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DRUPA: Exhibitors count the order millions despite reduced attendance
DRUPA 2012 has closed its doors with upbeat reports from many of its 1850 exhibitors but a relative dearth of new newspaper equipment business.
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EU newsprint wins Ecolabel status
Newsprint has been awarded the European Union’s Ecolabel status, after what one maker describes as “several years of consultation”.
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Systems vendor Eidos chosen for Italian business development programme
Newspaper systems developer EidosMedia has been chosen by the Italian stock exchange to take part in a growth scheme for high-potential SMEs based in the country.
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DRUPA: KBA launches its inkjet web, but newspaper applications must wait
While a web-fed KBA digital press is in production at the DRUPA print trade show in Düsseldorf, newspaper publishers will have to wait their turn for optimised kit from the German maker.
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DRUPA: manroland has its customer for digital newspaper folding technology
The scene is set for today’s DRUPA opening in Düsseldorf with upbeat presentations from two of the industry’s traditional giants and the announcement of an innovative digital newspaper project.
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In a ‘no growth’ economy, www.gxpress.net quadruples traffic in a year
GXpress Magazine’s four-year-old website is winning friends and influencing newspaper people throughout the world.
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WSJ in year-long digital print test with TKS
A one-year test agreement sees production of some copies of the ‘Wall Street Journal Asia’ printed digitally on TKS equipment in Osaka, Japan.
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X-Rite, Pantone to join Esko and Videojet in Danaher
Danaher Corporation – which owns inkjet marking company Videojet and packaging software developer Esko – is to buy X-Rite, the densitometry and colour measurement company which also owns Pantone.
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IPI, WAN-Ifra extend cooperation on independent media and press freedom
The International Press Institute and the WAN-Ifra have agreed to increase cooperation on projects to benefit press freedom and the development of independent media worldwide.
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The best of times – and the worst – are in newspapers, says Adicio report
If you’ve resisted the temptation to fell trees, milk cows or go to war, you might be encouraged to know that newspaper journalism has been ranked one of the ‘worst jobs’ in the USA.
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NTU and WAN-Ifra team for Singapore Newsplex
Asia is to get its own Newsplex under an agreement between Nanyang Technological University and WAN-Ifra.
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Norske Skog sells Follum and Bio Bio mills
Paper maker Norske Skog has sold its closed Follum mill to Viken Skog, and will sell the Bio Bio newsprint mill in South America to a consortium of Chilean investors.
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New president puts her mark on HP with printer group ‘realignment’
Computer and printer maker HP – which invested billions in the developments of inkjet web press technology – is merging its two main businesses as the head of the imaging and printing group leaves.
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Service providers take ppi Media from manroland administrator
German media production service provider the Evers-Frank Group has bought the former manroland AG interest in ppi Media, becoming its principal shareholder.
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KBA ‘bucking the trend’ to single-digit profit
German press maker KBA says it “bucked the industry trend” last year by trading to its third consecutive pre-tax profit.
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Resolution condemns violence against Pakistani press
WAN-Ifra has called on Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari to end violence and intimidation against media professionals and take strong measures to end impunity in Pakistan, which it says is the world’s most dangerous country for journalists.
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Guardian's 'Three Little Pigs': Selling the sizzle (video)
Citizen journalism gets a boost from UK daily ‘The Guardian’ in an expensive but strangely endearing new video, launched yesterday. If you’ve missed it so far, see it here.
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No sleaze, but new Sun fills a three-million print slot in London
It might be light on ‘sleaze’ but News International’s new ‘Sun on Sunday’ is a resounding vote of confidence in the power of print… and will help fill a substantial gap at the group's high-tech Broxbourne plant, north of London.
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Langley names trusted lieutenant to head manroland Sheetfed
British investor Tony Langley has brought the lieutenant of his two German businesses out of retirement to head the sheetfed press business he bought from the manroland insolvency administrator.
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manroland maintained web leadership with new orders, says Kuisle
Back, stable, installing preses and taking new orders... The positive message comes from manroland Web Systems sales vice president Peter Kuisle, speaking at the Print City pre-DRUPA briefing near Munich today (writes Peter Coleman).
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Kodak 'at DRUPA in force' despite Chapter 11 restructuring
Kodak will be "in full force" at DRUPA, the company, currently restructuring under America's Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, says.
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Linotype doco gets DVD release date
There's no news of showings in the Asia Pacific, but the 'Linotype: The Film' doco will be out on video this year.
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Norske Skog reports improved quarter: ‘Needs to adapt’ to market
Paper maker Norske Skog says lower newsprint gross earnings outside Europe at the end of last year were the result of lower volumes in Australasia and relatively higher export to South East Asia with lower margins.
