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Shanghai, November 2011ContiTech demonstrates its printing blanket expertise • Impressive, climate-friendly solutions • 100 year anniversary of printing blanket production

ContiTech Printing Blanket Shanghai Ltd. is demonstrating its comprehensive expertise for offset printing at the fourth All in Print China (November 14 to 17, 2011). At booth A109 in hall E3, the company, which maintains a service location in Chuansha Economic Park in Shanghai, is featuring solutions from the CONTI-AIR® printing blanket range that enjoys success around the world. It includes the CONTI-AIR® LITHO-HC, an all-round printing blanket for the sheet-fed printing with outstanding smash resistance.

“The All in Print China is an important fair for the printing industry in the Asian region. As a leading manufacturer of printing blankets, it goes without saying that we present our products at this fair,” says David Dai, who has marketed CONTI-AIR® printing blankets for years as ContiTech’s area manager in the region. “The CONTI-AIR® brand and ContiTech’s service have a very good reputation here. We want to bolster our position even further.”

Climate-neutral printing blankets
ContiTech Elastomer Coatings carries its climate-neutral printing blankets in the full CONTI-AIR® HC line-up under the PURE PRINTING label. “These printing blankets improve the printing process’s carbon footprint and easily satisfy our customers’ ever more pressing ecological demands,” says Dr. Thomas Perković, head of the printing blanket segment at ContiTech Elastomer Coatings. “By assuming a climate-neutral stance, we have bolstered our leadership position in the printing blanket domain in terms of innovative environment and climate protection solutions, and are proud to be the world’s first manufacturer marketing climate-neutral printing blankets." ContiTech is thus able to contribute substantially to environmentally sound printing at no extra cost to its customers.

100 years of printing blankets from ContiTech
With trail-blazing processes and a research and development ever geared to the future, ContiTech has shaped the printing blanket branch for a century.Whether with the development of the first rubber printing blanket in 1911, the trail-blazing expansion process for compressible printing blankets (registered for a patent in 1961), the debut of the CONTI-AIR® brand in 1969 or the world's first ever climate-neutral printing blankets in 2010 – printing blankets from ContiTech have continually and sustainably established themselves on the world market.