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BAF Graphics is behind the stunning graphics that meet visitors to The View from The Shard in London. The company was appointed by fit out contractor Benchworks and design group Event Communications to support the ambitious decoration project.

Avery Dennison has expanded its PET recycling programme via two new collection facilities in Europe. Waste PET liners can now be sold directly to Avery Dennison's recycling partner Morssinkhof Rymoplast, either at its main plant in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, or at collection facilities in Lichtenvoorde, also in the Netherlands, and Przeczno in Poland.

Four Pees has taken on the international distribution for Tucanna. With tFlow, PrintControl and RapidCheck, the Tucanna product-line covers PDF workflows, colour management and quality control for digital and conventional printing.

InfoTrends is publishing a report ‘Understanding Vertical Markets in Western Europe: Corporate Communication Requirements’ to provide print service providers, among others, with the market intelligence needed to successfully target a specific vertical market and establish leadership within it.

Manfred Senn, managing director of Swiss full service agency mapro, will present his experience of running successful cross media campaigns to print service providers at the PODi European AppForum in London, this week.

The first deliveries of Hollanders' new entry-level ColorBooster 250 2.5m wide-format printer are scheduled for the New Year. The machine will debut at SGIA expo in Orlando next month, where the company will also show the 3.2m ColorBooster XL and introduce double-sided ColorBooster DS options to the American market.

Economist Dennis Turner has been confirmed as the first key speaker of the BAPC Conference in January 2014.

HP is to be a Gold Sponsor at the second PODi European AppForum to be held on 24-25 September 2013 in London.

Consultancy group Printfuture will run a series of Master Classes at Ipex 2014 that focus on business growth and production efficiency for SME printers.

Kyocera is opening an inkjet printhead design centre at its European headquarters in Esslingen, Germany on 23 September. It will provide technical support for printers that use Kyocera printheads and customers will be able to visit the centre to test and evaluate print quality under various conditions with their particular media.

At two open days, taking place at Agfa UK's headquarters in Leeds on 9 – 10 October, wide-format printing equipment distributor i-Sub Digital will host live demonstrations of the Agfa Anapurna M2050. Demonstrations will also include cutting and finishing on a Zund cutting table and attendees are invited to bring their own files to test both machines.

Fashion designer Henry Holland has used graphics printed by Displayways on an Océ Arizona UV flatbed printer, together with a giant angled mirror, for his London Fashion Week catwalk show. The technique is a fashion first and created the illusion that models at the show were walking on clouds.

Spring 2014 will see the publication ‘Disruptive Supply Chain Strategies for the Wide Format Printing Market’ from InfoTrends.

imageData Group has ramped up capacity once again by installing a Durst Rho 1012 at its large-format digital centre in Howden, East Yorkshire.