Australian-owned supplier of digitally-printed signage, display systems, fabric and textile solutions, Euro Poles, will show several innovative solutions at the upcoming Visual Impact expo.

Ball & Doggett aims to change the outdoor display market with the launch of its new eco-friendly fibre-based Shark Skin Outdoor Display Board, which it says performs in challenging environments.

Wide format print solutions supplier has launched Neschen Wall-Grip PP L-UV, a new PVC-free high-tack vinyl, which it says will adhere to virtually any type of walls.

Mick Harrold, from Victorian operation Visual Exposure, is the new Asga president, effective immediately, succeeding Julie Rochester, who stepped down from the president role following the Asga AGM.

The Outdoor Media Association is launching Move 1.5, which it says will introduce an accurate measurement for digital campaigns and a qualitative metric for digital signage, as it strives for market recovery.

Australia’s largest fabric printer, AFI Branding, celebrates hitting a business milestone today, 30 years in operation, growing from a two-man band in 1992 to become an innovate high-tech company today.

Print Effect has produced a 70 metre long by two metre wide rainbow floor graphic on TexWalk, that runs along the length of Circular Quay, for this weekend’s Sydney Mardi Gras.

Billboards are leading oOh!media out of the pandemic, with revenue for 2021 within touching distance of the pre-pandemic 2019 figure, but the company says it will digitise even more of its inventory.

Orora achieved a strong uptick in both sales and profits in the half year to December, with its display graphics and packaging businesses in North America achieving double digit growth.

The Ricoh Pro L5130e and Ricoh Pro L5160e extended gamut latex printers have won the European Digital Press 2021 award for roll-to-roll printers of less than 170cm.

Durst has won two European Digital Press awards, one for its high-performance P5 350 HS hybrid printing system for roll and board media, and the other for its its P5 TEX iSUB roll-to-roll textile printer.

Mutoh Australia has released its new XpertJet 1341SR Pro series printer, which the company says prints at twice the speed of its predecessor, and will appeal to space-challenged businesses.

The “legendary” annual Fespa barbie is back for 2022, with the sign and display print association inviting printers to kick start the year with “this iconic social event”, slated for 16 February in Melbourne.

Spend on outdoor media is bouncing back from its Covid hammering, with December the first month to exceed pre-pandemic revenue levels, but 2021 was still 20 per cent down on the 2019 pre-Covid year.

Fespa Global Print Expo says it will bring together the strongest line-up of exhibitors since the pre-Covid 2019 show, with 250 suppliers already in for Berlin, and more coming for the May/June show.

Local Corflute manufacturer Corex Plastics is acquiring Megara, Australian manufacturer of graphics-grade solid polypropylene sheet and innovative POS display, consumer packaging, presentation, and stationery products.