EFI is appointing industry outsider Bill Muir as its new CEO to replace Guy Gecht, who has been in the role for the past 19 years, when he succeeded legendary company founder Efi Arazi.

PMP has added Andrew McMaster to its board, as a non-executive director, replacing Stephen Anstice who left the board earlier in the year.

Xeikon has launched its new QB toner range at Labelexpo in Chicago, which supersedes the QA-I and ICE toners for Xeikon 3000 series and Cheetah digital label presses and is aimed at keeping Xeikon ahead of regulatory changes.

Ad spend in newspapers has increased for the first time in three years, according to the latest figures from the Standard Media Index (SMI), while magazine ads dropped sharply, down by more than a quarter.

The new factory in Staplyton was created in 2014 to capitalise on strong growth Zac Pac had been achieving in the previous three years from an influx of major multinational clients in the food and beverage, personal care, and wine markets.

German finishing solutions supplier MBO is being acquired by Heidelberg, in a move designed to ramp up the press giant's presence in the digital finishing arena.

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.