IFRA (publishing)

The IFRA was an international association of companies in the newspaper and media industry, primarily newspaper and media publishing. In 2009 came the merger with the WAN to WAN -IFRA.

IFRA has over 3000 members in more than 70 countries. A composite Board, comprising publishers as well as central, regional and specialized committees direct the association's work. IFRA has ten locations around the world, headquartered in Darmstadt. She looks at herself as a "platform for decision makers from the newspaper industry".

Objectives and Services

The objectives and services include, for example, the development of printing standards to standardize the quality in newspaper printing world. The conference organized by the IFRA international conferences and meetings encourage the exchange within Europe. Monthly they are in four languages ​​( German, English, French and Spanish) published journal newspaper techniques out. Quarterly appears this also in Chinese. The conference, organized by IFRA annually in major European venues IfraExpo is the world's most important trade exhibition for newspaper companies. As host of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club it helps to improve the reproduction and printing quality in daily production at. It also provides the ifrasearch, a special search engine for the printing industry, ready.

History

The IFRA emerged from the merger of two organizations: 1961 was the INCA ( International Newspaper Colour Association) founded by Belgian, German and British publishers. In cooperation with the FIEJ (Fédération Internationale des Uitgevers de Journaux ) INCA FIEJ Research Association was formed. From the abbreviation " IFRA " in 1970 derived which is now used as an independent name.