The longest strike in Finnish papermaking history has been extended, as UPM management and unions remain at loggerheads, crippling output at the €10bn commercial, publication and label manufacturer.

Fespa Australia is extending a welcome invitation to members of the printing industry for its inaugural Sydney Social, which follows on from the annual BBQ event recently held in Melbourne.

The Australian print industry is set to lose tens of millions of dollars a year, thanks to the government’s decision to make the temporary Covid allowance for ASX-listed companies to communicate without print into a permanent statute.

Vista’s Kyiv-based content platforms, Depositphotos and VistaCreate, have launched a free image database of real-time war photos, in a bid to combat Kremlin propaganda.

Entries for the Print Industry Creativity Awards are starting to flow in but, with numerous requests already received for more time, organisers will extend the entry deadline until Monday 21 March.

Some 102 print staff are being locked out of the pressroom at The West Australian newspaper, in a dispute over a new agreement, with casuals now printing the paper, as talks fail to make progress.

The ACCC is joining forces with heavyweight agencies in the US, Canada, the UK and New Zealand, aiming to stamp out anti-competitive behaviour in shipping, which is at the centre of a global supply crisis.

Negotiations over the ongoing strike at papermaker UPM in Finland are breaking down, leading to dire warnings, as the paper giant claims it is the victim of a force majeure.

The first 2022 issue of the nation’s favourite print trade magazine Print21 has been arriving on the desks of print business owners and managers all week.

Some of the biggest industry developers and suppliers have made the exclusive CDP A list, which evaluates environmental activities and progress of businesses for hundreds of institutional investors.

Sustainability is entering business peoples’ consciousnesses in such a way that they are actually investing in it, with the environment slowly rising up the agendas of print service providers and suppliers alike.

The Print & Visual Communications Association is putting the call out for entries in the 2022 State PICAs, with entry for the prestigious awards on a tight time frame – they have to be in by the end of the month.

After a stellar career running print businesses large and small, the former founder and owner of heatset web operation AIW, Peter Clark, is the new president of industry employers group Print & Visual Communication Association.

Struggling NSW print businesses will be able to claim 20 per cent of their payroll, up to a maximum of $5000, but only if they can show turnover in January is down by at least 40 per cent on last year.

The Real Media Collective is forming a national team to raise funds for the homeless, calling on industry members to sleep rough for one night to raise funds for the Vinnie’s CEO Sleepout.

Rita Karagiannis, IVE Group, is the new Victorian Patron of industry association Women in Print, succeeding Kirsten Taylor, Taylor’d Press, who stepped down from the role late last year.