Events

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.

Océ has teamed up with cutting table manufacturer Zünd for a series of open house events designed to show visitors how to open up new business opportunities within wide-format print.

Heidelberg's restructuring programme has contributed to a 138m (112m) pre-tax loss in the last quarter of its financial year 2011/12, resulting in 229m pre-tax loss for the full year.

The theme at this year's IPIA conference, named 'Don't sit down - I've moved your chair', was change.

The London Festival of Photography has launched in the capital with support from sponsors including Colourhouse and paper supplier Antalis McNaughton.

CtP manufacturer Lscher has said it generated a wealth of "promising new prospects" during last month's Drupa show in Dsseldorf.

Bugle Communications and Paddy Power have installed a 30m statue of England manager Roy Hodgson on the white cliffs of Dover.

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has said its recent open days have resulted in customers placing "some significant orders" with the wide-format distributor.

Goss International has declared Drupa a success after taking orders for 11 web presses at the show, although none of those were from the UK.

Canon has called its presence at last month's Drupa a "great success" after making 390 press sales to EMEA, including 32 machines to UK customers.

CPI director general David Workman is calling for a five-year moratorium on government regulations across the paper industry.