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Dudley College’s new vocational training centre Evolve, and Dudley Sixth A level Centre have opened their doors for the first time thanks to design and branding experts Happy Giraffe signage and display consultancy Signlex.

Ipex has issued a statement saying that there is “still a real appetite from European PSPs to engage with multiple digital suppliers in the exhibition environment” following news that Xerox will not exhibit at the 2014 event, which has already seen the withdrawals of other big names like HP, Agfa and Heidelberg.

Newport-based Ottimo Digital has won the contract to print the new rear livery for the RAC’s fleet of 1,400 breakdown assistance vans. The work will be printed on the company’s two 64in Epson SureColor SC-S30600 roll-fed printers recently bought from distributor Spandex.

PrintCafé is looking for new franchisees in a bid by owner GDL - a group of print businesses - to expand the brand in the UK where there are currently five stores. Another 13 are due to open in the first quarter of the year.

Spandex has uploaded a video with a tour of its November Open House event held in the UK headquarters in Bristol which encompassed 22 stands, three vehicle wrapping booths and 18 pieces of print and production equipment. You can watch the tour by visiting www.spandex.co.uk/openhouse12video

Esko has entered into an OEM relationship with Epson to provide a customised Digital Front-End (DFE) for use with the Epson SurePress L-4033A and L-4033AW inkjet digital label presses.

3 Sigma, a supplier of specialty custom adhesive and top-coated materials, has completed installation of a wide-format specialty coater that accommodates 80in-wide materials and can apply multiple coatings and/or adhesives on both the front and back of the substrate. A laminating station permits producing pressure sensitive constructions with liner or multi-layered product designs.

Registration is now live for Sign and Digital UK 2013 which will take place at the NEC from 30 April to 2 May.

Chime Communications is to fully integrate subsidiaries Icon and McKenzie Clark, making its sport and entertainment division, CSM, one of the largest branding implementation agencies in the UK. At the time of writing the group was actively seeking a site within the south-east section of the M25 area in which to house the merged operations.

Colorific has said its new UV Light will be commercially available from the end of January 2013. Pricing for a 64in wide printer conversion kit starts at £2,550 and pricing for the full solution - a Roland RE 64in printer plus Lightbar conversion kit - starts at £13,495.

Epson Europe has collaborated with Ilford to develop the Omnijet Display Trans Media Kit for the production of backlit displays.

Process Metallic Colour System developer Color-Logic has been made a Silver Technology Partner by HP Scitex. Together, HP Scitex and Color-Logic enable large-format printers to produce striking images on metallic substrates.

Rudi Blackett, event director for Sign and Digital UK has responded to the launch of the new European Sign Expo next year with surprise. The event, recently announced by Fespa and partner European Sign Federation, will run alongside Fespa 2013 in London in June. Sign and Digital UK takes place at the NEC in Birmingham, 30 April - 2 May in 2013.

The BPIF says the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has listened to its arguments and reduced the target requirements for the new climate change agreements scheme due to start in January.