SWUG to miss 2017 ahead of 'significant' 30th conference

Nov 22, 2016 at 12:43 am by Staff


Australia's Single Width Users group will take a break again in 2017 as it approaches its thirtieth year.

President Bob Lockley told GXpress that committee members had decided there will be a "gap year" in 2017, with thoughts already turning to a major event in March 2018.

It will be the second time in three years that no conference has been held: The group - for whom the previously annual conference has been its major event - took a break in 2015 after the previous year's event (in Darwin) was held later in the year because of seasonal weather.

Last year's conference in Penrith NSW - hosted by Fairfax Media North Richmond - returned to its normal March time-slot.

SWUG was established in 1985 with a conference at the Gold Coast Bulletin, continuing from 1987-1993, 1996-2007 (with a combined event held in Bendigo in 1998/99), and 2009-2014.

Lockley says the 2018 30th conference is likely to be held in South Australia, with News Corp Australia's Mile End site as host: "We plan to make this a big event as this is a significant milestone," he says.

Advertiser Newspapers' Mile End was the first of News' colour print sites to be commissioned following a giant 1987 order. It has three manroland Newsman presses, which were upgraded to provide 96-pp of back-to-back colour at a cost of $13.5 million in 2009 - when current News executive chairman Michael Miller was managing director - and a Ferag mailroom which includes facilities for flat-wrapping.


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