190 industry trainees have signed on the Future Print Apprenticeship Project in the first year of the industry transformation programme. The first apprentices have achieved their first units of competency with many hoping to qualify within the next 18 months to two years.

The youngster from APN Print Ellerslie was praised by judges as being always happy and energetic in his work, fitting in well with all shifts and willing to accept responsibility.

Rejection of a phoenix-like resurrection opens the way for a CMYKhub offer to buy the failed Sydney printer, but there’s no word from the administrator. The ongoing saga took another twist when creditors voted to reject the offer from the family-connected Sureprint.

Currie Group signs off on a brace of Horizon finishing equipment and a new HP Indigo 7600 as Shadi Taleb, powered by Southern Colour’s investment early in the year, prepares to shift his business up a gear.

3rd year apprentice Kiara Sawtell is off to Western Australia this month to represent the signage industry in the building & construction category of the national competition. She qualified for the National competition while serving her apprenticeship at Signarama, Bankstown.

TLC Print Finishing director refutes claims of sharp practice and denies that employees were not paid wages up until the troubled finishing company closed its door. "All my employees were paid for all the work they did up until we ceased trading three or four weeks ago," she said.

Diversification strategy prompts the region’s largest paper merchant to acquire Total Supply, New Zealand’s foremost sign and display supplier. John Greenacre, (pictured) GM Spicers New Zealand, has welcomed the opportunity to develop a larger business from the two separate companies

The directory business of the region's largest printer crashes as volumes dive by 72% while catalogues hold the line. Despite sales revenue falling by 7.8% to $899.2 million and print volumes declining by 9.8%, PMP’s results illustrate the cash generating potential of print.

A new Printing Industries service will cut a workplace health and safety compliance cost for members by allowing them to do electrical test and tagging in-house. Electrical test and tagging is an OHSW responsibility to ensure portable electrical appliances are regularly checked and tested.

An unlikely coalition of business groups and unions is demanding the restoration of ACCC oversight over bulk mail price increases and no change to the monopoly’s community service obligations.

Four years on the troubled Silverwater business is again in hot water as the company is locked out and employees look for alternative employment.

Broadening its range of products and services to the trade, the Melbourne-based print embellishing company picks Vutek and Mimaki to kick start its new venture.

A triumphal tour of the major centres had Snap franchisees cheering for their peers at one of the industry’s most significant award fixtures.

A new Bobst diecutter leads the revamping of packaging equipment at the country’s largest independently owned packaging printer, spilling a wide range of second hand kit onto GraysOnline.

Former CEO, PJ Desai, comes back with a buyout offer too good to refuse for the US-based label and package printing equipment manufacturer. He has the support of the current management who will be part of the purchase

PaperlinX claws its way back towards profitability through a combination of cost cutting and focusing on margins. A statutory loss after tax of A$63.6 million for the year may not seem like good news but it is when compared to the A$92.8 million loss the previous year.