Equipment from closed trade label print shop Foxcil is up for auction, at Grays Online, and running from now until next Wednesday. On-site inspection day in Brookvale is Monday.

Results from the vote on the four office bearers on the PVCA board are in, with the only change seeing Kevin Pidgeon succeeding John Georgantzakos as deputy president.

The Heidelberg/LIA NSW 2023 Graduate of the Year Award has been won by Jervis Tsui from Frontline Print, with the Employers Award presented to Frontline’s business manager Yash DeGamia.

PVCA is calling on all printers to fill out it what it says is the most important survey it has ever created, on Australia Post, to enable it to provide data driven input into the mailing giant’s future plans, by the government's 27 April submission deadline. Link to survey in story.

The nation’s biggest regional newspaper publisher, Australian Community Media, is preparing to sell or close nine more printed newspapers, blaming soaring newsprint costs and fewer advertisers.

Andrea Trumble, marketing manager for Pozitive Sign & Graphics Supplies, has been appointed to the Visual Connections board, replacing HP's Jeremy Brew.

PrintNZ CEO Ruth Cobb says the recent series of disasters in New Zealand clearly show the value of print as an unrivalled communication channel.

The latest issue of the nation’s favourite print business magazine, Print21, is out and arriving on the desks of the owners and managers of print businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

IVE is closing the Mandurah newspaper printing plant it acquired in October 2020 as part of its five-year, $100m deal to print and distribute ACM publications. Last date for printing will be 19 May.

Ball & Doggett is the foundation sponsor support partner for the state’s inaugural Women in Print Breakfast event, with Mercury Walch the Print Partner Sponsor. The association is now calling for industry to get behind the event.

Christine Gardiner from Studio Labels is the 2023 LIA South Australia Graduate of the Year. She was selected from an ‘outstanding’ group of nominees.

Tasmania’s biggest commercial printer Mercury Walch took out the Grand Diemen for Print in the 9th annual Diemen awards in the Apple Isle, which paid tribute to the late Peter Clark.

Angus McGrath, a graduate printer from Note Printing Australia, is the winner of this year’s LIA Victoria Heidelberg Graduate of the Year, from a set of candidates the judges said were difficult to separate.

PVCA held its first Member Mixer, in Brisbane, this week, with similar member networking and industry community events set to take place across the country over the coming months. The Mixer set out priorities for the next six months.

Active Mail has installed its second Konica Minolta AccurioPress C14000 digital colour printer, just six months after its first went in. Full story in Print21 magazine.

Laurel Brunner says print is well suited to lead in the circular economy, highlighting its environmental credentials.