News

Christophe Aussenac has replaced Christian Duyckaerts as Fespa president - a term that runs for three years.

HP will host a webinar entitled ‘Putting Sustainability at the Heart of your Business’ at 10am on 28 October.

ColorGate has completed its management team with the appointment of Daniel Hummel as its new chief technology officer.  

Participants in CMYUK’s Creatives in Residence Live (CIRL) programme are embarking upon their first design brief. The three surface designers have until 5 November to produce an A3 swatch book, three wallpaper designs, three natural, and three polyester printed fabrics under the theme’ Abstract Florals’.

Perspex Distribution founder and MD Keith Piggott will leave the company on 28 February next year. He will be succeeded by Craig Dodson who joined PDL in 2003 and has been a director for the last ten years.

Flint Group Packaging is to further increase the prices of all its ink and coating products for the flexible packaging, paper and board, and narrow web markets. Increases will vary by product and will be applied throughout the remainder of 2021.

The BPIF has held a graduation ceremony in honour of those who have completed their Level 5 management course over the past two years, plus Level 2, 3  and 5 apprentices recognised for their outstanding achievement.

Late payments are threatening the survival of small businesses across the UK, according to findings from new QR-code payment and invoicing app, tomato pay. Its poll showed that 84% of small businesses suffer from late payments. One in eight (12%) wait more than 60 days on average for an invoice to be paid, while one in 50 (2%) have to wait more than 90 days.

EFI has brought out the Fiery FS500 Pro platform to improve digital print productivity.

The 180-10-A series of single flute routers from Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) has been extended with the Vitreo coated router for machining aluminium composite material (ACM) and an Iridis coated variant for the machining of aluminium.

Koenig and Bauer Durst has unveiled its first product - the VariJet 106 7-colour B1 single-pass sheetfed press that combines digital inkjet and offset printing.

Global Graphics is changing its name to Hybrid Software. The move, proposed on 28 September, was agreed at a general meeting held on 13 October. The name change has been accepted by the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales.

Dalim Software is implementing a number of new initiatives as part of its sustainability policy, and has taken on Jonas Klein to be responsible for building and monitoring that policy.

Neschen has extended its UV-curable and Latex print media range with easy dot PET L-UV matt polyester film manufactured from 25% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.