Family-owned Queensland printer The Print Group has liquidated after ten years in business, with owner Robert Churchley (pictured) blaming a dispute with a supplier.

German bookbinding machinery giant Kolbus Group has taken a big step in its pivot to packaging with its purchase of Autobox, owner of British Converting Solutions (BCS). The buyout adds the range of short-run packaging machinery BCS supplies to the Kolbus stable.

Paper merchant Spicers is selling its Asian operations to Japan Pulp & Paper (JP), the same company that owns Ball & Doggett, its arch rival in Australian and New Zealand.

Printing Industries will connect printers with academics at a breakfast event in Sydney next week, with the aim of helping industry see the opportunities that researchers can offer.

Long-term roller rivals, Terry Brissett and Mitch Mulligan, will join together in a super Smithfield site to ramp up the local manufacturing of graphic arts rollers.

No less than nine state and federal MPs have been sending print to Zion Graphics, a print management company owned by a Liberal branch president, who is also Liberal party donor.

Openbook Howden said that, “Sarah has demonstrated outstanding leadership potential and was awarded this scholarship from the Industry Leaders Fund to develop and expedite the realisation of that leadership potential.”

"PIAA set up the nationally recognised Sustainable Green Print (SGP) programme in 2009, and it has grown to become Australia’s best recognised and widest implemented industry sustainability programme."

When the University of Newcastle needed to line the windows of its art deco University House to hide renovation works, it could have gone for black builders’ film. Instead, the university decided on a solution that would acknowledge the building’s history.

Those involved in the packaging sector, including converters, will benefit from the commercial opportunities built around anti-counterfeit packaging technologies identified in the report.

Innovations by Avery Dennison, Hamillroad Software and RotoMetrics were among the category winners honored at this year’s Label Industry Global Awards, which took place this week at Joe’s Live in Rosemont, Chicago, as part of Labelexpo Americas 2018.

The New Zealand Court of Appeals has knocked back NZME's attempt to buy out Stuff, the New Zealand arm of Fairfax Media. The ruling upholds previous decisions by the New Zealand Commerce Commission and High Court.

Dandenong printer Monet Press has entered voluntary liquidation after more than 50 years in the industry. Jack Rosner (pictured left), who has owned Monet Press since 1990, declined to comment.

ABG, distributed in Australia by Currie Group, is showcasing 14 label finishing solutions with a heavy focus on digital equipment across four booths at Labelexpo in Chicago: its own, plus HP, Domino, and REA's stands. It includes the flagship Digicon Series 3.

Grab Bag – definition: a miscellaneous collection: a potpourri. Welcome to the latest iteration of Graphics Grab Bag, a weekly record of engagements and observations from an observer curious about the printing industry here and around the world.

Visual Connections' partnership with Re-Engineering Australia is introducing school students to the opportunities available in print and graphics careers, with a number of events in the past month raising the profile of print.