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- EBDA Members visit MONTI n.v. and XEIKON International b.v. both located in Lier Belgium
Many EBDA members traveled to Lier near Antwerp 22 & 23 September 2011 for a very interesting visit to
> MONTI n.v.
Thursday 22 September in the afternoon (our host was EBDA-member mrs. Karine van der Sluis)
Monti's expansion has resulted in a plant of 22,150 m˛ and a team of enthusiastic and experienced employees. Today, Monti has chosen a new direction, evolving from a printing shop to a specialist in business communication. (www.monti.be)
and to
> XEIKON -also in Lier-
Friday morning 23 September (host: mr. Patrick van Baelen)
A pioneer in digital printing, Xeikon designs, develops and delivers high-end digital colour printing systems for the industrial, document and commercial printing market segments.(www.xeikon.com).
Both of the visits were very successful. A presentation titled "Print is (not) boring" by Eddy Hagen, director of VIGC.be, formed an extra dimension to these informative days.
EBDA welcomes first non-European member: Oriental Press Bahrain and Dubai
Oriental Press was established in Bahrain in 1952 doing commercial printing. It has grown over the years in size and variety of activities to include packaging, security printing, continuous stationary, books and digital printing.
Having plants in Bahrain and Dubai, the Oriental Group Companies exports its printed products (mostly colour books and security printing) to approximately 50 countries around the world.
Oriental Press today is considered as one of the leading printing companies in the Middle East.
Oriental Press intends to cater into the following markets in the near future :
• Direct Mail
• RFID labels
• Transactional and transpromotional products.
Majeed Al Zeera, President ORIENTAL PRESS:
“Going through the vision of EBDA and attending your meeting in Lucerne Switzerland last February gave me the impression of the highly professional standard of your members within the printing industry. I will be honored to join EBDA as a member.”
European Business Document Association Announce New President 
During the last Annual meeting in Luzern, the EBDA board has elected a new president to replace Robert Pierce and EBDA is pleased to announce that Henning Borek has been elected as new president. Henning is CEO of Borek Kommunikation, a data management, variable data printing and logistics company in Braunschweig, Germany.
EBDA is also pleased to welcome Guido Blansjaar as a new board member. Guido is CEO of BL-Blockfabrik AG in Switzerland. The two other board members are Alain Flament (SOLIMP s.a. France), association treasurer and Hans Willems, EBDA secretary.
The new board wants to increase the number of its members and invites all, who are interested to join this international association.
The EBDA Annual meeting offers:
- product/solution case studies
- update on all members’ strategies – what’s new, general direction
- marketplace issues – workshop for discussion of topics notified in advance
- often: combination with visit to factory/manufacturing plant or supplier facility
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The vision of EBDA (European Business Document Association) is to provide a valuable information, communication and networking platform for a small group of selected managers of businesses engaged in informative, transactional and promotional print, both offset/litho and digital , and document related services in Europe. Members of EBDA are active in:
- TransPromo
- Digital Printing
- Business Forms
- Printers with a ‚Print Management‘ Division
- Direct Mail
Registration
If you are interested in attending the Annual Meeting or becoming a member of EBDA please send an e-mail to wiber@home.nl