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ContiTech has announced it is expanding its involvement in the Asian printing industry with the recent opening of an autonomous service centre in Singapore.

Aarque Graphics has announced the release of Roland DG’s latest VersaCAMM VS-640 inkjet printer/cutter, which it says will be available in New Zealand from March.

PMP suffered big revenue drops in its print, distribution and premedia divisions in the six months to December 2009, with Group operating revenue dropping 9.5 per cent to $645.4m in the first half of the 2009-10 financial year. However the country’s biggest printer has turned around last year’s first half loss and is reporting a jump in net profit after tax to $13.7m, compared to the $11.2m loss in the first half of 2008-09.

The country’s biggest paper merchant Australian Paper is building its environmental portfolio with its Saxton brand of speciality uncoated paper set to become carbon neutral from March 1.

To coincide with the release of the Packaging Council of Australia’s (PCA) fourth edition of its – Real Examples of Change and Innovation – brochure, the Council is hosting a dinner meeting in Melbourne, which will include presentations from three notable industry representatives.

Carmel Tebbutt, NSW deputy premier and minister for health will be the guest speaker at Printing Industries first CEO lunchtime Forum for 2010.

Dennis Cooper, long serving former general manager of McMillan Printing Group, until it's change of ownership in June 2007, has passed away aged 63. Friends are invited to attend his funeral service to be held in the South Chapel, Woronora Crematorium, Linden Street, Sutherland February 24 at 1pm.

Printing has made bigger cuts in its environmental footprint than any other industry however it is still made a target due to its failure to get the positive message out, industry researcher Phillip Lawrence told printers at an LIA event in Sydney last night.

OPUS Print Group is expanding its print network into Singapore and China by forging a strategic alliance with printers in Singapore and China. Meanwhile the group is also strengthening its domestic New Zealand operations with the establishment of Ligare New Zealand.

South Auckland became the first place in the country to receive HP’s latex ink technology with the installation of an HP Designjet L65500 printer at Manukau printer Colourworx.

Printing Industries has welcomed the new Federal Government Book Industry Strategy Group, announced this week. The Association outlines that the announcement was a follow-up to the successful industry campaign which ended in November 2009 with government support for the retention of territorial copyright.

Following the success of the first Digital Label Summit and the Digital Label Experience at Labelexpo Europe last year, the organisers of Labelexpo Global Series says the Digital Label Summit 2010 will be returning to Barcelona in June.