Konica Minolta has been named an 'Employer of Choice for Gender Equality' by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for the second year running. It is among 120 companies to receive the honour for 2017-18, up from 106 last year.

ASX-listed packaging companies Pact Group and Pro-Pac both recorded healthy increases in sales revenues in the first half of the financial year.

News media readership in Australia grew by 2% in 2017 for the second consecutive year as social media usage declined, according to media lobby group NewsMediaWorks. 

Avery Dennison rolled out four new pastel colours of Supreme Wrapping Film for car installers and enthusiasts that celebrate “the vintage beauty of American muscle cars."

Industrial action at Australian Paper’s envelope manufacturing facility at Preston in Melbourne has entered its sixth week as 87 striking workers await a decision by the full bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC).

The latest issue of Print21 magazine features a three-page profile on Craig Nethercott, the new MD of Océ Oceania, plus extensive coverage of EFI's Connect 2018 conference, in-depth features on automation and direct mail, a visit to Heidelberg in Germany, and more.

Printing Industries CEO Andrew Macaulay has told ABC TV’s Q&A that the skyrocketing cost of electricity and gas prices is crippling manufacturing in Australia and already costing jobs.

One of the largest gatherings of HP Indigo print service providers (PSP) is spending three days in a deep dive into the company’s extensive digital printing portfolio at the company’s Israeli manufacturing and research site.

Xerox has launched a PR campaign to support its proposed $US6 billion Fuji Xerox joint venture with Fujifilm, in the face of legal action by major shareholder Darwin Deason to block the deal.

Ball & Doggett has expanded its Display & Visual division, after reporting a month-on-month growth since the August 2017 merger of BJ Ball and K.W. Doggett.

Print DNA's Chloe Rudd has won another apprenticeship award and been announced the Riverland and Mallee Vocational Award recipient for 2017.

A new ISO standard developed in conjunction with Ricoh is intended for use in digital printing systems running a single job over a long time period, so it’s particularly relevant for book and transactional printing systems, writes Laurel Brunner.

A fall in magazine and newspaper volumes has led to an earnings downgrade by the region’s largest printing company. PMP’s revised guidance for FY18 is now $40m-$45m EBITDA, down from an earlier estimate of $70m-$75m.

Akira Yoshida has been appointed managing director of Canon Oceania, and will take up the position when current MD Yusuke Mizoguchi leaves for Europe in April. Warren Hinder and Steve Peck have departed amicably from Fujifilm Australia.

Graffica will install a 'game-changing' corrugated box maker at a Sydney packaging plant in May. The BCS Autobox is capable of producing short runs of fully formed and digitally printed corrugated boxes with only 60 seconds of setup time.

Flint Group has announced a new dual-cure UV LED ink system for shrink sleeves, which will arrive in Australia and New Zealand in a few months pending compliance information. The EkoCure XS flexo ink series is suitable for high printing speeds, and will offer the full Pantone range plus opaque white.