Kathmandu, Feb. 17: Nepal Printers’ Association is to organise the four-day 2nd South Asia congress and exhibition in Bhrikuti Mandap, Kathmandu, beginning March 1. The event is a sequence to the first South Asia Print Congress (SAPC) held in 1996 in India’s New Delhi.

The object of this event is to acquaint the print professionals with the new trends and technologies in print industry and to provide them an opportunity to promote their business, SAPC organising committee’s president Suresh B. Malla told a press conference here this afternoon.

Primarily meant for the benefit of the South Asian print professionals, the event aims at bringing experts and manufactures form all around the world with a view to develop strategies to improve print products.

Expected to be participated in by around 100 firms and over 500 delegates from around the world, the event will feature presentations by about 30 experts from various countries, Malla said.

The event with a theme ‘Print of Tomorrow: Concern of Today’ will also feature talks and interactions on recent trends and technologies in print industry.

Malla said that the event is expected to be visited by about 50,000 Nepalese and about 10,000 foreigners.

Nepal’s Mount Everest Brewery and India’s Scitex/Heidelberg are the main sponsors of the event.