Gallus has celebrated its 100 year anniversary by opening its new Gallus Experience Center, and launching Converting on its Gallus One digital press, as part of the company’s Gallus Experience Days.

Jason Brown is the new managing director at Label Line, taking the reins at the 24-year-old Bayswater-based business, which specialises in supplying self-adhesive blank labels.

Unimax has become the first label and packaging printer in New Zealand to install the new Screen L350UV SAI Inkjet Press, as it upgrades from its original L350UV.

Label giant CCL is launching a new online ordering platform, which it says will provide a personalised experience for its customers, and drive increased conversions, retention and value.

The successful collaboration between digital pouch and label printer Luminar, now part of the QLM Group, and food start-up Mingle, is continuing with Luminar printing the newly rebranded packaging.

Label printers will need to pack their boardies and sunnies for future Labelexpo events, the global show is moving to Barcelona, with this September’s event set to be the last-ever in Brussels.

Leading trade label printing house Foxcil has ceased all production, bringing down the curtain on what was one of the country’s most innovative print business, after a ten-year pioneering run. Its customers and general manager are now with Guru Labels.

Digital print pioneer Xeikon is launching a new entry-level UV inkjet label press, the Label Discovery Panther, which it says will be profitable if it runs for just two hours a day.

WA print business Footprint has produced a quarter of a million labels in the first 10 weeks of its new label operation, produced on its new Epson SurePress L-4533AW, supplied by Fujifilm.

Print service provider and self-described print geek Leon Wilson, from Ballarat based Revolution Print, lit up LIVE with an inspiring story of transforming the general offset jobbing printer into a technologically advanced set-up, now including inhouse digital label printing.

Label printing business Prestige Labels & Print has been placed into voluntary liquidation by owner Gary Weinberg, owing $151,000 to creditors, most of whom are other label printers, but the company has nothing in the bucket for them to claim against, with zero assets or funds.

How do you make yourself known as a new brand in a crowded market? This case study on decorative label design finishing in the beverage industry shows one way.

Xeikon has launched its PantherCure LED series, a family of inks for use with Panther technology which come with new waveforms, software and optimised screening.

Melbourne-based GMS Pacific has been named Australian distributor for the N730i digital colour label press by Domino Digital Printing Solutions.

Screen GP has introduced a new high opacity white mode that it says offers more opaque white for the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S, its specialised UV inkjet label printing system.

As the public become increasingly environmentally aware, all aspects of packaging are under scrutiny, including labels, reports Colleen Bate.