Drupa

Agfa Graphics has posted double-digit percentage falls in EBIT and EBITDA in its second quarter results despite a small increase in turnover.

The Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) is banking on home advantage at Graph Expo to avoid the "poor" attendance from North American printers that it noted at Drupa in Germany earlier this year.

Finishing equipment manufacturer Autobond has appointed agent Binderhaus to represent the company in Germany.

Creasestream, the creasing equipment manufacturer and sister company to Tech-ni-fold, expects to sell more than 250 Creasestream Minis in the US in its first year of release alone.

Finishing manufacturer Mathias Bauerle (MB) was two weeks away from running out of money when it filed for bankruptcy on 23 July.

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) more than doubled its second quarter pre-tax profit following strong double digit growth in both its Industrial Inkjet and Productivity Software business units.

Heidelberg has hailed its "strongest start" to a financial year since 2008 after recording a surge in incoming orders in its preliminary first quarter results.

Diversify to survive was the message from print guru Frank Romano, who spoke at a PrintWeek event last Wednesday (July 4), entitled 'Frankly Speaking'.

Autobond has revealed that some of the 7m religious postcards it finished on its stand at Drupa will be handed out during the Olympics by Christian organisations including the Salvation Army.

While more than 100m of Drupa orders, mainly for batch-produced sheetfed offset presses, will take time to impact, preliminary half-year figures reveal overall group order intake is down 114m.