Registrations are now open for the first 2020 HP National Sign & Display Conference, and the associated HP Awards for Excellence, presented by Asga and Fespa Australia.

Western Australian printer Advance Press won Kodak’s Sonora Plate Green Leaf Award for the ANZ region, with Australian Community Media, Blue Star Print NSW, and Hague Australia also winning.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will not oppose the proposed acquisition of Direct Paper by Spicers, clearing the way for the merger between the two paper merchants to be completed by next Friday.

Currie Group label and packaging exec Wayne Quayle was among the 50 global distributors who went to the UK for a week-long training and workshop session with AB Graphic International, during which they were also privy to the new drupa releases.

Press operator Dave Weinart is celebrating his 25th anniversary working at Eastern Press, joining three others – Dave Chaplin, Colin Georgeson, and Sandro Maio – who have all reached the 25-year milestone at the iconic company.

Hexis Australia is to announce a new product during an open-house event at its headquarters in Queensland on 25 February, according to Ian Parsonson, the company's managing director.

Xerox is aiming to woo major HP shareholders with an exclusive dinner, as it continues with its hostile bid for HP – a company nine times its own size.

Awards season in the printing industry is upon us, and there is plenty to gain by entering, writes Robyn Frampton, marketing and communications manager at suppliers association Visual Connections.

Press manufacturer RMGT (formerly Ryobi) will present a cloud-connected smart factory concept at drupa, where the presses, post press, and other processes are all integrated with automated guided vehicles moving the paper around.

BGS Printing has upgraded its finishing capability with investment in new Horizon kit, including a bookletmaker and three-sided trimmer, both supplied by Currie Group.

The owner of press giant manroland Sheetfed GmbH is instigating an aggressive pricing strategy for its Roland offset presses, in a bid to boost sales and keep the factory humming.

Two Sides’ anti-greenwash campaign saw its busiest year in 2019, finding 388 organisations that were using unsubstantiated claims about print and paper’s impact on the environment.

Komori is acquiring the MBO Group, the German company specialising in post-press equipment, it will be "business as usual" in Australia and New Zealand.

PVCA CEO Andrew Macaulay says simple attention to hygene will help stop any spread of the deadly coronavirus in the workplace, based on his experience of Sars and the Bird Flu while working in Asia at the time.

The Real Media Collective is to sponsor the Cannes Young Lions Australia, Marketing category, which calls on young marketing professionals to develop campaigns that include print as a powerful marketing tool in the broader marketing mix.

Recognition WA Expo 2020 is returning to Perth next week, with the organisers saying now is the time to register for the show which exhibits products in the awards, signs, engraving, digital graphics and apparel decoration markets.