Europe

Rafael Peuela Torres, executive vice-president and main board member of Manroland Sheetfed, talks to Darryl Danielli

KBA has signed orders for more than 60 Rapida presses at the show, comprising "several hundred" printing and coating units overall.

Printing and finishing firm Acculink has upgraded to Scodix's S74 B2+ digital embosser, launched at Drupa (Hall 4, stand B31), to replace its Scodix 1200 press.

UPM (Hall 6, stand D60) expects to recover almost 1,000 tonnes of paper after being awarded the contract to recycle printing waste paper for the second consecutive Drupa.

Berry Wiersum, chief executive at paper manufacturer Sappi Europe talks to Thomas Fasold

Is Fujifilm's Mark Stephenson the ultimate superfan when it comes to the Drupa song?

Kodak (Hall 5, stand F9) and Ryobi (Hall 17, stand C1) have signed a worldwide deal at drupa to offer the "first fully integrated hybrid sheetfed press".

Strålfors has signed a 2.4m Drupa deal with Canon subsidiary Océ (Hall 9, stand C39) to complete a 6m spend on its ColorStream 3900 inkjet web press, which was launched last week.

Christoph Stehmann, Pitney Bowes vice-president of document messaging technologies talks to Darryl Danielli

Fuji Xerox has become the latest company to announce a wide-format printer powered by Memjet's waterfall printhead technology.

Xerox (Hall 8b, stand A62) has sealed an array of international sales deals at Drupa, with customers from the Middle East and Russia among the big spenders.