Print businesses eyeing the packaging sector will want to attend Print21+PKN LIVE on 9 November, bringing together brand owners and printers to explore how digital packaging print solutions can drive demand.

Avery Dennison yesterday marked the official opening of its new purpose-built distribution centre in Moorabbin, which showcases sustainable building design and the company’s graphic arts expertise.

Print21's resident legal eagle Wal Abramowicz outlines the legislation regarding the supply of goods and services that may be defective.

The return of skilled migration and the 20% increase in numbers is being welcomed by the print industry, with the PVCA saying it could prove helpful to print businesses struggling with staff shortages.

The newly merged print industry association, PVCA, is calling on the government to match its new commitment to fee-free TAFE places for apprentices with a programme to repair TAFE funding.

Naidoc Week was celebrated at E-Bisglobal with over 90 attendees at their head office in Tuggerah NSW, with the site set up with both the Australian and Aboriginal flags, and a stage for entertainment.

Ruth Cobb, CEO of PrintNZ, reflects on what really matters in business, as Covid restrictions recede, and we all get back to the person-to person contact we took for granted prior to 2020.

In what may be seen as an apt subject given what the printing industry has been through in the past few years, the 2022 drupa prize has been awarded for thesis on Frankenstein.

The merger between the industry’s big two associations PVCA and TRMC is complete, with a new board appointed, which has IVE CEO Matt Aitken as the first president of the new ‘superbody’.

Agfa has sold its Offset Solutions division to Aurelius, a Luxembourg-based investment group, for €92m, but there will be no change to Australian customers, with the local Agfa business continuing to supply and support the products.

Despite ongoing claims to the contrary, print is inherently environmentally friendly, with unrivalled levels of recyclability, and is the preferred form of communication for many in society, from the young to the old.

Printers, retailers, brands and agencies gathered in Melbourne and Sydney for the launch of the Industry Insights Report by TRMC, which revealed that print and digital work best together.

Industry suppliers association Visual Connections is hosting its annual members Golf Day again, this year taking place on Tuesday 30 August, at Pennant Hills Golf Club.

As mail monopoly Australia Post continues to pivot to parcels, printers and mailing houses are dealing with the reality that neither the board of non-exec directors, nor the Stakeholder Council, contain anyone with any commercial mail or print background.

Jet Technologies is opening a new warehouse in Victoria, which is triple the size of its existing premises, as the company ramps up its local stockholdings.

A year ago Steve Gamble moved on from his role as Böttcher's national sales manager to work full-time for mental health advocacy group Man Anchor. Print21 editor Wayne Robinson caught up with him.