Visual Connections has finalised its new board for 2024, with the new-look leadership group gathering this week to formulate the supplier association’s strategy for the next five years.

Printers are being asked to swim, or donate, for mental health in the annual Head Above Water 24-hour Swimathon – and this year they can swim in any location they choose – as one in five print people will face mental health issues, including depression and anxiety, in the next 12 months.

Net profit at the world’s biggest packaging business, Amcor, fell by almost 60 per cent in the first half of the financial year, leading to the company axeing 2000 jobs, about five per cent of its workforce, as it seeks to reduce costs.

Currie Group is hosting an ABG By Appointment event next month, aimed at providing tailored demonstrations to those in the market looking for label converting solutions.

HP Industrial Print will have eight automated production lines capable of handling 80 jobs and 25 different applications on the drupa show floor, powered by its latest innovations.

Lamont Print + Signs celebrated its new building with an Open House event in Townsville that saw 100 people attending, including local federal and state MPs.

Kuhn Corp Print & Packaging has purchased Regal Signs & Designs from its original owners, in a move to boost its growing sign and display operations.

Wide-format print solutions developers EFI and Agfa are in a new partnership, which will see them sell some of each other’s systems, supported by their own digital front-ends.

Staff and shareholders at online graphic design juggernaut Canva, which has partnerships with several ANZ printers, are set to share a $2.3bn windfall, with a secondary share offering imminent, according to Bloomberg. An IPO is a year or two away.

A change in the law on workplace standards means that print bosses who fail to implement measures to mitigate against sexual harassment or bullying can be fined, even if nothing has happened.

The first creditors meeting of stricken wide format supplies operation Starleaton is set to take place at 1pm today, in virtual format via Teams, for pre-approved creditors.

The board at AAB has made Mark Atkinson the new CEO at print powerhouse Pegasus Media & Logistics, succeeding Kevin Slaven who has now retired, with a new CFO, Frank Shapter, also in place. Atkinson joined Pegasus last June from Ovato, as GM Operations, and comes with a 27 year track record in print.

The upcoming Fespa Global wide format expo, slated for Amsterdam in March, is on track to have 500 exhibitors, with 487 already signed up to the four-day event, which runs under the Opportunities tagline.

Print technology developer Screen has just sold its 20,000th CTP system, the major milestone coming a quarter of a century after CTP emerged to revolutionise the prepress and printing industry.

Wide format hardware and consumables supplier, Starleaton, is in administration, with administrators fielding calls from companies looking to acquire the business. First creditors' meeting is 31 January.

Women in Print has appointed its new board for 2024, with Stephanie Gaddin as the new chair, and for the first time in its history there is an independent office bearer.