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The data is in for Fespa 2015, which attracted 23,137 individual visitors. In total there were 43,775 visits, including repeats, over the five days of the show in Cologne in May, an increase of 17% compared with the previous flagship Fespa event in London in 2013.

AthleticWalk and StarWalk are two new printable flooring innovations from Asphalt Art.

Following recent expansion, Innotech Digital and Display has rebranded with a new visual identity and website.

Signs Express (Stockport) has changed ownership and is now under the management of new franchisee Mark Glover.

A new display board is available from 3A Composites. Dispa, composed of the two words ‘display’ and ‘paper’ is fully recyclable and has an embossed paper core. The structure that forms the central layer of Dispa lets air flow through to ensure flatness even when conditions are challenging.

Two Sides and Print Power have put their weight behind The Print Show, which runs 13-15 October at the NEC.

Middleton Paper, along with its Vision Paper and Board division, has recruited a number of new staff members, three being former PaperlinX employees.

To mark the 175th anniversary of the Cunard Line, three Cunard Liners, the Queen Mary 2, the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Victoria, sailed up the Mersey River and then performed their own ‘river dance’ to line up in formation. Leading in the ships was the Mersey Ferry wrapped in a modern version of the ‘dazzle’ pattern designed by Sir Peter Blake.

Every year Messe Düsseldorf awards the Drupa Prize to the best doctoral thesis in the Arts Faculty at Heinrich Heine University. This year it has gone to historian and Dr Designate Nina Kleinöder for her dissertation ‘Occupational Health and Safety in the West German Iron and Steel Industry in the 20th Century. Structures, Actors and Intertwining Processes’.

Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions now has a mobile app for comparing its media colour offerings and direct samples ordering.??

Innovative Laminations Corporation’s large sheet metallic substrates have been certified for use with the Color-Logic process.

Mutoh and Grafityp have obtained an Indoor Air Comfort Certificate (IAC) for the Grafityp Ecological non-PVC self-adhesive film (GEF-ES) printed with Mutoh Universal Mild Solvent (UMS) inks.

MTEX Technologies will showcase its ‘Micro Digital Textile Industry’ solutions at the ‘Meet the Manufacturer’ conference and trade show at London’s Tobacco Dock on 3 - 4 June.

Mimaki’s UK and Irish distributor, Hybrid Services, has played host for the second year running to graphic design students from South Cheshire College. The 16-18 year olds were given free run of the company’s showroom and the sign and graphics and industrial products portfolio of Mimaki printers in order to create finished products from their own designs.