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Judging Complete for Australian National Print Awards |
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 21:27 |
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 Judging for the National Print Awards 2010 was held on Thursday 10 December at the Printing Industries Victorian Offices in Mulgrave.
The team of national judges, led by Chairman Rod Urquhart faced the difficult challenge of awarding a Gold, Silver and Bronze to the 'best of the best' of the top entries from each state in each of the 30 categories.
The 27th National Print Awards event to be held at the Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre on 26 March 2010 will be an impressive display of work from printing companies around Australia who were successful enough to win the top awards at PICA state level.
Chairman of Judges, Rod Urquhart said: "The inaugural 2009 "Best of the Best" judging provided a sound 'template' for the 27th judging-round procedures, and the process went very smoothly. Judges were able to individually assess and then freely discuss the merits of the State gold medallists before deciding as a panel on the placegetters".
Chairman of the 27th National Print Awards, John Wanless added: "We're delighted to see great quality work being presented, with gold medals being won across the breadth of the country.
The judges were full of praise for the entries and we all look forward to seeing who the winners are on Friday 26 March 2010 in Sydney". |
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Thai Gorilla Pulp increases treeless paper production by 250 per cent |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:01 |
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With another technological improvement Thai Gorilla Pulp Ltd. (TGP) increases its volume of production by 250 per cent and reduces its electric power consumption by 30 per cent just the same. With its new technology TGP meets the enormous demand for treeless paper pulp in Asia and assures a lasting improvement of the ecological balance of its pilot factory in Rayong.
As the first company worldwide TGP produces treeless paper pulp that is, as it has been proved regarding to quality and price, of the same standard as paper pulp made of wood. For this treeless paper pulp TGP uses the waste fibres of existing palm-oil plantations, a commodity which comes with harvesting palm-oil trees. This natural and renewable source could cover twelve per cent of the worldwide demand on paper.
This latest technological development allows TGP to increase its volume of production by 250 per cent to 40 tons of treeless paper pulp per day. At the same time the new plant reduces the electric power consumption of the factory by 30 per cent and avoids thousands of tons of carbon dioxide emissions per day because less and less green waste is burned unused. “We again have invested 600.000 dollars to make our factory even more efficient and ecological”, explains the CEO of Thai Gorilla Pulp, Markus Count Matuschka de Greiffenclau. “The demand for our treeless paper pulp is overwhelming; therefore this development was very important. Now we will be able to increase the production of treeless paper pulp continuously by building and licensing new factories.”
Until now, TGP has converted 25 tons of green waste into 16 tons of treeless paper pulp in its pilot factory in Rayong per day. The latest upgrade allows TGP to convert 60 tons of green waste into 40 tons of treeless paper pulp per day. “To produce just these 40 tons of paper pulp one normally would have to cut down more than 2.5 hectares of rain forest a day”, demonstrates de Greiffenclau. “Because our paper pulp waives the commodity wood completely, we now save 7.5 million square meters rain forest per year only with our single pilot factory in Rayong.”
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KBA users from the Czech Republic have founded the Very Smart Offset Printers Club (V.S.O.P.) |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:50 |
Some 40 print experts from companies around the Czech Republic came over to KBA in Radebeul on 18th September to pick up information on the latest developments in sheetfed offset. Their group comprised representatives of long-standing KBA users, for example Model Obaly from Opava and Vychodoceska Tiskarna from Pardubice, Performa users such as Tiskarna K & B from Most, and a number of potential new customers who have to date been printing on presses from other manufacturers.
The official welcome by KBA sales director Sven Strzelczyk and Jens Junker, CEO of KBA-Grafitec, was followed by a presentation given by KBA Radebeul product manager Jens Baumann, who outlined automation concepts geared to reducing makeready times on a sheetfed offset press. By way of cost benefit analyses, he demonstrated how automation modules such as DriveTronic SPC – assuming a corresponding job structure – very quickly pay back the initial higher investment and raise a print company's profitability by enabling more jobs to be handled in a given time.
DriveTronic Plate-Ident even serves three purposes: Plate detection to maximise the process reliability of plate changing, pre registration of the plates on the basis of additionally exposed register marks, and a plausibility check to ensure the correct assignment of plates to jobs and printing units. Such functions – and likewise CleanTronic and its associated components – are the key to considerable savings of time and waste. Electronic suction ring positioning on perfector presses, the video register tool ErgoTronic ACR and a whole range of QualiTronic modules for inline colour control are just a few of the many other automation solutions engineered with this same aim in mind.
After the presentation, the visitors witnessed a series of three job changeovers on an eight-colour Rapida 106 perfector. Jens Baumann and Wolfram Zehnle, head of the KBA customer centre, explained the various automation modules on the running press and showed how DriveTronic SPC, QualiTronic professional and CleanTronic interact to reduce makeready in practice.
Ample time was also set aside to answer questions raised by the visitors.
KBA sales engineer Jörg Henkel devoted a second presentation to the ever more important topic of “Sense Branding & Print”. As has long since been the case in the automobile industry, among airlines and in many other branches of industry, increasing attention is being paid to sensory perceptions in the consumer and luxury goods sector. Advertising materials and packaging are already lent the characteristic and unmistakeable scent, appearance or feel of a particular brand name at the time of their production. The finishing concepts elaborated by KBA permit practically all conceivable “perceptions” to be brought to paper.
Jörg Henkel compared the pros and cons of different coating variants and described some of the surface effects which can be achieved. And, of course, there is no better illustration than a practical demonstration: On a six-colour Rapida 106 with inline coater, the product was first finished with just a UV gloss coating. Then, the previously unused fifth printing unit was engaged to apply an oil-based varnish, creating high-quality and register-true matt-gloss effects (hybrid technology). As a third step, finally, an additional UV effect varnish was used to give the product also a textured surface.
A further highlight of the meeting was the founding of the V.S.O.P. Club CZ as a community to promote the joint interests of KBA users in the Czech Republic. It plans to organise a variety of events to share information with and among KBA users, and in this way to further intensify the exchanges of ideas and experience between the users and the manufacturer.
A tour of the production facility, a visit to the Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden and a social get-together on the River Elbe rounded off the day. |
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Polstar renews relationship with BMJ |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 11:40 |
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Polestar has won two monthly titles from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, re-establishing its relationship with the company after a number of years. The two magazines, Student BMJ and Student BMA News, are being printed at Polestar Colchester, with the majority of Student BMJ also being mailed by the company.
Catherine Harding Wiltshire, Head of Production & Distribution at BMJ Group, says: “We are pleased to be working with Polestar again. They demonstrated a real understanding of our quality and deadline requirements. We have every confidence that the team at Colchester can meet our expectations.”
James Povey, Marketing Director – Polestar UK Print, says: “It is fantastic to be developing a partnership with BMJ Group once again and we are delighted to have been awarded these titles. Polestar Colchester is ideally equipped and has the expertise required to produce and mail high quality, shorter run magazines such as these, and we are extremely pleased to add them to our portfolio.”
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