Interest in UV printing prompted a seminar in Bangkok attended by ten delegates from five Asian newspaper sites and plans for site visits. The evening gathering was arranged under the auspices of South East Asia Newspapers group, which held its inaugural meeting in the city last October. Main speakers were Koen Dehandschutter and Avik Chatterjee from the Singapore office of Belgian UV ink manufacturer Arets. Information and samples from press manufactures, UV systems companies and other ink manufacturesrs was also made available. Conti-Air Asia-Pacific sales and technical manager Stephan Peters – who helped organise the gathering and was the driver behind last year’s SEANG – says the topic of UV innovation in newspapers attracted the interest of a number of production managers. “The result was that there was so much discussion that the presentations started a couple of hours late, and went on afterwards,” he says. “As a result, the group will visit a UV newspaper printing plant and a feasibility study is being organised for one press.” The UV presentations are to be repeated in Malaysia and Indonesia later this year. SEANG holds its second annual conference in Bangkok in November.