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Kiss Lajos from Hungary has retained his title of Fespa World Wrap Master for the second year running. Marco Dittl from Germany and Jeremy Gayet from France, took second and third place, respectively.

Kall Kwik Oxford has captured 7,744kg of carbon dioxide since director Christine Herbert took part in a carbon capture tree planting day in Heartwood Forest with woodland conservation charity the Woodland Trust earlier this year.

Sun Chemical is extending its new low odour chemistry platform with its Streamline ESL 2 series of inks. These Streamline ESL 2 inks, which are fully colour matched for the latest Roland Pro4 generation of eco-solvent printers, will be available later in 2015. Details to follow.

Tickets are now available for a seminar on the Power of Print co-ordinated by Two Sides and Print Power with the BPIF and The Stationers' Livery Company. It will take place on Tuesday 3 November 2015, at Stationers' Hall in London, from 10am - 5.30pm.

i-Sub is the first Mimaki distributor to install the new Mimaki CFL605RT flatbed cutter in its showroom, enabling real-time demonstrations of the system in conjunction with i-Sub's Digi-Foil digital foiling solution, incorporating the Mimaki UJF-6042 desktop printer.

The dates for Sign and Digital UK 2016 have changed. The show will now run 19 - 21 April, a week earlier than originally announced. The switch has been made to accommodate what the organisers are calling “an exceptional demand for stand space.” The 2016 event will run in Halls 17 and 18 of the NEC as it did this year.

A third of all participating PrintIt! students would consider a career or an apprenticeship in the print and paper industries according to the latest annual survey undertaken by Proskills, the programme coordinator. The survey, undertaken by students before and after participating in the PrintIt! initiative, shows that 73% think the print industry is one that requires modern technology and skilled employees. Two thirds of the teachers involved in the programme said that PrintIt! gave their students a better insight into the career possibilities in the print and paper industries.

Contra Vision Backlite has been used to create this bold statement across a window in Bermondsey Square, London.

InfoTrends is working on a new study entitled ‘Micro to Mega: Trends in Business Communications’ that will profile communication service requirements (print and online) across eight to ten vertical industries in the US.

The next Newtech event takes place at the Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club in Durham tomorrow and Wednesday ( 9 - 10 June).

EFI is marking the 10 year anniversary of its acquisition of Vutek by showing a new video of its inkjet evolutions at YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR6KWkpcfdo

Callprint has acquired of the business operations of Manchester-based PPS Print Communications. The company has also taken on all five members of the current PPS staff, and confirmed that the business will continue to run uninterrupted and service its clients as PPS, as well as acting as a Manchester hub for Callprint’s operations in the north. It will convert into being a full Callprint operation in the next three months.

Epson Italia has now fully acquired For.Tex, having bought an initial 50% stake in the Italian-based textile print supplies business in 2012.

Babywise, reputedly the UK’s largest manufacturer of baby changing mats, play mats and high chair liners, has completed an order for 40,000 printed PVC changing mats for supermarket giant Aldi using Roland wide-format printers equipped with Lightbar solvent-UV ink technology.