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WCPC Annual Conference & Exhibition 2017

13th Annual Technical Conference

Date: Monday 6th – Tuesday 7th November 2017

Venue: Swansea Marriott Hotel, Maritime Quarter, SA1 3SS

Keynote Speaker: Giuseppe Tripaldi – UTECO Group

The conference is an opportunity to view the latest WCPC research in printing technology, to discuss the findings with researchers and to network with like-minded industrial delegates. Each presentation will be a technical paper based on latest results and analysis derived from controlled experiments and numerical models.

This year the conference will be opened by Giuseppe Tripaldi (UTECO Group) with additional speakers Patrick Gane (Omya International AG), Martin Krebs (VARTA Microbattery GmbH) and Paul Meredith (Department of Physics, Swansea University).


The conference is hosted by the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC) in association with icmPrint Ltd.  WCPC is a world renowned research centre dedicated to advancing the understanding and productivity of all aspects of printing and coating. WCPC enhances the understanding of the printing and coating processes, exploits novel manufacturing using printing and applies its scientific findings to the benefit of its global industrial partners.  With extensive experience in packaging and graphics printing the WCPC has built on this knowledge and become a centre for functional materials, plastic electronics and bio printing.