War in the Ukraine, the growing shipping crisis, and the lingering impact of Covid, have conspired to force the organisers of Labelexpo, due to run next month in Brussels, to reschedule the event to next year.

Label printer MCC came top of the awards table at the FPLMA evening event, bagging half a dozen awards including Best in Show Labels for its White Rabbit Jabberwocky Gin label.

Sydney-based packaging and labelling specialist Luminar has expanded its digital printing operations with the deployment of a Screen L350UV Inkjet Series digital press.

Xeikon is launching its LCU Label Converting Units series, specifically developed and designed for the converting industries in high-end label production and manufacturing.

Some 600 exhibitors have confirmed their presence at the world’s largest event for the label and package printing industry, Labelexpo, which will take place at the end of April, in its traditional Brussels location.

Australian and SE Asia label printing business QLM has acquired Melbourne based label printer Elna Press, and will move its Victorian operations into the Elna factory in Moorabbin.

The self-adhesive label market will see a CAGR of 5.4 per cent between now and 2026, translating into a market that will be 30 per cent bigger, with the Asia Pacific region seeing the biggest growth of all.

The team that brought to life the Share a Coke individual name campaign, Labeltopia, has a created a new promotion in time for summer, using variable data digital printing for personalised VB bottles.

Konica Minolta has partnered with Grafisk Maskinfabrik, to offer its ultra-compact DC350Nano and DC330Mini label finishers with its AccurioLabel 230 digital label press to ANZ printers.

Labelstock supplier Avery Dennison's emissions reduction targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as consistent with levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

National narrow web print provider, Onpack, has enhanced its digital operations by upgrading to the the Screen L350UV SAI Inkjet Series automated label production system.

PDQ Labels has made its first move into digital printing, installing a Screen L350UV inkjet press from Jet Technologies, and seeing its turnaround times go from two weeks to two days as a result.

As print deals with increasing environmental concern, the local label printing industry grappled with sustainability of labels in printing and converting, at a well-attended AIP FPLMA webinar on the topic.

Label printers working for the wine sector are raising the glasses in expectations of bumper orders, following a record-breaking year on the vines, which saw two million tonnes of grapes crushed for the first time.

Just a week after it instigated the purchase of the ANZ Hexagon labels businesses for $381m, the world’s biggest label printer, MCC, has itself been sold, and will be rolled into a giant new operation.

The fourth Xeikon Café TV dedicated to the Australian and New Zealand markets runs next Tuesday, 13 July, this one on matching colours with other technologies.