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Labelexpo confirms 100 product launches

Kiwis visiting this year’s Labelexpo Americas in Chicago wil...

Heidelberg GTO celebrates 40 years

The world’s biggest selling offset press celebrates 40 years in the market this month, with the Heidelberg GTO having its launch back in 1972 and still going strong under the PrintMaster GTO moniker....

Ferrostaal releases Morgana PUR binders

Ferrostaal New Zealand has released the Morgana DigiBook 150 and 450 PUR (Polyurethane Reactive) binders, expanding Morgana's presence in the local short run production market....

Heidelberg sees best orders in four years

Heidelberg has made a positive start to its order figures for this financial year. thanks to a good showing at the drupa, with incoming orders climbing to around €890m (NZ$1291m). ...

Ipex Digital dances to samba beat

Ipex will launch its first Latino show - Ipex Digital South America - next year, hoping the surging Brazilian economy will provide a winning platform for Ipex's next overseas venture....

Panpa looks to digital at Forum

The digitalisation of the newspaper will be a key topic at this year’s Panpa conference, with the association attracting one of the world’s high profile names in digital transformation – Poland’s Grzegorz Piechota – to its Future Forum....

Printed Court papers could disappear soon

New Zealand Courts could reduce their reliance on paper with new technology under development by the Ministry of Justice, called eBench, which Courts Minister Chester Borrows demonstrated recently....

Fuji Xerox signs up for Verdigris project

Fuji Xerox has joined Verdigris, the not-for-profit print environmental research initiative, as a founder member, joining the likes of Agfa, Canon, drupa, EFI, Fespa, Fujifilm, HP, Ricoh, and Xeikon as supporters....

APN training efforts recognised

APN Print New Zealand has received the inaugural PrintNZ Company Training Award, which the company says rewards its efforts as an industry trainer and acknowledges the people involved....

Labels success forces Wedderburn move

With some help from Allied Machinery Services, label and electronic equipment manufacturer Wedderburn has moved to larger premises in Mt Wellington, doubling the size of its premises in the process....

Sustainable packaging series gets underway

The Australasian round table series on sustainable packaging kicked off in Auckland yesterday, featuring experts who delivered presentations on strategies to move the industry toward greater sustainability....

Fespa 2013 set to be the biggest

Wide format exhibition Fespa 2013 in London looks set to buck the downward trend in trade shows by being the biggest to date, with more than 310 exhibitors already confirming their bookings, nearly doubling the exhibitor numbers in comparison to the la...

Trust holding court for fundraiser

The Full Colour Trust promises a great night out, and some good laughs, when it holds its second fundraiser of the year at the Court Theatre in Christchurch July 22....

Xaar expands print head range

Industrial inkjet print head specialist Xaar has added two new greyscale print heads to its wide-swathe Proton inkjet family, both delivering 15 picolitre drops at high speed....

Buy Amcor says Commonwealth Bank

The Commonwealth Bank has upgraded its recommendation on packaging giant Amcor to buy from hold, with the stock having underperformed the market by nine per cent in the last month....

PMP blocks suitor TMA from due-diligence

PMP has blocked its suitor TMA from conducting any further due diligence as part of its plans to carry out a takeover, citing funding questions as the reason for withdrawing co-operation....

Print apprenticeships under threat

A week after celebrating its Apprentice of the Year and Pride In Print Awards, the printing industry faces a threat to its apprentice training system from proposed government changes....

BlueStar sells Rapid Labels to Tiri

BlueStar has conditionally agreed to sell its successful label company, Rapid Labels, only days after Rapid Labels enjoyed gold medal success at Pride In Print and saw one of its label printers become Apprentice of the Year....

Label printer wins top apprentice award

Gareth Hilton, from Rapid Labels in Auckland, took out the New Zealand print industry’s ultimate training award at the Pride In Print Awards held at Auckland’s Langham Hotel on Friday night....

Foodtech Packtech ready for September

Foodtech Packtech organisers say the event will reflect the food and beverage technology and packaging sectors’ strong performance when it takes place at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds from September 25-27....

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2012 produced challenges, achievements, and more than a few changes for the industry. New PrintNZ manager Ruth Cobb reviews an eventful year

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