Industry

LIA Heidelberg Graduate of the Year, Angus McGrath, will use his $10,000 Visual Connections LIA National Graduate Scholarship Prize to study print in Switzerland.

Print, mail, packaging and 3PL operation Universal Approach has moved into new larger premises in Dandenong South, trebling its floorspace, as it expands its business.

Marketing guru Malcolm Auld puts ChatGPT to the test, and looks at how it, and artificial intelligence, will impact content creation and the print industry.

Opal says its Maryvale Energy from Waste project is going from strength to strength, as it signs a grant agreement for $48.2m under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative.

Team Print, led by PVCA treasurer and The Lamson Group CEO, Rodney Frost, raised $46,000 for the homeless, through the Vinnies CEO Sleepout.

Opal Cartons Australia will be closing its Heidelberg West facility come September next year, consolidating its operations across its sites in South Australia and New South Wales.

Ball & Doggett, Australia's largest provider of printable materials, will hold its annual end of financial year sale on 28 June from 8am to 6pm, offering substantial discounts on a range of products.

The Australian Tax Office is owed $30bn, two thirds of it by small and medium sized enterprises, with industry insiders warning a crackdown is imminent.

Commercial label printing specialist, Label Plus has installed a new Screen L350UV SAI inkjet digital label press from Jet Technologies, making it the first of its kind in Queensland.

Queensland-based sign operation Wood & Wood Sign Systems is in voluntary liquidation, the 31-year-old company ceasing business at its Caboolture site.

Opal will close its M2 paper making machine at Maryvale, less than six months after closing M5, both going as the result of the Supreme Court possum ruling, which stopped the mill's supply of logs for white paper manufacturing.

The heart-stopping moment a CEO is told his company is under cyber attack was shared at a recent industry lunch, but so was a clear understanding of what will happen and what you need to do.

Major label printing operation QLM Label Makers has a new CEO, with industry insider Tom Sullivan appointed to head the day-to-day running of the multinational business.

Figures from the Fespa census show the wide-format world has bounced back from the Covid downturn, with revenues up by six per cent since the last census, and the number of start-ups booming.

The federal government’s decision to overhaul the immigration system has been cautiously welcomed by the Print & Visual Communication Association.


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Print industry employers’ association PVCA is rebranding and relaunching as Visual Media Association, following a special general meeting that garnered unanimous support for the move.