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Lotus F1 Team, in co-operation with Warner Bros. Pictures, has created a new Mad Max Hybrid to coincide with the launch of film ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. The vehicle was fitted with a skin printed on a Roland Soljet XR-640 using a 3M Wrap Film 1080-M230 Matte Grey Aluminium.

The Shop and Display Equipment Association (SDEA) will be supporting Retail Design Expo when it returns to Olympia, London in March next year. SDEA director Lawrence Cutler will remain on the steering panel that helped shape the inaugural event.

Delta Display has made a £3m spend at Fespa 2015. The investment includes a 5m Durst Rho 512R and two HP Scitex 11000 large-format printers. All three are scheduled for delivery in the summer.

London-based POS specialist SMP Group has placed an order at Fespa 2015 for an Onset R50i.

Mimaki plans to double production capacity having seen a 9.5% increase in turnover according to the chairman, A Ikeda, speaking at Fespa 2015, where the company introduced new printers and also confirmed it would have a 3D machine commercially available in 2016.

BrandIt large-format bespoke printed cardboard furniture founder David Bartlett is looking for UK PSPs to become licensees.

PressOn in Chatham has scooped the ‘People’s Choice of the Year Award’ for its Dazzle Ship Wrap at the 2015 Fespa Awards. It also won the ‘OOH, vehicle decals, printed labels and fleet marking’ category.

Yasar Guvenen has been inaugurated as the 16th president of Fespa, taking over from Augustus Martin founder Lascelle Barrow, who has served in the role of Fespa president since June 2013.

HP has added to the tranche of new printers it announced in April by bringing out the 3.2m wide HP Latex 3500 and 3100 at Fespa 2015, as well as HP Scitex 17000 Corrugated Press. The first 3500 has gone to PressOn, which signed for the printer at Fespa 2015 having beta-tested the printer since last winter and having recently moved from Rochester to a bigger site in Chatham following recent investment in various large-format machines.

Epson continues to target the printed textile market with the introduction of the SureColor SC-F9200 at Fespa 2015. Available as of October, the 1.6m dye-sublimation printer prints up to 720 x 1440dpi and at speeds up to 97m2/hr in draft mode, 56m2/hr in production mode and 27m2/hr in quality mode.

Gandy Digital has taken the wraps off its new UV flatbed inkjet printer, the Gladi8tor.

Italian-based NoeCha has shown Fespa 2015 visitors an updated version of its first large-format flatbed printer, launched in an earlier guise last year. The new version of the 3.2 x 2m NoeCha1 is equipped with a new UV-LED cold cure system designed by the company that originally used mercury lamps, a semi-automatic loading bed, and an easier to access printhead carriage.

At Fespa 2015 Mutoh announced that it will bring out the ValueJet 1624X later in the year as a successor to the VJ-1624.

The European Digital Press Association (EDP), which comprises 20 magazines from Europe, has announced the winners of its ninth annual awards. They are: