Stephen De Lorenzo has been appointed managing director of STI Lilyfield, and will take over all responsibilities from Graham Trickey, who has decided to leave the company at the end of June 2013.

Leading Australian digital print business Excel (Australia) has opened for business in Thailand, and bought a rapidly growing software development business there.

Printers have until the end of the week to submit their entries for the twenty-second Australian Catalogue Awards.

Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a regional innovation hub for the Asia Pacific region in Shanghai, China.

All bar one of the sixteen multi-colour mainly B1 presses from Geon’s NSW, Victorian and Queensland plants, and from Melbourne’s Vega Press, are heading overseas, providing a welcome drop in capacity for the local metropolitan markets.

The Chinese ministry of commerce ended an anti-dumping investigation into coated ivory cardboard imported from the United States.

Cheque-Mates has signed an Australian first deal with Objectif Lune Asia to invest in +PReS Enhance – software designed to simplify complex multi-source printing processes using user friendly composition tools and interface.

OCA Group, a Melbourne innovation and tech firm that advises businesses and universities on their communications needs, has bought Big Print Typo from former president of the Carlton Football Club and well-known Australian businessman, Graham Smorgon.

PacPrint13 marked GBC’s first appearance as Neopost Australia, with a mammoth 240sqm stand – divided into document finishing, business mailing and large format solutions.

NSW Trade Print was using PacPrint to highlight the company’s point of differentiation from other trade printers, by displaying its embellishing options and foil like appearance but produced by CMYK printing.

Rugby league legend Wayne Pearce is the guest speaker at next week’s Heidelberg LIA NSW graduate of the year awards.

Heidelberg Australia and New Zealand has officially launched its new generation of Kodak’s Sonora XP process-free plates into the local market.

Packaging giant Tetra Pak is working with Australian and New Zealand processors on ten projects to increase the exports of dairy products to countries such as Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam.

Auckland specialty print business Kingsland Print has scored a major coup, buying a Scodix S74 digital polymer press off the PacPrint floor from the Currie Group.

Supplier to the Australian Open Kelmatt in Melbourne has put its signature on the deal for the largest ProCut 3200 XXXL in Australia, to be installed at their premises in Victoria.

Fujifilm Australia was among the companies reporting a more than successful PacPrint, and has announced a raft of sales successes from the show, also anticipating further major announcements in the coming weeks.

Blue Star New Zealand has appointed former Rapid Labels general manger Greg Howell as chief executive officer for Blue Star Print New Zealand and Blue Star Labels.

The Lithographic Institute of Australia celebrated its 50 year anniversary at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne during PacPrint.

Judging by PacPrint alone, the Australasian print industry still has plenty of potential, as technology dazzled and printers bought plenty of kit over five heady days in the Melbourne sunshine.

German plastic packaging manufacturer Sanner is focusing on expanding its operations in Asia after its total corporate sales increased 12.5 per cent to €50.6m (US$62.3m) in 2012.