Web press giants Manroland Web Systems and Goss International are now one business, with the successful completion of their merger just taking place. The new combined company will operate under the brand name Manroland Goss Web Systems.

Global press manufacturer KBA is looking to packaging to drive its growth, as its latest figures show sales slipped by five per cent while profit slumped by 50 per cent in the first half of this year.

Revenue from its in-house print provider Cactus Imaging continued to grow, demonstrating, says the company, its value to the group. The company bought Cactus – founded by Warwick Spicer and Keith Ferrel in 1992 – from Opus Group two years ago for $6.1m.

Workers at the Reserve Bank’s banknote printing business Note Printing Australia (NPA) have ended their industrial action and voted to accept a 2.5% pay increase after the company threatened an "indefinite lockout,” according to the AMWU.

Packaging manufacturer Pact Group, chaired by billionaire Raphael Geminder, suffered a sharp drop in its share price after posting an 18% fall in profit despite a 13% rise in revenue for the year ending June 2018. Pact's energy costs jumped 40% in the second half of the year.

Metro newspapers suffering massive drops since advent of GFC, digital uptake surges. The country's biggest selling newsprint paper remains The Sunday Telegraph in Sydney with print sales of 334,209.

Industry veteran installed as new editor for Australian print industry's biggest media. As the new editor of Print21, Robinson continues his decades long engagement with the Australian and New Zealand printing and graphic arts industry.

While automation and speed are making offset printing more productive, they’re also throwing up fresh challenges. Mitchell ‘Mitch’ Mulligan has been at the helm of industry supplier Böttcher Australia since its founding 20 years ago.

Renowned research agency Smithers Pira predicts inkjet to impact on offset and increase applications in usage boost

Melbourne launch for latest HP rigid printing technology. he R series is the first Latex printer to print on rigid media, and it also prints flexibles. Rigid substrates include foamboards, PVC cardboard, fluted polypropylene, solid plastics, aluminum, wood, and glass.

Two of this year's Women in Print breakfast events have just taken place, with the remaining three slated for next week. This year’s guest speaker is Amna Karra-Hassan, an activist and advocate for diversity, inclusion and gender parity. At the events she is addressing the role of gender in leadership and how women working in the print industry can benefit from this understanding.

Industry technology supplier sees strong sales and forward orders while profits dip. Sales growth was mainly driven by a high backlog at the beginning of the year and an overall good level of activity in all three Business Units. Volume and price variances had a positive impact of 14.5 per cent.

The PIAA has slammed the federal government's proposed national energy guarantee (NEG) as a debacle which will do nothing to alleviate the ongoing energy crisis. Andrew Macaulay, CEO, wants the government to invest in dispatchable energy, power that is affordable and reliable.

Print broker McDonald Group has been quick to secure the client list of established Gold Coast trade printer Goode Continuous Printing, which went into liquidation this week after more than 30 years in business.

Printers from around Australia flew into Melbourne last week for an exclusive Konica Minolta innovators event on Thursday, August 9, capped off by a visit to Revolution Print in Ballarat.

Fairfax Media posted a net loss after tax of $63.8 million for the 2018 financial year, compared to a net profit of $84 million the previous year, but CEO Greg Hywood says the company is in “good shape” ahead of its proposed buyout by Nine.