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Sale splits ownership of manroland’s Asia Pacific sales organisations
manroland sales organisations in Australasia, Asia and India will be under different ownership following the sale of the insolvent company’s sheetfed business to a UK investor.
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New manroland web business bids for 300 million Euros annual sales
Former web sales vice president of manroland Peter Kuisle has been appointed to a similar position in the new manroland web systems business established this week.
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Film release prompts Linotype stories: Where’s yours? 
Almost everyone who knows what a Linotype is has a story about the once-ubiquitous hot-metal linecasting machine which changed print and newspapers… and virtually disappeared. Lost maybe... but you can help ensure it's not forgotten.
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Carry on: Asia Pacific subsidiaries may escape Kodak restructuring
Subsidiaries of Kodak in the Asia-Pacific are unlikely to be affected by the filing of the parent company and US subsidiaries for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.
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manroland newspaper and web division to join mailroom company Bowe in Possehl group (update)
The Augsburg-based newspaper and web press operations of insolvent German maker manroland is set to be sold to German conglomerate Possehl under a deal approved by creditors yesterday.
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Administrator readies manroland sale proposals for Wednesday creditor meeting
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is decision-day for manroland, with a decision on the sale of the insolvent press manufacturer expected then.
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Albbruck mill closure rounds off UPM’s capacity reduction plan
Papermaker UPM has finalised its plans to reduce production capacity with the announcement that it will close its unprofitable Albbruck paper mill in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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GCG goes as Kodak creates new commercial segment in ‘transformational’ changes
Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group – which serves the newspaper industry with imaging, prepress, CTP, digital print and other technology – has disappeared into a new Commercial Segment under changes the company says will accelerate its digital transformation.
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Baldwin being sold to investment firm, failing a better offer
An agreement to sell Baldwin Technology to investment firm Forsyth Capital Investors gives the quoted press peripherals maker a couple of weeks more to find an alternative purchaser.
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manroland administrator on track for break-up January sale
Under the insolvency declared in November, manroland is looking to the New Year optimistically, but one month at a time.
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Norske Skog sets up financial ‘headroom’ for 2012
Paper maker Norske Skog says new credit arrangements and the sale of its former Union mill will give it financial headroom for the New Year.
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Big four publishers drive merger of PANPA/NPA into new owned Australian peak body
Australia’s four largest newspaper publishers are driving a plan to merge PANPA/Newspaper Publishers’ Association into a new group they will own, based on The Newspaper Works and headed by Tony Hale.
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Joint news design conference organisers bring Errea, Janisch to New Delhi
Javier Errea, the visual journalist who designed award-winning Lisbon newspaper ‘i’ (Lisbon) will be keynote speaker at the first joint WAN-Ifra/SND news design conference in South Asia next month.
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Support manroland: Users rally round as administrator secures finance
Press users in Australia have rallied round to support manroland as the insolvent manufacturer’s administrator has announced that finance for its continued operation has been secured.
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manroland administration ‘could run for years', says Dunwell; technotrans faces Euros2.0 million hit
In Australia, Steve Dunwell managing director of subsidiary manroland Australasia, claimed it was “business as usual” in the region following the parent company filing for insolvency, while admitting future trading will depend on the decisions of the administrator appointed on Friday.
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manroland seeks insolvency plan as takeover talks fail
Press maker manroland has initiated insolvency proceedings and named a provisional administrator after negotiations with a potential investor failed.
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Norske Skog plans mill shutdown to help save group
Corporate management at Norske Skog have told the papermaker’s board it should shut Follum mill – its smallest in Norway – by the end of March.
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S&P takes Norske Skog off its CreditWatch list
Credit rating company Standard & Poor's has taken newsprint maker Norske Skog off its CreditWatch Negative list. The long-term corporate rating is affirmed on B- with a negative outlook.
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Norske Skog advances talks on publication mill sale
Norske Skog is talking to work councils about a deal to sell its Parenco mill and Reparco Group recovered paper business in the Netherlands.
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Bigger loss, but Kodak is making ‘steady progress’ to profit
Kodak says it is making “steady progress” towards profitability, despite a third-quarter loss which blew out to US$222 million.
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UPM closes mill, helps redundant staff into business
Paper maker UPM is to close its Myllykoski paper mill with job cuts affecting almost 400 people.
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Australian newsprint pricing helps Norske Skog to better result
Price increases in Australia and higher sales volumes resulted in “significantly better” financial results for Norske Skog, the newsprint maker says.
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Indian speakers named for paper industry seminar
Speakers from International paper and ITC have joined the programme for RISI’s third Indian seminar.
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Stick-on notes partners to get stuck in, globally
Ferag sister company WRH Marketing has launched a global programme of activities and awards to promote its MemoStick stick-on notes advertising concept.
