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Durst Group has been announced as the first official partner of the newly launched FESPA Foundation and is sponsoring Malekapane Primary School in the Capricorn South District of Limpopo in Africa. The ‘Adopt a School’ initiative, created by Neil Felton, CEO of FESPA, and overseen by Steve Thobela, FESPA Foundation’s Africa Coordinator, is an important part of the FESPA Foundation’s work.

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At the Roland Corporation store in Tokyo - 8^th to 31^st August - the ‘808 DAY’ event is designed as a celebration of the world’s first programmable percussion machine: the Roland TR-808. As a tip of the hat to the then groundbreaking technology, anyone purchasing its modern-day equivalent – the SP-404MKII electronic audio sampler—will receive a limited-edition custom-printed faceplate, featuring a TR-808-inspired design, printed on the Roland DG VersaOBJECT MO-240 direct-to-object printer.

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MM Plastics, a division of Metal Manufactures Limited, is a group of specialist plastics and signage businesses which include Graphic Art Mart, Fluoro Pacific, Dotmar Engineering Plastics and Dotmar Injection Moulding. The group has now added New Zealand-based supplier to the print and signage industry, Computaleta, to the fold to ‘strengthen both its business and the wider industry in New Zealand’.

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136 lives lost, homes destroyed and thousands left with nothing: that’s the legacy of the July flooding disaster in Texas’s central Hill Country. In an effort to help, Signarama San Antonio owners, Matt and Kerry Mattingly, printed a couple of hundred ‘yard’ signs, featuring a QR code that pointed donations to the Community Foundation Texas Hill Country. 6,000 signs and USD$60m later and the emerging legacy is one of community strength and support, powered by simple sign printing.

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Heidelberg has announced a new international summit - SHIFT 2025 – which will see the company bringing together the printing industry’s digitalisation experts for a two-day event hosted first at the halle02 events venue in downtown Heidelberg (on 16^th September), then moving to the Heidelberg Print Media Center, in the company’s Wiesloch-Walldorf site (on 17^th September). 

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Supported by Velflex and Siser, Mimaki has recently held customer events in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, showcasing its Direct-To-Film technology, including a sneak peek of the company’s first UV-curable Direct-to-Film (UV-DTF) printer, the Mimaki UJV300DTF-75.

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Following news earlier this year that Currie Group had been named the top Canon Colorado partner in the Asia-Pacific region, and with current YTD performance figures seeing it leading the world for Colorado sales, Currie Group and Canon Production Printing have announced the extension of their regional partnership to now also include New Zealand.

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When ORAFOL acquired a stake in Belgian specialty film manufacturer Group MAM (Michiels Advanced Materials) in September 2024, the move marked entry into a completely new market for ORAFOL, with the aim of adding advanced sun protection films to its product portfolio. The initial outcome of this is a new spectral-selective sun protection film - ORAGUARD HelioShield – which significantly minimizes energy consumption through its ‘light in, heat out’ technology.

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Epson SureColor and SurePress printers have taken out top honours in no less than five of the 50 award categories at the PRINTING United Alliance 2025 Pinnacle Product Awards, which aims to ‘celebrate exceptional products and technologies that advance quality, capability and productivity’.

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Melbourne-based large-format print specialist Vivad opened its doors to celebrate its 25th anniversary in style, welcoming industry peers, partners, suppliers and friends for an evening of tours, technology, games and entertainment. Ewen Donaldson, owner and managing director of the Campbellfield-based business, which has recently almost doubled in size to a 7,500sqm footprint, said: “This new facility is a blank canvas…a great space to grow and innovate.”

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In a bid to be seen to be green, the digital age ‘noughties’ have seen a plethora of global companies jump on the environmental bandwagon with often unvalidated claims about their products or processes being environmentally friendly. Whether a deliberate marketing tactic or clumsy interpretation of what’s green and what isn’t (e.g. sprucing a product’s green qualities whilst ignoring the supply chain that gets that product on the shelves), ‘greenwashing’ has fast become a global phenomenon.

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Building on its acquisition of Sign Essentials and the consequent integration of the leading sign and graphic industry supplier into new premises in Brendale, Ball & Doggett’s latest development is to expand availability of the IECHO digital cutting range to all States, previously supplied through Sign Essentials in Queensland.

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Widely used to create and evaluate sustainable investment funds and other financial products, the FTSE4Good Index Series was designed to measure the performance of companies that demonstrate strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. The fact that Epson has been recognised in the FTSE4Good Index Series for ESG initiatives that contribute to social sustainability, for a 22^nd consecutive year is due testament to Epson’s continued Sustainability journey.

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Digidelta, a specialist manufacturer of digital printing, decoration, visual communication and textile materials, has announced the worldwide availability of Decal Dot Matrix, a bubble free 100-micron self-adhesive monomeric vinyl for use in short term indoor applications, that is compatible with solvent, Latex and UV printing technologies.

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Two leading Fujifilm print products – the J Press 750HS and the Revoria Press EC2100S - have won Pinnacle Awards from the Printing United Alliance in the Output Category. The awards mark the third consecutive year that Fujifilm’s Business Innovation Division in North America has earned Pinnacle Awards.

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Drytac has announced the launch of  a new white matte monomeric high grab self-adhesive vinyl, called Polar HiGrab Air. The vinyl delivers up to three years of durability across both indoor and outdoor use and is ideal for applications such as machinery signage, asset tagging, low energy substrates and for use on rough surfaces like brick and concrete. 

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Mutoh Europe, the EMEA business unit of Mutoh Industries Co. Ltd., Japan, has announced the launch of the XPJ-1682SR DS Pro, a new 64” wide (1625 mm) dual-head dye sublimation printer engineered for high-speed, precision-driven textile and soft signage production. A newly developed dye sublimation ink, DS4 ProFlex, has been designed for use with the printer, to deliver consistent, high-quality production printing results on a wide range of polyester-materials.

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In a deal due to be finalised over the next few weeks, Heidelberg is set to further cement its long-standing relationship with post-press manufacturer Polar Group by acquiring Polar Mohr’s intellectual property, patents and brand rights.

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Harden Packaging’s flexo printing apprentice, Jackson Young, has been named as the LIA Victoria Graduate of the year, with Bambra Press’s Marcel Feillafe receiving a ‘special distinction’ award. The announcements were made at the print training facilities at Holmesglen Institute, with a tour of the facilities included for those who attended the event.

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Currie Group has entered into an agreement with family-owned, German-based manufacturer, Pro Cut, to become the ANZ supply partner for Pro Cut’s Fold Stream range of print finishing systems. Rob Mesaros, Currie Group CEO, says the new partnership is ‘a further demonstration of our commitment to provide total solutions for the Australian and New Zealand markets’.

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Building on the technology of its Oraguard 372 Anti-Graffiti Polyester Overlaminate Film, Orafol has launched a new anti-graffiti film - Oralite 5095 which it says delivers against all three ‘gold standard’ requirements: protection, durability and clarity, claiming the film as now being ‘the first choice anti-graffiti film for leading traffic sign manufacturers in Australia’.