More than 450 global digital print and signage companies will showcase their latest technology at this year’s sold out FESPA Digital 2016 event in Amsterdam next month. Exhibitors will include Avery Dennison, Canon, EFI, Epson, Fujifilm, Mimaki, Mutoh, Ricoh and Roland DG.

Blue Star Group’s web heatset division Blue Star WEB has become the first commercial printer in the Asia-Pacific to install the Heidelberg Speedmaster XL106-10-P+LX-LEUV colour perfector with coater. A team of engineers installed the 26 metre, 93 tonne machine in Sydney in 28 days.

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Australasia’s leading printer PMP has blamed the collapse of retail chain Dick Smith and customers supplying their own paper for a 58.8 per cent drop in half year profit. PMP booked a $2.7 million impairment charge related to the money it’s owed by Dick Smith into its first half accounts.

APN Outdoor and oOh! Media posted strong results as digital billboards continued to drive the thriving outdoor market. APN Outdoor reported $41m in profit for 2015, with revenue jumping 20% to $300.8m, while oOh! Media delivered $18.4m in profit, with revenue up 7.1% to $280m.

Flint Group has issued an offer to acquire the web offset business of German ink manufacturer Siegwerk, in the latest consolidation deal in the global ink market. Flint, a global supplier to packaging and print media industries, would also acquire Siegwerk’s Heatset and News Ink lines.

Pioneering environmental technology to recycle paper cups is providing new sustainability models serving markets in more than 50 countries. Laurel Brunner reports on an ingenious process being used at James Cropper Paper, a company in established in 1845.

Offset giant seeks to balance its portfolio by introducing new inkjet digital presses for both the packaging and label sectors while expanding its services to the printing industry.

The newest addition to Heroprint’s digital network is up and going in Sydney with excellent results. For the past five years nearly all the digital work coming out of Heroprint has been produced on a Kodak Nexpress.

The PIAA has postponed its Special General Meeting that was scheduled to take place in Sydney on Tuesday. In a brief statement, the association said the meeting had been deferred for 14 days.

Printing Industries has launched a search for its third CEO in eight months and is offering more than a quarter of a million dollars a year. The PIAA hired recruitment firm Investigo to find it’s next chief after the retirement of Bill Healey and the shock resignation of successor Jason Allen.

PIAA president Ross Black, appointed just a couple of weeks ago, has resigned days before a SGM called to address member dissatisfaction over the way the association is being run. Deputy Kieran May will step into the acting president role.

Departing Printing Industries CEO Jason Allen cleaned out his desk at PIAA headquarters at Chatswood in Sydney on Friday and will not be returning. Allen announced his shock resignation just before Christmas and had planned to leave at the end of March.

Organisers extended the closing date for entries in this year’s Media Super National Print Awards but all entries must be received by close of business this Friday, 19 February. The winners will be announced at the 33rd National Print Awards Presentation Dinner in Melbourne on Friday 20 May, 2016.

Consumer watchdog the ACCC has given Australia’s biggest plastic packaging manufacturer Pact Group the go-ahead to acquire NSW plastics manufacturer Power Plastics. Both companies manufacture PET and non-beverage rigid plastic containers in New South Wales.