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Canon Production Printing Oceania (CPP) has announced the appointment of Rodden Graphics as a sales agent for the label and packaging sectors across Australia and New Zealand. The announcement follows the recent expansion of CPP’s product portfolio, with the sale, installation and servicing of Edale flexographic label and carton converting systems (a Canon company since 2022), alongside the new Canon LabelStream LS2000 digital label press.
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Running mid-September through to the end of October, Roland DG Australia has officially launched its upcoming, refreshed 2025 Roland Academy Online Training Series, introducing updated content featuring the latest VersaWorks 7 software, while continuing to cover the most in-demand topics identified through customer feedback, technical support insights, and FAQs.
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Curated in collaboration with global automotive influencer, Alex Hirschi - known to her 125 million + fans as Supercar Blondie - Avery Dennison has launched an exclusive ‘Supercar Blondie Collection’ of four new Supreme Wrapping Film colours, ‘driven by a shared commitment to push the boundaries of style and innovation’.
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Now in its fourth year, the number of candidates for this year’s annual FESPA Australia 2025 Leaders Program has risen to 14 (up from 12 in previous years) and the intensive two-day workshop, facilitated by Carl Harman, has been locked in to immediately precede the FESPA Australia Annual Conference (17th October, Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney).
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The Orafol Group has recently acquired Korean company, Reflomax Co. Ltd. As part of its ongoing strategy to further strengthen its Asia-Pacific presence. The strategic acquisition will also enable the implementation of innovative reflective technologies within the Orafol Group.
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Visionary, a leading innovator in sustainable signage solutions, has launched its Visionary Green recycling program, designed to eliminate self-adhesive signage waste from landfill and create a circular economy for the signage industry. The program provides a simple, circular pathway for end-of-life signage: businesses can replace traditional PVC self-adhesive signage with Visionary’s PVC-free alternatives, return used signage materials for collection, and recycle them into sustainable products.
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Following a successful management buyout of core distributor operations from Aldus Graphics, a new specialist distributor - CS Graphics – has been borne, serving the label and packaging industry across Australia and New Zealand. The new company is being led by industry veterans Chris Bodger and Sheetal Mishra as co-Directors, bringing decades of combined experience in the narrow web printing and converting sector.
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In the increasingly hotly contested area of narrow-web digital label presses, another industry-renowned pioneer of digital colour printing, is the latest to throw its hat into the ring, with the Labelexpo debut of the TX300, a narrow-web digital label press powered by Xeicon’s Titon toner technology.
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Epson has unveiled a new compact printing solution that it is confident is the perfect fit for entry-level garment printing and entrepreneurial creators ready to launch or grow their apparel business. The solution includes the SureColor F1070 hybrid direct-to-film (DTF) and direct-to-garment (DTG) printer, complete with a ‘robust set of inks and maintenance supplies to empower serious creators to bring their designs to life on a wide range of fabrics and products’.
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Huge congratulations to industry stalwart John Wall for over two decades both in leadership roles with Roland DG and as a (volunteer) member of the Board of Visual Connections Australia. His service to the printing and graphic arts sector is highly commendable and the words passion, grace, tenacity, wisdom and humour have all been appropriately bandied around in announcements about his recent decision to retire.
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Currently enjoying its 11th season as the official wallpaper product sponsor for popular Channel 9 reality TV show ‘The Block’, renowned design and printing company Grafico has once again helped the contestants deliver against a seemingly impossible challenge. This time the brief was to capture artwork designed by each of the 5 pairs of contestants using Canon imaging technology, digitise and print it as custom wallpaper using a Canon Colorado, all in one ‘mega-day’.
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Having followed the story through from when Landa Corporation’s financial struggles started to surface, to a stay of execution granted by the court to enable them to raise more funds to keep the company afloat…the increasingly inevitable conclusion has now been reached and FIMI Opportunity Funds has been successful in acquiring the debt-ridden digital printing company in a relatively complex USD$80m debt restructuring plan.
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One of Australasia’s leading paper and packaging companies, Opal (a member of NIPPON Paper Group), opened the doors to its Melbourne facility recently for a self-styled Innovation Expo, which enabled the company to show customers its application of new digital printing and cutting technologies, ‘creating a wonderland awash with vibrant colours, show-stopping design and clever engineering’.
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Durst Group has announced the full integration of GMG’s spectral colour management technology into its proprietary Durst Workflow software as well as into the open Smart Factory portfolio of its Open Software Initiative. Michael Deflorian, Director Business Unit Software & Solutions at Durst Group, says: “This will enable us to deliver new levels of colour consistency: fully automated and highly scalable.”
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Headquartered out of a facility at 10, Orbit Drive in Rosedale, Auckland, a dedicated Orafol NZ operation has now been officially launched and welcomed into the broader ANZ fold, marking a major milestone in the company’s expansion and further commitment to its local presence across Australasia.
- Pozitive confirms local availability of two new swissQprint Generation 5 flatbed printers
- Industry reports that Starleaton has re-commenced trading
- Landa purchase ‘no walk in the park’ says FIMI
- Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 400 Digital Press certified by Color-Logic
- Screen to preview water-based inkjet label press at Labelexpo
- Stora Enso €1.7bn investment in carbon-neutral specs for Finnish production site
- Ball & Doggett launches competition to expand awareness of Metamark product range
- Konica Minolta Australia powers new e-waste recycling initiative
- Avery Dennison set to acquire Meridian’s flooring adhesives business
- Ricoh Australia funds six-year scholarship for Indigenous Education
- Epson's ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ target officially acknowledged as ‘Science Based’
- Four Women in Print ‘2025 HP Indigo Scholarships winners announced
- FIMI poised to give Landa Digital Printing its lifeline
- Agfa’s Speedset Orca successfully field-tested at 11,000 B1 sheets an hour
- Canon Production Printing brings new label and packing print presses on line for Australia and NZ
