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.

The suits were unimpressed with packaging giant Amcor achieving a 3.1 per cent increase in its half year EBIT over the same time last year, on sales that slipped by 3.8 per cent in the six months to December, punishing its share price.

Digital textiles printing solutions developer Kornit Digital saw sales shoot up by 39 per cent in 2019, achieving record figures, as the move to digital fabric printing gathers pace.

The rapid growth of digital textile printing will see the drupa launch of Touchpoint Textile, a new special show for digital textile printing applications, in Hall 4 of June’s giant show, complete with micro digital textile factory.

The team at Soar Print is supporting the Waste-Not Kitchen by printing their soup packaging for free.

Roland DG has started to schedule service runs to fire-affected regions across Australia. The runs will occur throughout this month.

Mimaki has introduced a new hybrid digital textile printer, the Tx300P-1800 MkII. It enables both direct-to-textile and transfer printing, with interchangeable platens and three different ink combinations – providing flexibility in a single system.

Two Epson large-format products, the SureColor SC-P7500 and the SureColor SC-P9500 series, have been named iF Design Award 2020 winners by iF International Forum Design.

Consolidation in print has been a fact of life for many years now, and while it can be tragic for its many victims and their families, it is not all bad for the industry, writes print environmentalist Laurel Brunner.

Avon Graphics is buying the assets and business of troubled laminating outfit Protectaprint, which went into administration at the back end of last year.