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Print focus 'still strong' at IfraExpo
Despite all the hype surrounding the iPad, Android and other innovations, WAN-Ifra says the core business of publishing houses – print – will play an outstanding role at its IfraExpo in Hamburg (October 4-6).
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40 per cent surge steers KBA towards the black
A surge in big newspaper press orders is part of the reason KBA is “heading back into the black” with higher level of capacity utilisation, and a return to full-time work at most plants.
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Talking shop: Ipex retro
Be thankful for small mercies: Against the challenges of ash clouds, an airline strike threat and a still-ravaged local economy, the best Ipex could do was put on a brave face.
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Report cites the benefits of being green
A new report that examines the environmental implications of 'green' strategies for newspaper companies has just been published by the WAN-Ifra. ‘Going Green’ is a product of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project.
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QI: ‘We’ll vindicate ourselves in court,’ says Jansen
QI Press Controls has responded to the US patent action against it by Quad/Tech, and says it will oppose the expansion of claims to include its IRS register control system and IDS closed loop colour density control.
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QuadTech adds more products to QI patent action
Press control systems developer QuadTech says it has asked the US District Court in Philadelphia to expand its patent infringement action against QI Press Controls to include two additional QIPC products.
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manroland agrees purchase of Wifag
manroland has announced that it is negotiating to buy Wifag AG, the Bern, Switzerland, newspaper press manufacturer, and has signed a letter of intent.
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MAN overboard: Ferrostaal drops the group tag
MAN Ferrostaal subsidiaries around the world – including those in Australia and New Zealand – are dropping the 'MAN' from their name, following changes in the German commercial register.
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Ramadge joins World Editors Forum board
Gavin O'Reilly has been elected first president of WAN-Ifra, and Paul Ramadge, editor-in-chief of ‘The Age’, Melbourne, has joined the board of the World Editors Forum in elections held in the peak publishers event in Hyderabad, India.
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Apocalypse now: Digital ad revenue will never' replace print, says WAN-Ifra
At no time in the foreseeable future will digital advertising revenues replace those lost to print, making the search for new business models – including paid-for online access for news – a pressing concern for the news publishing industry, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-Ifra) says in its annual world press trends update.
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PrintCity signs Copenhagen Communiqué
The PrintCity Alliance has signed the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change, calling for "an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crises facing the world today".
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What do we do about Google? The ‘Great Debate’ moves to Hyderabad
What do we do about Google? Applaud our gains in web site traffic? Develop closer partnerships with Google and their competitors? Launch our own search engines and collective news portals? Lobby to change or enforce copyright laws online? Sue - or encourage anti-trust cases? What DO we do about Google?
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Diversify: ‘Orange County’ publisher Horne joins Hyderabad congress
Terry Horne, the publisher of the Orange County Register in the USA who believes the future of newspapers lies in hyperlocal news, increased web offerings and premium content in print, has joined the programme for the World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Hyderabad, India, from 30 November to 3 December next.
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Productivity projects warm vendors on IfraExpo's chilly final day
The four-degree temperature and a fluffy white precipitation the locals would hardly grace with the word ‘snow’ may or may not have been a factor, but IfraExpo went out quietly today, even though the closing tally of 6700 visitors officially “exceeded expectations”, writes Peter Coleman.
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Focus moves to digital on IfraExpo's second day
Focus on day two of the IfraExpo in Vienna moved predictably from heavy metal to digital print as a couple of German youngsters launched a new concept which may have a part in the future of newspaper publishing, writes Peter Coleman.
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Ifra's cross media winners focus on branding
Ifra’s annual checklist of the world’s best cross media publishers was presented on the second day of the Vienna expo, with winners of the fourth XMA Cross Media Awards shown in a special feature area at the show.
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Dainik Jagran's local story at world newspaper summit
Secrets from what is said to be the world’s highest read daily newspaper – with a certified print audience of an astonishing 54.5 million – will be among the ’local’ stories to be told at the WAN summit meetings in India in December.
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Deal goes through with Goss's Chinese partner
Goss and its Chinese partner SEC have announced that Shanghai Electric (Group) Corporation became the second largest shareholder in Goss International Corporation yesterday, completing a transaction initiated in June.
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Learning from the best at IfraExpo next month
Outstanding examples of applications in practice – setting the scene for an exchange between colleagues from all over the world – will be a particlar distinguishing characteristic of this year's IfraExpo (October 12-15 in Vienna).
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HP teams up to exploit its inkjet web technologies
The HP colour inkjet web press – central to the company’s push for the digital newspaper printing market – gets its commercial launch at the US Print 09 show this week, along with the announcement of new alliances and technology.
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Supporting Literacy Day is supporting your future!
It's International Literacy Day today (September 8) and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is making an eight-part serialised story available to newspapers to help parents and teachers instil a love of reading in young people.
