ASX-listed packaging business Orora is passing on the funds to its shareholders after selling its Australasian fibre business to Nippon Paper for $1.7bn.

Man Anchor leader Steve Gamble – who is also national sales manager at Bottcher – says there are four great ways we can safeguard our mental health as we navigate our businesses and ourselves through the pandemic.

The PVCA is warning printers to stay alert and make sure their accounts departments never make urgent payments without the verbal authorisation of the boss, following $100,000 being scammed from a print industry business.

Trade label printer Guru Labels is making its marketing collateral available to printers, to help them grow their label service in the Covid era with its high demand for labels.

Digital print systems developer Xeikon is set to broadcast live on Xeikon Café TV specifically for Australia and New Zealand, with live updates on digital label production, and an introduction to the innovative Xeikon CX300 digital label press on the show.

Wide format solutions developer Roland DG is launching its first printer only TrueVis, the VF2-640, which it says takes printers into an “uncharted” colour gamut thanks to the addition of its new green ink.

Press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer will have world-exclusive launches as part of Koenig & Bauer Live, which it is running from 16-25 June, the dates of the now postponed drupa.

The most clicked news story on the Print21 website over the past seven days is Soar Print winning the World Label Award, our report on the Auckland-based business taking out the award for Digital Labels – Wines & Spirits, its entry beating off gold winning competition from around the planet.

Workplace health and safety is a serious obligation for print business owners and managers and has just got more serious with new laws that could see jail time for those who ignore or avoid their responsibilities, writes OH&S consultant Gary Wilcox.

The government's $150,000 instant asset write off has been extended until the end of the year, enabling print businesses to take advantage of the Covid cash-flow benefit for much longer than originally set.

Alon Bar-Shany, the global face of HP Indigo and its long-time general manager, is leaving the company after a quarter of a century, the last 16 as its leader.

Savas Mystakidis will become the new managing director of Heidelberg Australia & New Zealand effective from 1 July, succeeding current director Richard Timson who steps up to the role of Asia Pacific project director.

Packaging equipment giant Bobst is releasing a slew of new equipment, and says a new reality of connectivity, digitalisation, automation, and sustainability are the cornerstones of packaging production.

The main printing awards event in New Zealand will be an online event this year, as organisers decided against running the event that was initially scheduled for 8 May, but postponed in the Covid crisis.

Local printers are invited to join the global international standards for the graphics industry development process, writes Laurel Brunner.

Xeikon is launching into the corrugated printing market with Idera, a new fully integrated digital solutions platform for corrugated packaging converters.