Luxury packaging tradeshow Luxepack has joined forces with Pentawards for the third time with the winners of the Pentawards design competition to be presented in Shanghai next month.

As entries for Pride In Print head into their last week, organisers and patrons are doing all they can to assist anyone trying to put forward work for the competition.

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.

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.

Australian bioplastics manufacturer Plantic Technologies is set to distribute its line of the biopolymer rigid packaging films in the Americas after signing an exclusive partnership with US packaging supplier Klöckner Pentaplast Group.

DES and Epson are set to launch the Stylus Pro WT7900 - which is claimed to be the world's first water-based white ink package proofer - to the Australian market this month.

Heidelberg reports incoming orders and sales for the third quarter of 2009-10 were there highest for more than a year however Bernhard Schreier, CEO of Heidelberg says there is as yet no clear improvement as print shops are still reluctant to invest.