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manroland keeps jobs for the boys (and girls) flowing
When talk so frequently is about press manufacturers shedding jobs, manroland has reason to be upbeat about the 120 young people who will start their careers with the company in 2009, among them more than two dozen apprentices.
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KBA, TPH in marketing alliance ahead of Ifra India
A timely strategic alliance sees KBA and Indian single-width press maker The Printers House promoting each others products in time for the IfraIndia event this month. TPH will promote KBA web presses on the Indian sub continent while KBA promotes TPH’s 2/1 Orient web presses in the rest of the world.
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Licensing deal gives North America its own Pagemasters
Australian editorial production house Pagemasters has licensed its technology and knowhow to North American agency the Canadian Press in a deal which will lead to services it pioneered being offered in North America.
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Chapter 11 filing dashes Web Press Corp hopes
Washington-headquartered single-width press manufacturer Web Press Corporation has filed for Chapter 11 protection under the US bankruptcy code. The company makes the Web Leader press range and is best known for its QuadStack compact four-colour tower, frequently installed as an add-on to presses such as the Goss Community.
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Rhine tour is pre-IfraExpo colour quality opportunity
A pre-Ifra study tour in October will visit the European sites of successful members of the organisation’s International Newspaper Color Quality Club, providing an opportunity to find out about their techniques and technology.
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Savings abound as KBA inks in on Ipex floorplan
A 777 m2 stand booking from German press maker KBA is among the latest for Ipex 2010, where organisers say all major industry players, covering the complete print production process, are currently represented on the floorplan.
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Ifra takes INCQC tutorials on tour
One-day tutorials being held in Germany (June and October), India (July), Austria (October), Malaysia and Indonesia (both November) will help newspapers prepare for the next round of Ifra’s International Newspaper Color Quality Club competition.
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Extended deadline for Ifra's XMA crossmedia awards
Ifra has extended until June 15, the deadline for registering for its XMA Cross Media Awards. Newspaper publishing companies interested in participating can still register on the website www.ifra.com/xma and submit their applications for this year’s topic “cross-media branding and design”.
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Newsprint giant AbitibiBowater keeps trading in Chapter 11
Papermaker AbitibiBowater has gone into US ‘Chapter 11’ bankruptcy protection and its Canadian equivalent, after deciding it had no viable alternatives to previously-announced refinancing proposals for its Bowater and Abitibi-Consolidated subsidiaries.
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Abu Dhabi takeover of MAN Ferrostaal is confirmed
IPIC’s Purchase of a majority share of MAN Ferrostaal and its subsidiaries by Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company has taken effect following approval by international antitrust authorities, with an option agreed on the sale of the remainder.
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How to get the new gxpress.net newsletter and RSS feeds
Wow! We launched the first GXpress email newsletter yesterday ... and what a response we got! The best show around was watching the stats as newspaper people in Australia and New Zealand, South East Asia and around the world received, opened and clicked on stories in the newsletter.
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Clouds bring a silver lining to MediaXchange
While the themes in the MediaXchange conference rooms had a lot to do with dealing with the storms and darkness dealt by the global economic downturn, exhibitors were spruiking a different kind of Cloud as a less-expensive way of keeping up with technology.
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manroland looks to 52 million Euro operating profit
manroland says it expects to make an operating profit (EBIT) of 52 million Euro (A$103 million) despite the difficult economic climate and a clear deterioration in the business situation in the second half of 2008. Last year's result had been 125 million Euro.
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Redrawn and quartered: Sizer out as ECRM looks to reenergise business
ECRM vice president Derek Sizer is to leave the CTP and imaging company in a global reorganisation of sales divisions. Joseph Chevalier retains vice president Asia Pacific, with Doug Barr taking on the other three geographical segments of North America, Latin America, and Europe/Middle East/Africa.
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PrintCity heartsearching over an Ifra breakfast
Given the very democratic forum-style seating arrangement at its IfraExpo press breakfast, it was easy to interact with members of the PrintCity consortium and tempting to criticise their sometime overt partiality, writes Peter Coleman.
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IfraExpo’s no-depression zone
You wouldn’t call IfraExpo a depression-free zone … but at least negativity in Amsterdam appears to be limited to only one of the three-and-a-half RAI halls.
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Private equity firm buys Megtec Systems
US-headquartered manufacturer of web press pasters and heatset dryers Megtec Systems will become a standalone company following its sale to private equity firm Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners.
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IfraExpo: Tulips in October
A focussed conference programme and exhibitor developments should make a visit to IfraExpo in Amsterdam worthwhile
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Goss opens RSVP to a wider market
Having made its GossRSVP interactive media system available for advertisers and publishers over the whole of the USA, Goss is now ready to extend the service to Australasia.
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