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Media Corp among world’s top crossmedia sites
Singapore’s Media Corp is among ten top media companies named in this year’s WAN-Ifra XMA Cross Media Awards.
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Compact is like-minded pragmatism from big three press makers
It used to take years for a major press concept to come to market: Announcements at yesterday’s start of the IfraExpo in Vienna demonstrate what can be achieved in only months.
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Kodak statement follows speculation over restructuring
Responding to rumours it says are circulating in capital markets, Kodak has issued a statement saying it is committed to meeting all of its obligations and “has no intention of filing for bankruptcy”.
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Miss Earth, UPM back conference events in Year of Forests (video)
It’s International Year of Forests, and papermaker UPM – together with Miss Earth Nicole Faria – invites you to get involved.
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Nela and EAE team ahead of IfraExpo
Press controls and plate register and management specialists EAE and Nela have signed an agreement to market each other’s colour control systems for offset presses.
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Coming up: IfraExpo opens week of newspaper events
The IfraExpo trade exhibition for news publishing and media returns to Vienna next month in combination with the 63rd World Newspaper Congress and the 18th World Editors Forum.
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DRUPA show hits the road with Manila stopover
A world tour to promote DRUPA 2012 world tour reaches Manila next week in what exhibition organisers say is the start of a crucial phase.
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Catch them young: Lessons in readership win for ‘Jawa Pos’
Winners of a WAN-Ifra contest to recognise innovative newspaper concepts to attract young readers – including Indonesia’s ‘Jawa Pos’ and a predominance of other Asian publishers – will be honoured during the World Newspaper Congress in Vienna next month.
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Bouncing like a BRIC: manroland web orders up a third
Press maker manroland says it benefitted from the economic recovery and continuing strong demand in growth regions to post a 13 per cent rise in orders in the first half of this year.
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Paper maker UPM to cut 1.3 million tonnes of paper capacity
Paper maker UPM is to close two mills and dispose of another as part of moves to cut its production capacity by 1.3 million tonnes.
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M&A company Platinum has growth plans for Quark
It was one of the pioneers of the 1980s desktop publishing revolution, and the company we ‘loved to hate’: Now Quark has been bought by mergers and acquisitions specialist Platinum Equity for an undisclosed sum.
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PIA Intertech star for manroland’s APL robot
Newspaper press automation and workflow systems, UV curing and an innovative printhead for inkjet printing are among this year’s Printing Industries of America InterTech award winners.
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Moody’s downgrades Norske Skog rating, warns it could get worse
Credit ratings agency Moody's has downgraded newsprint manufacturer Norske Skog’s rating from B2 to Caa1, a move the agency says affects about 1.3 billion Euros of rated debt.
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Congress focus on how newspapers find their place in a multimedia world
Rolv Erik Ryssdal, chief executive of Norway-based Schibsted, and Eugen Russ, one of the newspaper industry's most innovative publishers, have joined the programme for the 63rd World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from October 12-15.
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PANPA ‘newspaper of the year’ entrants root for their local teams
More than 1000 entries have been received for this year’s PANPA ‘newspaper of the year’ contest.
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Murdoch sounds NOW death knell: No longer fit to print
News Corporation’s 168-year UK tabloid, the ‘News of the World’ will close this weekend as revelations continue over its involvement in phone-hacking.
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More cuts at KBA as hopes rise for end to Frankenthal strike
KBA is to cut a further 700 staff from factories including Frankenthal, where there are hopes of settling a six-week strike.
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WAN-Ifra 2012 global meetings will support Ukraine press freedom push
With the decision already taken to revert to a separate venue for the World Editors Forum in 2012, WAN-Ifra has announced will move to Kiev, Ukraine, that year.
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Ipex returns to London for 2014
Riding on the back of next year’s Olympic fever, Ipex will return to London in 2014, organisers have announced.
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WEF focusses 'summer university' on hyperlocal media
Starting a local or hyperlocal digital service might seem obvious, but it’s hard to succeed in a publishing field that already has become hyper-competitive in many areas.
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INMA delegates learn what’s working in the newspaper business
The INMA World Congress which closed in New York last week attacked negative myths about newspapers and spun an intriguing future of digital content monetisation, transformation models, and how best to structure advertising sales in the new multi-media environment.
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Accolade for Times of India’s ‘Love Pakistan’ campaign (video)
You may have seen it at Publish Asia in Bangkok; you may not understand what is being said… but you’ll get the message of the ‘Times of India’ campaign which sought to break a 60-year relationship logjam between India and Pakistan.
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Mining the ‘new oil’ of today
Gerd Leonhard, the man the ‘Wall Street Journal’ calls “one of the leading media futurists in the world,” has joined the programme of the upcoming WAN-Ifra International Newsroom Summit, and will provide his insights during a keynote presentation.
