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Drupa 2016 - the legacy lives on

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Drupa 2016 may seem like a distant memory to some people in this industry, but here at Universal the legacy of last year’s Drupa exhibition is still strongly felt.  We met many new people who are now customers, or who are in the process of becoming customers.  Exhibiting at Drupa also gave us the opportunity to spend some time showing existing customers some of our latest technical developments.

Being a part of Drupa was a great opportunity to show off our X6 Slitter Rewinder.  With an estimated attendance of a third of a million people my colleagues who were on the exhibition stand had their work cut out for them.  Over the eleven days of the show we had an overwhelming amount of interest in the machinery we were exhibiting.  In addition to the X6 we also took a RT2 Roll Handling Trolley and a CCA Automatic Core Cutter to Dusseldorf with us.

When potential customers ask when they can see the machinery running it’s great to be able to run it right there on the exhibition stand.  I’m not sure I saw many other exhibitors were were able to run their machines.

Helping design and organise exhibition stands is one of my favourite parts of my job.  I’m already very much looking forward to Drupa 2020.


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