Orora achieved a strong uptick in both sales and profits in the half year to December, with its display graphics and packaging businesses in North America achieving double digit growth.

The Ricoh Pro L5130e and Ricoh Pro L5160e extended gamut latex printers have won the European Digital Press 2021 award for roll-to-roll printers of less than 170cm.

Durst has won two European Digital Press awards, one for its high-performance P5 350 HS hybrid printing system for roll and board media, and the other for its its P5 TEX iSUB roll-to-roll textile printer.

Mutoh Australia has released its new XpertJet 1341SR Pro series printer, which the company says prints at twice the speed of its predecessor, and will appeal to space-challenged businesses.

The “legendary” annual Fespa barbie is back for 2022, with the sign and display print association inviting printers to kick start the year with “this iconic social event”, slated for 16 February in Melbourne.

Spend on outdoor media is bouncing back from its Covid hammering, with December the first month to exceed pre-pandemic revenue levels, but 2021 was still 20 per cent down on the 2019 pre-Covid year.

Fespa Global Print Expo says it will bring together the strongest line-up of exhibitors since the pre-Covid 2019 show, with 250 suppliers already in for Berlin, and more coming for the May/June show.

Local Corflute manufacturer Corex Plastics is acquiring Megara, Australian manufacturer of graphics-grade solid polypropylene sheet and innovative POS display, consumer packaging, presentation, and stationery products.

A trio of Epson printers have won Buyers Lab 2022 Wide Format Pick Awards in the Signage category, as judged by Keypoint Intelligence, following 24 months of lab testing.

The Rodney Robertson signage factory has been completely destroyed by a raging fire overnight, leaving it a smouldering wreck.

Industrial giant 3M has invested $133m in upgrading its graphic film production facility in Germany – which supplies ANZ – adding two new lines, to produce an extra 5 million sqm of wide format media a year.

After a enforced hiatus, wide format print association Fespa Australia hosted its annual Christmas party, with members enjoying convivial conversation – and sharing Covid war stories – over beers and snacks.

Epson has launched its SD-10 spectrophotometer, which is battery powered, small enough to fit in a hand or pocket, works with an app on a smartphone, and has just won a Good Design Best 100 award.

Paul Coniglio has sold out of wide format outfit Print X One to Rob and Chris Grosso, less than a year after he bought the business from the Motor One group, who had acquired it from founder Stephen Lane three years earlier.

In its biggest wide format investment to date, trade house Avon Graphics is installing Australia’s first Durst P5 350 HS system, significantly boosting its production power.

The outdoor media industry is moving toward carbon neutrality in 2022, with the industry set to calculate the carbon output of outdoor campaigns, in order to give advertisers the chance to offset their spend.