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Pulp and paper industry dates
Forest products information provider RISI will hold its 12th Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference from June 13–15 in Shanghai, China.
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Appeals court confirms decision in Quad/Tech-QI litigation
Patent litigation between Quad/Tech and QI Press controls rolls on with a US appeals court affirming the decision of a lower court.
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Brazilians shave tablet daily costs to near-breakeven
A new tablet-only digital newspaper for Brazil takes hints from Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Daily’ without the big-budget production or subscription cost.
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Asia Pacific sales help KBA to earnings leap
German newspaper press maker KBA says a leap in earnings, sales and new orders has helped the company to a pre-tax profit of 15.3 million Euros. New orders jumped by 45.4 per cent leading to a 31.6 per cent increase in the order backlog.
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‘Better times around the corner’ manroland says
Press maker manroland says it expects a recovery this year and ‘normal’ sales in 2012, following a 15 per cent increase in orders last year.
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Norske Skog sells US sales arm to CellMark
Norske Skog is to sell its US sales company to CellMark, which will in turn form a new marketing and distribution company for the USA, Canada and Mexico.
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One Pass explained as Google joins WAN-Ifra's London programme
Google One Pass, which enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content, will be examined at Digital Media Europe, WAN-Ifra's new London conference next month.
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Print remains advertising force: World Ad Conference
The 21st World Newspaper Advertising Conference opened in Malta yesterday with what might seem to some to be a revolutionary concept: Print will continue to be a unique advantage in the advertising world for many years to come, despite rhetoric to the contrary about all things digital.
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Middle East 'at media growth tipping point' – WAN-Ifra speakers
With a young population, growing advertising market and with hope of new found freedom, the Middle East newspaper industry is set to take off.
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Australian Lawrence named for print impact ISO working group
Environmental expert Phillip Lawrence is among members of a new ISO working group to help set standards over the environmental impact of print.
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‘Beyond the Printed Word’ merged to new digital media event
WAN-Ifra has rolled its ‘Beyond the Printed Word’ and Mobile Media Day into a new three-day ‘Digital Media Europe’ event.
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Maltese moneymakers set to take the tablets
With the rapid rise of the iPad and other tablets as publishing platforms, WAN-Ifra has built a session on tablet advertising, ‘the new game’, into its 21st World Newspaper Advertising Conference.
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Hop to Dubai for cross-platform ad ideas
Catch the direct flight from Sydney or Bangkok and you can be in Dubai for WAN-Ifra’s sixth Middle East Conference in next to no time.
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Goss gets agreement on French job cuts
Following the recent closure of its press assembly plant in Nantes, Goss International is to cut the workforce at its other French factory in Montataire.
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Maltese date to make the most of internet advertising
Joseph Plummer, a co-author of ‘The Online Advertising Playbook’, which focuses on the emergence of the internet as a marketing platform, has joined the programme of the 21st World Newspaper Advertising Conference and Expo, to be held in Malta on February 24- 25 next.
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manroland moves forward with ‘strategic reorientation’
Press maker manroland says it has taken the next step in its strategic reorientation, with agreements with staff and works representatives.
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French cooperation spawns new newsroom research centre
WAN-Ifra is to establish a new centre for newsroom innovation, training and research for the newsroom of the future in partnership with two french universities.
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Workflow, training high on list for new product developers
Newspaper managers are looking for workflow solutions to ease their way into profitable new digital products, but don’t see cutting staff as a priority.
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Now manroland joins Océ in inkjet market entry
Press maker manroland – which has had a relationship on the technology with Kodak – and its fellow German company, digital systems vendor Océ Printing Systems are to cooperate on inkjet-based digital printing solutions.
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Who goes out first? You or your newspaper…
Will your newspaper see you out? The tantalizing question follows publication of a ‘newspaper extinction timeline’ by Australian author and futurist Ross Dawson.
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74 per cent web order surge helps KBA to pre-tax profit
Third quarter figures show KBA has turned the corner on profitability, with half a billion Euros of work in hand and the prospect of a dividend for shareholders. Best-selling web presses such as the Commander CT and Cortina have contributed to what the company says is a “pretty impressive” result.
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manroland supervisory board approves restructuring plan, jobs cuts
Measures aimed at making manroland strong enough to survive without a merger were approved by an extraordinary meeting of the company’s supervisory board yesterday.
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Balding leaves WAN-Ifra after 25 years
Timothy Balding, former WAN chief executive and global affairs director general of the merged WAN-Ifra is leaving after a quarter of a century with the organisation.
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Congress and WEF to join IfraExpo in Vienna
Both IfraExpo and the World Newspaper Congress/World Editors Forum will return to Vienna in October next year, WAN-Ifra has decided.
