Active Display surplus equipment auction on now

An online auction of the surplus equipment out of Active Display Group's acquisition by IVE is now running, with inspection day slated for Monday, and the auction set to close next Wednesday.

There are 192 separate lots up for grabs. Star items include a Fujifilm 5m UVI-star roll-to-roll printer, a Durst Rho HS 800 flatbed printer, an HP Latex 260, an Epson Stylus Pro 11800, and varias Sias screen print systems. 

Auction items also include office furniture, fork lifts, cabinets, compressors, and sporting memorabillia. 

The Active Display equipment can be inspected on-site on 14 February between 10am and 3pm. It is being held by Gollant Auctioneers, in partnership with Peter Brand’s National Auctioneers & Valuers, Bidding is online on Gollant's website, and closes on 16 February.

IVE Group bought Active Display Group, and associated business AFI Branding, last October, in a $6.2m deal. The Active business is being fully integrated into the IVE brand, while AFI Branding will continue as a separate brand. The two robot fed Inca Onset flatbeds at Active have been taken into the IVE factory.

Brand says there's good bargains to be had at the auction, with major items up for grabs such as:

• Kongsberg XL-22 Cutting Table
• Graffica 1650mm Clamshell
• Fujifilm UVI-Star 5 metre
• Durst Durst Rho HS 800
• HP Latex 260
• Epson Stylus Pro 11880
• Eterna 1620 Flat Bed Auto-platen
• Heidelberg Cylinder die-cutter
• 6 x Forklift Trucks

"It's only in four or five years that a large format digital auction comes along, as opposed to commercial offset printer auctions," said Brand. He says that so far, there have been a number of inquires from Queensland.

"We are reasonably confident that the equipment will sell within Australia and be bought by local companies."

The auction is a sign of the times in a changing world. Brand, who has been in the printing industry for over 30 believes that in the short term there will be a rationalisation in the industy post-Covid.

"But this is nothing new," he said. "As printers we are reinventing ourselves almost every year, asking what we can do differently."

Most of the equipment can be inspected at Active Displays, 7 Miles St in Mulgrave, and others at Concept Displays, 29 Northgate Drive inThomastown.

Bidders can register on the Gollant Auctioneers website with bidding already underway.

For further details and to confirm inspection, contact Peter Brand: at 0417 908 907 or peterbrand@nationalauctions.com.au

The Gollant online auction can be accessed here.