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Screen Print Innovations

3-5 June 2025, Messe Essen

Reconnecting the screen community

Innovation Theatre

At SPI, the world’s leading suppliers of screen technology showcase their latest advancements in human-machine interfaces, sensitive surfaces, automotive components, household appliances, medical devices, and packaging solutions for plastics and glass.

Visitors have also the opportunity to tingle their creativity by attending the complimentary “Innovation Theatre”, open to all SPI attendees. This dynamic forum features technology users — including printers and brand owners — sharing insights on how screen processes are applied in specific market sectors.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend presentations by an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers.

Learn of exciting uses for screen both today as well as for future oriented applications; how other uses can stimulate your own process developments.

Would you also like to talk about your product innovation achieved with screen printing? Please contact us with your presentation idea at mb@esma.com

Below are the first confirmed titles:

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ABSTRACT

SPEAKER

Screen printing in the next generation of 5G and 6G antennas

Screen Printing is very versatile and can reproduce electronics in the nanometer to micrometer scale. Using this versatility screen printing enables transparent conductive patterns for the next generation of 5G and 6G antennas.

Sebastian Gepp, Kundisch

New frontier: Integrating security into raster printing

The ScreenX raster process enables the integration of logos, characters, or individual symbols as raster dots in the single or multi-color separation process of raster printing. By adapting to the underlying motif, the specific and individually defined raster dot, and the RIP parameters, customer-specific, batch-specific, or year-specific print images are created. This precise customization makes the process difficult to replicate due to its high technical complexity, providing an additional layer of security. This technique allows the production of tamper-resistant and flexibly designed print images, making it particularly suitable for security-critical applications. The process represents a technological advancement of conventional raster methods and expands their application spectrum specifically in the field of security printing.

Jan Rother, FM Siebdruck

Application of screen printing for the production of bipolar plates for fuel cells and electrolysers

Screen printing shows its strengths particularly in small quantities, fast processes and the generation of unique selling prepositions (USP). It is precisely that these attributes are also at the forefront in the production of fuel cells and electrolysers, especially at the production of bipolar plates. By implementing screen printing, preliminary products can be manufactured faster and in significantly shorter product development cycles, resulting in products that perform significantly better and as well offer new product properties. In the field of bipolar plates, the focus is particularly on no or very little permeability and high electrical conductivity – two properties that are not necessarily associated with 3D printing. Here they can be realised in the fields of material, process, post-processing and the QA process chain in conjunction with the adaptation of screen printing. This results in applications in the fields of electro-mobility, hydrogen, fuel cells and electrolysis are not (on the first view) necessarily obvious. With these new approaches, Whitecell AG, together with Whitecell Eisenhuth and Whitecell Systems, is achieving a good deal closer to achieve the goal of emission-free green kilometres.

Dr Eric Klemp, Whitecell Eisenhuth

Tailored production with printed electronics: Innovations in elderly care

A key challenge in the development of this medical device, besides ensuring the reliable performance of the sensors, was primarily the cost and scalability of the solution. Printed electronics offer clear advantages over traditional designs of electronic components in this regard. Through additive manufacturing using printing machines, very lightweight, flexible, robust, and cost-efficient electronic components can be produced. Due to their unique properties, they are particularly suitable for use in wearables and medical technology applications. Production on specialised roll-to-roll printing machines enables high-volume manufacturing.

Dr Philip Renners, Witte Technology

Screen Printing - the unrivaled production technique for industrial parts

TBA

Mike Böing-Messing, BÖ-LA Siebdrucktechnik

Screen Print Innovations is organised by ESMA,
the European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association
www.esma.com

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