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Degrees of faith in print in IfraExpo’s closing days
As the 9000-odd participants in this year’s Ifra Expo prepare to return to their newspaper offices, a momentous thought is being contemplated in a remote corner of one of the Hamburg halls (writes Peter Coleman). What if there were no more newspapers?
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Press and systems covered as IfraExpo exhibitors show optimism
A new high-speed single-width press, a systems component to write summaries for journalists, and a plethora of iPad and tablet publishing solutions were among the innovations unveiled at IfraExpo in Hamburg yesterday.
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WAN-Ifra crossmedia wins for Singapore, Malaysia
Malaysian and Singaporean publishers are among winners in this year's WAN-Ifra XMA cross media awards, presented in Hamburg this evening.
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Region adds strength to DRUPA’s ‘trend reversal’
There are strong hopes for DRUPA 2012 following strong demand for exhibition space from Asian vendors.
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UPM in talks over publication mills deal
UPM has confirmed that it is engaged in discussions with Finnish publication paper company Myllykoski Group about a deal over its operations in Finland, Germany and the USA.
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manroland calls for check on Votra commission payments
German press maker manroland says it has discovered ‘irregularities’ in sales commission payments and has called for a full investigation of specific cases involving ts Swiss subsidiary Votra SA.
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San Francisco to host world readership event
San Francisco is the venue ofWAN-Ifra's 12th International Readership Conference & Expo, which will present the latest newspaper strategies to satisfy loyal readers while attracting new audiences, in print, online and on mobile devices.
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Region shares honours in ‘young reader’ contest
The ‘South China Morning Post’ and the ‘Straits Times’ were among winners and Melbourne’s ‘The Age’ gained a special mention in this year’s WAN-Ifra ‘world young reader’ newspaper of year competition.
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Roussel joins next week's 'newsroom summit' line-up
Edward Roussel, digital editor of the UK's Telegraph Media Group is the latest speaker to join the line-up for WAN-Ifra's ninth International Newsroom Summit, September 8-9.
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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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More ad dollars, while circulations stay the same, says WAN-Ifra report
Advertising revenues are set to increase, while circulation stays “relatively stable”: That’s the good news in a survey released by WAN-Ifra at its Publish Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur today.
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KBA 39 per cent ahead as industry 'perks up'
Even without major European newspaper press sales, KBA’s sales results are well ahead of last year’s, with a 39 per cent increase in group order intake.
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Pulp and paper influences: Nature and the iPad in RISI’s top ten
Who or what had the greatest influence on the global pulp and paper industry? Forest products industry information provider RISI includes Steve Jobs and the natural power behind the Chile earthquake in the top ten of its 2010 Power List.
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Multimedia initiatives beckon in Indian study tour
A WAN-Ifra study tour in advance of the Ifra India conference in September will visit some of the fast-developing country’s most successful newspaper sites.
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Why mobile news will change the news business
Moving the rescheduled World Editors Forum to the same venue as the IfraExpo will bring ‘theory and practice, experience and technology’ together, organisers say.
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NYT’s Sulzberger joins WAN-Ifra’s newsroom summit
Chairman and publisher of the ‘New York Times’ Arthur Sulzberger Jr has joined the programme of WAN-Ifra’s 9th International Newsroom Summit, to be held in London from September 8-9.
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Nordson UV buy takes Baldwin into new curing markets
Baldwin Technology is to buy Nordson’s graphic arts UV business in a deal expected to be completed by the end of this month.
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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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WAN-Ifra adds NYT, BBC to French summer university and takes to to India
Fiona Spruill, web newsroom editor at the 'New York Times' and Matthew
Eltringham – assistant editor of interactivity at the BBC – have joined the
programme for the WAN-Ifra's 'summer university' seminar from July 5-7 in St. Paul de Vence on the French Riviera.
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Turning Arab governments free press talk to action
The challenges and conflicts between what Arab governments might say and do about press freedom and democracy are being addressed in the 4th Arab Free Press Forum, which opened yesterday.
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Normal production restored at Norske Skog Bio Bio in Chile
Norske Skog's mill in Bio Bio in Conception, Chile, is back in production, after being hit by an earthquake in February.
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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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Shanghai Electric takes up option on the rest of Goss
Shanghai Electric (Group) Corporation has announced that it will buy the rest of Goss International next month, exercising an option established when it became a shareholder in the company last September.
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Lebanon congress called off, forum postponed as host pulls cash
WAN-Ifra has called off the World Newspaper Congress – due to have been held in Beirut next month – and will postpone the World Editors Forum to its Hamburg IfraExpo event in October.
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ProPublica founder on new ways to fund quality journalism
Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief and founder of ProPublica, the non-profit investigative newsroom that just won a Pulitzer Prize in the United States, has joined the programme of the World Editors Forum.
