On the second day of China Print 2013 in Beijing, KBA handed the Rapida 145 showcased over to Ningbo Beike Packaging which becomes the first KBA Rapida 145 large-format press to go to China and the second in Asia to be installed after the trade show at the customer’s plant in Ningbo.

Australian, Pakistani and Japanese print businesses have taken out the four awards in the HP Asia Pacific and Japan print excellence awards.

Chinaplas 2013 will be held in Guangzhou from May 20-23 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Pazhou, Guangzhou following its staging in Shanghai last year with exhibition space expected to be 220,000 sqm and visitor numbers to exceed 100,000.

Goss has introduced what is says is the world’s first high-automation, compact 2x1 press for newspaper, book and semi-commercial printing: the Magnum Compact.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg says it has reached key milestone on its way back to profitability with a five per cent rise in sales in the year to March 31.

Canon Professional Print will launch its new workflow software PRISMAprepare version 6.1 at PacPrint next week.

KBA will present a new-generation sheetfed offset press, the large-format Rapida 145 with a sheet size of 1060x1450mm and output of 17,000sph, at China Print from next week.

Roland DG Corporation has added to its global senior executive team with the appointment of Michael Man to a new position as president of East Asia Sales HQ.

Imaging giant Kodak is looking at emerging from its two year Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection status as early as this July.

Swiss-based Müller Martini will present its latest solutions for printing and print finishing at China Print, producing books live with high levels of automation.