The VMA board has elected its office bearers for 2025, with Tony Bertrand succeeding Rodney Frost as treasurer the main change to the group. Frost remains on the board, Kevin Pidgeon continues as president.

Opal’s Maryvale Mill is at the centre of a tense standoff between management and the CFMEU, over deadlocked EBA discussions, with its 300 workers currently locked out of the facility.

At the upcoming Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Heidelberg will be showcasing its digital ecosystem for end-to-end production, based on the new Jetfire 50 inkjet printer with a new Stahlfolder.

And so here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, look to the future now, it's only just begun – all at Print21 echo the opening lines of the iconic tune from '70s glam rockers Slade, and wish the whole ANZ print industry a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

The VMA’s Mail Industry Coalition has taken the unprecedented step of boycotting the latest ACCC Price Consultation process for Australia Post's proposed inflation-busting mail price rises. VMA says it has become a rubber stamping exercise.

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has opened a new $6.8m facility in Clayton, Victoria, to print flexible solar films, and is now looking for partners.

The VMA will run its 2025 Annual Industry Metrics Roadshow, sponsored by Ricoh, as in-person events across five capital cities in February, with a Selling Print In 2025 session included.

The Visual Media Association has re-appointed its CEO, Kellie Northwood, to lead the association for a new five-year period, and will also return to its former head office in Mulgrave next year.

The final Print21 magazine of the year, packed with informed feature stories, is out now, and on the desks of the owners and managers of print businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

The new B3 inkjet cutsheet Jetfire 50, developed by Canon and Heidelberg and shown at drupa, will be released in Q2 next year, firstly to the three German-speaking countries, and to ANZ in the second half of the year.

PacPrint25 has released its Tips for Trade Show Success, exploring the modern role of trade shows for both visitors and exhibitors. The ANZ's biggest print trade expo will run in Sydney next May.

After a career that spanned half a century, Visual Connections CEO Peter Harper said farewell to print last night, passing the baton on to new executive general manager Karren Challoner-Miles.

The rebooted National Print Awards, which will be celebrated at a gala event during PacPrint next year, will cover five categories, plus the Judges’ Awards, and there are also nine major awards.

Event and exhibition services business, Coleman Group, is expanding its operation, including sign and display print manufacturing and logistics, into Victoria, taking a new facility in Port Melbourne.

Asga has expanded its suite of online business resources, adding 400 workplace health and safety documents for members, designed to assist with compliance, and to support better business practices.

The Visual Media Association says the AusPost approach of straying from its volume and costs forecasts, and consequently foisting price rises onto the print and mail industry, ‘defies commercial practice’.