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New WAN-Ifra report addresses alternative revenue models
New business opportunitites and income sources to offset the shoirtfall between digital media and traditional revenues are discussed in a new report from WAN-Ifra’s ‘Shaping the Future of the Newspaper’ project.
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Orlando’s mediaXchange and the ‘muchness’ of a surreal industry
There was a strong sense of the Lewis Carroll surreal at mediaXchange, the NAA conference which closed in Orlando, Florida, last week (writes Peter Coleman).
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It's off: No manroland Wifag purchase
manroland and WIFAG say they have called off negotiations.
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iPad demands attention at Orlando’s mediaXchange
Screaming distance from Sea World, a brief space in time from the Epcot Center and, yes, a sip out of Cocoa too, the NAA’s mediaXchange event opens in Orlando, Florida tomorrow (Monday).
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QI claims round one victory in patent case
Dutch systems developer QI Press Controls says it has won the first round in its defence against US court action by rival Quad/Tech.
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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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Catch culture, change and controversy as WEF tackles ‘tablet year’ in Lebanon
The emergence of the iPad, tablets and e-readers as viable news platforms holds great promise for future news delivery – but how do news companies get the most out of them? The World Editors Forum is dedicating its annual conference, and a series of online seminars, to answering the question.
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The future of publishing... back to front
Everyone's pondering the future of publishing... but how do you get the message across? Here's another way of looking at the issue.
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Redesign pays off as ‘Handelsblatt’ goes to stitched tabloid
German business daily ‘Handelsblatt’ has reported double-digit circulation increases following a switch from broadsheet to tabloid last November.
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'Green' publishing focus for Salzburg print summit
WAN-Ifra will devote a large part of its Printing Summit 2010 in Salzburg next month to the issue of ‘green’ publishing and how to adapt business needs to environmental concerns.
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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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WEF 'webinar' tackles multimedia at FIFA World Cup
A World Editors Forum 'webinar' next week looks at accreditation for the World Cup and other sports events.
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Force majeure notice after Chile quake stops mill... and UPM stops in Finland
Norske Skog Bio Bio has issued a notice of force majeure (act of God) after production at its mill in Concepción, Chile, was stopped after the earthquake on February 27.
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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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Back to Vienna: IfraExpo makes it a date for 2011
Satisfaction with last year’s show and venue has led to a decision to take Ifra Expo back to Vienna in 2011.
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Sound of better print will be music in Salzburg
A new event, the Printing Summit, is being launched by WAN-Ifra in Salzburg, Austria, in April.
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‘Light in dark’: WAN-Ifra takes newspaper congress to Beirut
First speakers have been announced for WAN-Ifra’s World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from June 7-10.
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Nela gives and receives in US celebration
Cash and other incentives when Nela USA held an open day to celebrate its move to new premises in River Falls, Wisconsin.
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Goss in the US sheetfed business through Shanghai Electric tie-up
Goss is to sell Akiyama sheetfed presses in North America, integrating the regional organisation of the company with which it is associated through China’s Shanghai Electric (Group) Corporation.
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Riess, Balding take WAN-Ifra top jobs: No new Mittelbach role yet
WAN-Ifra has named Christoph Riess as its new group chief executive of the enlarged association, with his WAN predecessor Timothy Balding taking a new role as global affairs director general.
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Ifra Expo set to dock in Hamburg: Fewer days, longer hours
Preparations for this year's 40th Ifra Expo – to be bhelkd in the German port of Hamburg – are gaining momentum.
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Mirror Football joins Paris ‘revenue from sports news’ programme
Matt Kelly, the digital content director of UK publisher Trinity Mirror's national newspaper division, believes that newspaper success on the web doesn't depend on the Googles of the world.
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PrintCity magazine focusses on web press technologies
Hybrid heatset/coldset products from Belgian newspaper printer Roularta feature prominently in the new issue of PrintCity's Webline magazine.
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Goss, manroland back GraphExpo’s newspaper ‘convergence’
Plans for a newspaper pavilion at next October’s Graph Expo in Chicago have the support of major press manufacturers including Goss and manroland.
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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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DHL's Higgs takes hosted digital solution to deliver titles
DHL subsidiary Higgs International Publishing Logistics will use Pressmart’s technology to power on-demand digital editions for its publisher customers.
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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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Canon set to buy into digital newspapers with Oce acquisition
Japanese imaging and copier company Canon has announced plans to acquire Oce, taking it into the emerging digital newspaper printing market.
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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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Glossy 'San Francisco Chronicle’ important first for USA papers
Having quietly switched production to its new contract print site in July this year, the ‘San Francisco Chronicle’ will become America’s first glossy daily on Monday (November 9).
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Chinese contingent 'rockets' for Ipex launch pad
A record 35 Chinese manufacturers will exhibit at Ipex in Birmingham, UK next year (May 18-25), accounting for more than 1600 m2 of floor space.
