Industry

Stricken Melbourne signage business Adherettes is continuing to trade while in voluntary liquidation as offers are sought for the company.

Neopost (soon to be Quadient) and HP have teamed up to show off the new HP Stitch range of dye sublimation printers at open house events in Sydney and Melbourne.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg has a new chairman of its supervisory board, Dr Martin Sonnenschein, who comes from a background of digital transformation.


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Some 2,750 visitors from 60 countries took part in the leading exhibition of print technology for industrial manufacturing, InPrint Munich, viewing a range of emerging print applications.

Brad Tyler from Sydney’s Pegasus Print Group won $20,000 on popular afternoon TV quiz show Millionaire Hot Seat, spending the winnings on a new swimming pool.

Print on demand was in full flow at Melbourne’s Docklands Stadium as Velflex printed the AFL 2020 draft shirt names and numbers live at the event as the picks were chosen, in less than 60 seconds.

Used finishing equipment dealer BMS, which bought most of the equipment at collapsed trade finisher The Bindery, says it received assurances some of its money would be used for redundancy pay.

Catalogue consumption rose by 4.4 per cent last financial year, in what industry guru Tim Woods of Pulp and Paper Edge says is a confirmation of the role catalogues play in Australian advertising.

Central Coast trade label house Guru Labels has acquired tag and label supplier TyTags from the Sweeney family.

Ludlow cabinets with brass type were among the standout performers at an online auction for equipment from the Melbourne Museum of Print, with the on-site auction to take place tomorrow at its Footscray premises.

Sydney print finishing business Mega Tabs has been fined for its tardiness in recompensing migrant workers which it underpaid for two years.

Print shone in the Outdoor Media Association’s (OMA) 2019 Creative Collection competition for quarter three, with two pieces employing print among the four winners.

Packaging giant Orora is trialling new 100 per cent fibre cartons for Pink Lady apples as the groundswell against plastic gathers pace, in good news for the paper and board printing industry.

Sydney’s Imagination Graphics has celebrated the installation of Kimmy, its Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1 B2 inkjet press – the first in New South Wales.

Spicers is buying rival merchant Direct Paper, as part of its strategy to move into new areas, with the deal giving it an increased presence in packaging papers and boards. The O’Neill brothers, Dale and Todd, will be taking senior roles in the business and are keen to be a part of the success into the future.

Diversified print and marketing communications business IVE is spending $25m to acquire Salmat's catalogue distribution business, and will invest a similar amount again in upgrading the pre-collation technology at sites around the country.