset printing options - and we are at Carlson Print Group in Minnesota. We didn't see secret areas, but we saw unbelievable samples and met dedicated staff. Staff that have the chance to work with the planet's coolest technology along with the coolest print applications you can imagine. This was a very special one. Thank you, Mike King and Ellen Manning, for bringing us to Carlson Print Group, where we met with Darren Carlson and Rodney Franson. WHAU.
Gee Ranasinha is one of the best communicators in the industry, and you may know him from the short and precise videos he delivers on LinkedIn every Tuesday and Friday. They are essentially free learning about human behavior, how you manage your marketing, and advice about what to do and what not to do. We reached out to Ranasinha and asked him to speak at the NON-EVENT 2024 and this became one of the most recognized and spoken about presentations at the event, and now we are ready to share it with you. Enjoy. Remember to follow Gee Ranasinha on LinkedIn.
In this talk, Golan Landsberg shares how his dual roles—leading R&D at HP Indigo and serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Israeli Army’s Search and Rescue Unit—shape his perspective on teamwork, crisis response, and conflict resolution. Drawing on firsthand experience from global earthquake missions, including rescue efforts in Turkey, he illustrates how disasters transcend politics and can momentarily bridge deep-rooted conflicts between nations. He highlights the intensity of field rescues: racing against time, working in harsh environments, and making impossible decisions to save lives. These challenges reveal universal lessons that also guide innovation in his professional life: the importance of a clear mission (“knowing your North Star”), the necessity of perseverance, timing, adaptability, and the power of dedicated teams. He compares the urgency and improvisation needed to rescue survivors from beneath rubble with bringing cutting-edge products to market under tight deadlines. Ultimately, the talk suggests that just as saving strangers in foreign lands can temporarily heal tensions, applying the same resilience, empathy, and problem-solving in our personal and professional spheres can create opportunities for understanding and progress.
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