Converting & Printing

Recognising the convergence between labels and packaging, Labelexpo Americas next month will feature a dedicated flexible packaging zone, with technology and workshops.

Ferdinand (Ferdi) Rüesch IV is this year’s winner of the prestigious Label Industry Global Awards R Stanton Avery Special Recognition Award, sponsored by Avery Dennison.

During Labelexpo Americas next month, Omet will provide a free shuttle to the new Omet Americas Innovation Center, for live demos of the Omet KFlex 17. Omet is represented by Currie Group in ANZ.

Label printers will receive an ‘HP Indigo First and Flexo-second’ mantra, at Labelexpo Americas next month, with the message that customers can use digital print for any job, regardless of its length.

Online sign and display business Easy Signs is making a major move into label printing, signing up for a new HP Indigo 6K and ABG DigiLase converting system supplied by Currie Group.

Schur Star Systems Australia has installed and commissioned a new Windmoeller & Holscher Miraflex 10-colour flexographic press, the first of its kind in Australia, to meet growing demand for the company’s flexible packaging solutions.

Mastery of a job so complicated that other label converters turned away from it, has seen MCC Albany named Supreme Award winner at this year’s 2024 New Zealand Pride In Print Awards.

Some 170,000 printers went to the 2024 drupa, which ran for the first time since 2016, over a shortened time period of 11 days in Dusseldorf, the visitor numbers a 35 per cent decrease since that last drupa.

The Van Dyke Press has backed up for a successor to its Omet flexo press after a successful 14 years development of the aluminium foil sector, signing for new machine with Currie Group at drupa.

In light of the company beginning to build its folding carton business, IVE Group has joined APCO in a move it says is part of its environmental, social and governance strategy.

Much of the ANZ print industry is preparing to head over to Dusseldorf in the next few days, as drupa, the biggest global print show, which will have a strong packaging component, opens its doors on 28 May.

Much has changed in the print industry over the past 75 years, but the values that have driven Currie Group since its inception not only remain today, but continue to drive it from strength to strength.

The 2024 Women in Print Breakfast series is underway and the Print21 team was in attendance at the event in Sydney, led for the final time by NSW Patron Debbie Burgess.

Inkdustrial has signed an agreement with Roland DG Australia to become a dealer of Roland DG Printers and Cutters with a particular focus on the UV range of solutions, with applications for packaging.

For HP Indigo, having a digital-first mindset is a key component of today’s successful print business. Its new releases, timed for the giant trade expo drupa, are all based on the digital-first premise.

A visit from Mark Hyde, sales manager for AB Graphic International, to lead the ABG By Appointment events at Currie Group’s Melbourne headquarters, delivered more than expert insights to the sessions.