Australian print and packaging systems developer Trimatt had the multi-award winning Colour Star AQ-V on the stand and sold one on the first morning of the show to a print business looking to enter the packaging market.

The Graffica stand is promoting its wide range of packaging solutions, and it had a new series of guillotines on the floor, with models ranging from those for small printshops up to larger operations.

The merger between packaging giants Amcor and Berry is now complete, with the deal creating one of the world's biggest flexo print operations. Amcor also prints offset and digital.

Israeli digital cutting systems developer Highcon has filed for bankruptcy protection, and laid off most of its staff, as it faces liquidity issues and postponed orders, as a result it says of the US tariffs.

The PKN Women in Packaging 2025 programme entries are open until next Friday 11 April, with seven categories for awards available for nomination, including the new STEM Explorer.

Packaging, warehouse and logistics, and finishing are the three top potential growth areas for the nation’s printers, according to the Industry Metrics Survey, that asked which areas printers were diversifying into.

Innovative Australian packaging solutions developer Trimatt has signed a distribution deal in the USA for the first time, with Graph-Tech set to sell the Trimatt CardLine 7000 across the Americas.

The four-week lockout at Opal Paper’s Maryvale Mill is over, as Opal has reached an in-principle agreement with its workers and the CFMEU for a new Enterprise Agreement.

Opal is assuring its packaging grade customers that its contingency plans mean supply will continue without interruption, as the lockout of its 308 workers at the Maryvale Mill enters its fourth week.

Koenig & Bauer Durst has opened a dedicated hall at its lead German press manufacturing facility for its VariJet 106, its new hybrid digital and offset press for folding cartons.

Packaging solutions manufacturer Koenig & Bauer has just held its ‘Post-press Solutions Experience’ for printers at its German factory, showing its end-to-end ecosystem for folding carton print production.

In the latest packaging mega merger, consumer packaging giant Amcor is acquiring US-based Berry Group, for $13bn, which will result in the company having 400 packaging plants around the world.

Bright Print has acquired Morprint, in a strategic move to boost its packaging printing operation, with the Morprint directors Russell and Lynne Morrow now retiring, after a 42-year run.

The Visual Media Association has formed the Labels and Packaging Coalition, a new initiative to provide print industry technical expertise and accuracy into government policy, targets and regulations in the growing labels and packaging sectors.

MCC Auckland flexographic printer Levi Lindsey was named BJ Ball Papers Print Apprentice of the Year at the Gala 2024 Pride In Print Awards Evening, an enthusiastic crowd giving him the loudest cheer of the night.

The world’s biggest print and packaging software developer, eProductivity Software, has opened a new facility for its Escada corrugated software technology production.