SOMA hosted its SOMA Innovation Day 2025 at the company’s headquarters in Lanskroun, Czech Republic on November 20.
The event was the highlight of SOMA’s Autumn Innovations series, which began at the K 2025 fair in Düsseldorf and continued with a global in-house gathering focused on live demonstrations and expert exchange.
Innovation Day welcomed around 200 industry professionals from all over the world, including printers, converters, and key partners.
Guests learned about SOMA’s newest technologies not only through presentations, but in live production demos and hands-on showcases.
A reported highlight of the day was a live demonstration of Flexo IPU — an intelligent printing unit downstream from a SOMA Optima2 flexo press applying a paper-touch varnish. IPU expands SOMA presses with additional stations to print premium coatings, applied in a single pass. The demonstration showed how converters can produce high-value packaging with effects such as soft touch, tactile finishes, matte coatings, barrier layers, heat-seal varnishes, and more.