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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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Which way are we pointing: O'Reilly's invitation to IfraExpo
Orientation is now more important than ever, WAN-IFRA president Gavin O’Reilly says in an invitation to newspaper publishers to attend this year's IfraExpo.
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Second HP inkjet web goes to US printer
HP has completed its second installation of the Inkjet Web Press it showed at DRUPA last year.
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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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We fell less than other Germans, KBA claims
KBA says its sales of web presses in the last six months dropped by almost a quarter, but reckons it is doing better than other German manufacturers.
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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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News that attracts young readers draws awards
How do you motivate the readers of tomorrow? Perhaps you could learn a thing from the publishers of 'Zero Hora' of Brazil and the Exeter (UK) 'Express & Echo' ...
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technotrans plans new sales operations after move to Hong Kong hub
technotrans has launched its new regional headquarters in Hong Kong, consolidating Asia Pacific business activities and centralising administration and other key support services for companies in the region under one roof.
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Baldwin to sell QI colour rego to Japanese newspapers
Baldwin is to sell and support QI Press Controls’ colour register and press control equipment in Japan in a deal unique to the Dutch technology company.
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Press assembly is beauty in the eye of the beholder
Pretty as a picture? The stark industrial environment of manroland's press assembly halls is hardly the setting for an artists' colony.
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Pioneer and Prosper: Kodak looks for colour Stream sites
Kodak is looking for ‘pioneers’ and ‘leaders’ to take on its Stream inkjet technology, now branded Kodak Prosper, in full colour applications.
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Together again: Ifra and WAN announce a 'necessary merger'
Ifra and the World Association of Newspapers have announced a “necessary merger” to form WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers from next month.
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Weissner, Hultberg appointed Baldwin global vice presidents
Changes at the top of Baldwin Technology see the appointment of two new global vice presidents – Steffen Weisser for operations and Peter Hultberg sales and marketing – effective from next month.
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No budget? If it's the French Riviera, you might like to reconsider ...
Can’t wait until October for Ifra’s study tour? Don’t fancy the Rhine valley? Ifra still has an offer too good to refuse: Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera sounds a great place to ‘Reconsider the future of the newspaper’ … and you can be there before the end of the month.
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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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MatlinPatterson set to sell major Goss holding to Shanghai Electric
Goss International’s Chinese partner in its Shanghai Goss Graphic Systems joint venture has taken advantage of the global financial crisis to stitch together a deal unde which it will become its second largest shareholder.
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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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KBA won't replace manroland at Ferrostaal, press maker says
KBA has moved to "roundly refute" suggestions that it may tie up with MAN Ferrostaal, now that its sales alliance with manroland in Asia, Australia, South Africa, parts of Latin America and eastern Europe is being terminated.
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Exhibitor companies spend a day to prepare for Ipex
Companies with an interest in exhibiting at Ipex next year will be heading to the NEC venue in Birmingham in September for the official 'exhibitor day'.
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KBA learns why the Asia-Pacific web market is so important
It’s doing “better than the average”, four-fifths of business currently underway comes from the web and special press segment, and a sixth of it comes from the Asia-Pacific region.
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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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Goss follows French manufacturing rejig with US job cuts
After reorganising its production facilities in France, Goss International has reduced its US workforce by 170 at facilities in New Hampshire, Illinois and Texas.
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UK’s Press Association takes video news to the wire
UK news agency the Press Association is to launch the country’s first domestic video wire service, with an initial free trial offered to regional newspapers.
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Chaos game makes light of newspaper production
Need a moment’s relief in these tense and troubled times? A UK website which makes a game of newspaper production may be just the thing.
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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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Melbourne, Bangkok ... or Paris: You choose
If neither PacPrint09 or Ifra’s Publish Asia event in late May appeal … how about Paris in springtime?
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Goss's Phil Burke and eight-year-old daughter die in boating accident
Phil Burke, Goss International’s vice president of sales for Latin America, and his eight-year-old daughter, Tara Ann died on Sunday (April 4) following a boating accident near their home in Florida.
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CTP maker Punch takes a $5.8 million hit from court ruling
Prepress and digital print systems developer Punch Graphix has taken a 3.3 million Euros (A$6.4 million) hit as a result of a claim against it to do with a milking systems business it sold.
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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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New names and ‘face’ as Wifag’s Götz Stein hands over sales
Swiss press maker Wifag has shaken up its management team, naming Thomas Doliwa as sales director following the appointment last year Michael Fleissner as chief executive succeeding the retiring Fritz Strasser.
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Goss to concentrate French press manufacturing at Montataire
Goss International is to merge its two manufacturing facilities in France, as part of what it calls continuous efforts to gain efficiency and deliver more value to customers through its worldwide manufacturing platform.
