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Free online registration for Fespa 2015 is now open at www.fespa2015.com. Those registering before 17 May 2015 will save the €70 on-site admission fee.

Icon delivered the branding, functional signage and wayfinding for the AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015.

Sappi has opened its new Paper Lab, another step in the expansion of its speciality papers division where the company spent around 61 million Euro rebuilding the PM 2 paper machine that was officially launched last year.

InfoTrends is developing an advisory service called Customer Engagement Technologies to provide technology and best practices for enterprises to execute engagement strategies.

Fespa’s ‘Not for Profit’ initiative is funding four new regional congresses this year, but the UK will miss out, though Peter Kiddell of the Fespa UK Association said it will run a ‘Textile Printing Now’ conference in Huddersfield in October part funded by the same initiative.

CDi Yorkshire (Creative and Digital Industries) – an initiative match funded by the BPIF – is running a Visual Media Conference at The Rose Bowl in Leeds on 31 March. The intention is to deliver insight into marketing communications trends and is aimed at those in the creative, print and packaging industries.

Mimaki is launching a small-format flatbed cutting plotter for packaging and prototyping.

“There is growing demand for on-demand production of prototypes and small lots, both for products and their packaging,” said Mike Horsten, general manager marketing EMEA at Mimaki Europe.

Paper and packaging distributor Antalis has made “a sizeable contribution” to the PassIt! fundraising campaign, part of the PrintIt! education initiative.

Dan Rogerson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the minister responsible for water, resource and environmental management and forestry, got a positive message about the environmental impact of print when he visited KCS Trade Print’s site at Launceston recently.

A new interiors event called ‘House’ is to run alongside the ‘Spirit of Summer Fair’ on

17 – 20 June at Olympia, London. Aimed at the consumer and prosumer, it will feature presentations, one-to-one consultations and room sets.

Your Print Specialists (YPS) has been appointed as a learning partner at Studio West Newcastle after installing a Mimaki CJV30-130 wide-format inkjet printer and laser-engraver into the ‘project-based learning’ school, where YPS is also set to mentor and give the youngsters insight into the wide-format printing industry.

SGS UK, an inspection, verification, testing and certification company, has been approved by the Institute for Collaborative Working (ICW) as a certification body for BS 11000 - the world’s first standard for collaborative business relationships.

New from Matan is ID Backprint that consists of a printing device that prints all the pertinent file and job information on the back side of the media at the same time as the actual image is being printed on the front side, so that when the margins are trimmed and the image is cut by means of the Matan Inline Finishing system, the individual prints can still be identified.

Perspex Distribution Limited (PDL) will use Sign and Digital UK 2015 to debut its Transprint digital media range. It also has new products for large-format flatbed printers, including Palfoam Anti-Static (AS) PVC foam range.