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GCC/LEVANT/AFRICA NEWS

Strengthening Dubai’s LEAP23 in Saudi
Arabia

publishing sector Riyadh hosted LEAP 2023,

the 2nd-edition of the world’s
most visionary technology
Dubai Chamber of they help us gain more event, from 6-9 February,
Commerce, one of the three knowledge and insight to 2023, at the strategically-
chambers operating under navigate the changing busi- located Riyadh Front
Dubai Chambers, has ness landscape.” Exhibition & Conference
launched the Printing & Fellow founding member Centre (RFECC), featuring a
Publishing business group to Roger Nicodeme, General series of new investment and
boost the sector’s competi- Manager at Heidelberg, funding programmes to
tiveness and support its added, “The establishment of accelerate Saudi Arabia’s
members in navigating a rap- this business group comes at multiple-field digital trans-
idly evolving media land- the right time. Although we formation.
scape. now live in an era that is digi- Co-organised by the Saudi
Commenting on the set- tal-first, there is still strong Federation for
ting up of this business Maha AlGargawi, Exe. Dir. of Business Advocacy at Dubai Chambers demand for print publica- Cybersecurity, Programming
group, Maha AlGargawi, tant for businesses within the emirate.” tions and print for packaging, and Drones (SAFCSP) with
Executive Director of printing and publishing sec- Founding member, and as a sector, we need to tahaluf – a strategic joint ven-
Business Advocacy at Dubai tor to collaborate in address- Lakshmanan Ganapathy, evolve to cater to changing ture co-owned by Informa
Chambers, said, “As the ing industry challenges. This General Manager of Al needs of our customers. I PLC and SAFCSP – LEAP23
world transitions to a digital- business group will play an Ghurair Printing & look forward to having criti- displayed transformational
first economy—particularly instrumental role in promot- Publishing, said, “I am hon- cal discussions with fellow talent, a product showcase of
post Covid-19—people now ing and supporting the sec- oured to have supported the members of the group to advanced and generative
consume information tor’s growth and is a key setting up of this business come up with ideas on how as technology potential, and a
through digital channels. component of our business group and am very excited to a business sector we can celebrity cast of government
There is no doubt that the community as it contributes connect and collaborate with remain instrumental to the policy-making leaders, busi-
demand for print remains to advancing commercial and my peers. Initiatives such as economic growth of Dubai ness magnates, musical
strong. It is however impor- investment activity in the these are very important as and the UAE.” icons, etc.
SGI Dubai 2023 invites Car Wrapping with

exhibitors from across globe Mimaki

With advancements in
The printing and signage digital printing, Mimaki’s lat-
industry has seen rapid est UV curable inks offer car
growth in the Middle East wrappers a revolutionary
and Africa region over the new way to upgrade your
past decade, driven by a ride. As experts in roll-to-roll
booming population and and flatbed printing and with
expanding economies. As an extensive portfolio of UV
the region continues to printers, Mimaki embraced Mimaki’s LUS-170, LUS-190 inks
develop, the demand for this challenge, and their R&D
high-quality printing and department made it their bined with one of Mimaki’s
UV roll-to-roll printers,
signage services is only set The 26th edition of is packed with innovative products and solutions goal to be the first to make which cure the ink as part of
to increase. Dubai show, stated that, spaces, and hospitality estab- these UV curable inks appli- the printing process, they
Exhibitors can reach out “One of the main drivers of lishments. All of these cable to wrapping. found that the end-to-end
to the SGI Dubai team by growth in the printing and require high-quality signage Thanks to Mimaki’s LUS- process was significantly
writing to sgidubai@ signage industry in the and printing services to 170 and LUS-190 inks, devel- faster when compared with
iecdubai.com for booking Middle East and Africa is the attract customers and create oped for the decorating conventional methods. With
their strategic booths. The rapid urbanization of the a strong brand image.” world, Mimaki is demon- extreme flexibility and mate-
26th edition of the leading region. With more and more SGI Dubai 2023 will also strating not only that these rial adhesion, the LUS inks
UV inks are more than suita-
B2B exhibition is packed people moving to cities and focus on emerging technolo- ble for car wrapping, but that can achieve high detail accu-
with innovative products the demand for infrastruc- gies such as, artificial intelli- the results far exceeded those racy and precision levels.
and solutions. ture and services growing, gence technologies, robotics of the conventional methods, Mimaki’s UV inks is easy to
Sharif Rahman, CEO, IEC, there has been a surge in con- and 3D printing, the organis- both in terms of quality and perform, unlike previous
the organisers of the SGI struction projects, retail ers informed. performance. When com- methods.

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