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How to get the gxpress.net newsletter and RSS feeds
Since we launched the first GXpress email newsletter, the response has been phenomenal! Now thousands of people in Australia and NZ, southeast Asia, India and the Gulf – and elsewhere around the world – rely on it for the latest newspaper technology news.
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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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Broader Ifra quality club rules allow more to enter
Ifra has changed the rules of its International Newspaper Color Quality Club to make it less time-consuming and shorten the period between tests and the announcement of the results.
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Another Spanish newspaper printer opts for digital
Spain is building a reputation as a leader in digital newspaper production, with Océ announcing an installation if its inkjet web system at a contract printer.
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Megtec buys Ross Air Systems intellectual property
Megtec Systems, the US manufacturer of pasters and dryers, has bought the intellectual property of Ross Air Systems, the New Jersey company which went into Chapter 7 liquidation in December.
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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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Leadership change at Tensor as Gustafson leaves
Don Gustafson has left US single-width press manufacturer Tensor, of which he was president. The company says chairman Martin Hozjan will take over his responsibilities.
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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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Late birds can be 'early birds' for ifra's Paris print conference
It's a tough time to be organising a conference: Because of the economcal climate Ifra has extended the 'early bird' offer for its News in Printing Conference, 'New paths in a changing world' in Paris (March 5-6).
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Business-fixer moves up to KBA finance role
Helge Hansen, the man who restructured offset press maker Metronic after its acquisition by KBA in 2004, is turning his banking and econmic skills to the parent company.
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Plate specialist Nela buys image processing partner
After working with the company for a year, plate register systems specialist Nela has bought OMCS Optical Measurement’s product range and recruited some of its key people.
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Goss cuts mediaXchange from 2009 newspaper show schedule
Goss International says it won’t be an exhibitor at mediaXchange, the newly-launched US newspaper industry show and the NAA replacement for Nexpo, being held in Las Vegas in March.
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Spend to make money: Innovative ideas from Ifra's European study tour
If you have a lazy 9000 Euros (A$16,790) hanging around – or 6000 Euros if you're an Ifra member and quick – the 2009 study tour season kicks off next month with an enlightening visit to Europe.
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Heidelberg's Mainstream salesman replaces Brown as Goss chief executive
Jochen Meissner – who as sales and marketing vice president of Heidelberg was one of the architects of the German press manufacturer’s premature bid for leadership in the newspaper market at DRUPA and Ifra in 2000 – has replaced Bob Brown as chief executive of Goss International
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Reports a key to Ifra's Christmas wishlist
All I want for Christmas is a newspaper that publishes itself … but I’d settle for being able to publish the one I’ve got to mobiles.
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Agfa Graphics president on ‘disinvesting’, a new Punch OEM deal and weathering a recession
Agfa Graphics has signed a new manufacturing and research partnership with Punch Graphix, extending a relationship which predates the acquisition of Strobbe – developer of its flatbed CTP base – by the OEM specialist.
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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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Verdigris scores leaders for environmental information initiative
Verdigris, a new environmental initiative focussed on the printing industry, has scored Kodak as its founding sponsor, joining Agfa Graphics, Canon Europe, drupa, Fujifilm, HP, Ricoh, Screen and Unity Publishing in their support for the project.
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Users vote www.gxpress.net a hit ... 100,000 times!
'Hits' to the new gxpress.net website topped 100,000 last week, less than three months after the new online resource was launched.
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Green manroland offices sprout a topping-out tree
Press manufacturer manroland has celebrated the ‘topping out’ of the new Augsburg office building on which constrauction started in February.
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manroland backs Shaping the Future of the Newspaper for another term
Press manufacturer manroland has signed up for another four years as strategic business partner of the World Association of Newspapers’ Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project.
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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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KBA cuts capacity following sheetfed slump
Press maker KBA has confirmed what it feared … that it won’t be able to achieve forecast sales and profit targets.
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PrintCity’s sustainability, energy and environment report out now, free
The PrintCity Alliance has made its new 24-page special report ‘Sustainability, Energy & Environment’ available free for internet download.
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Pressmart takes VC partners for global growth
Digital newspaper delivery company Pressmart has lined up US$6 million in funding to drive further growth.
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Developing scenarios for the newspapers of 2017
Imagine the newspaper industry in a decade’s time? Authors of a new Ifra ‘WhereNews’ report reckon they can.
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Goss, manroland settle on sleeve patent litigation
Goss International has announced that it has resolved patent infringement litigation with manroland in the United States involving web-offset press sleeve blanket technology.
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New 'flashlight', special and 'WhereNEWS?' reports from Ifra
Ifra has released new ‘flashlight’ and special reports on its current research topics which include advertising strategies, content management, printing technology projects and Web 3.0.
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