Josh succeeds Jonathan Tame, who has led Two Sides since 2014. During Jonathans tenure, Two Sides has developed into a globally recognised initiative promoting the sustainable attributes of print, paper and paper-based packaging, with activities across Europe and North and South America.

Indian packaging specialist Canpac Trends continues its dynamic growth trajectory unabated and is stepping up its close partnership with Koenig & Bauer. By signing the contract for a new Rapida 106, the company is investing in its tenth sheetfed offset press from the German manufacturer within ten years. The seven-colour press with coating tower and complete UV package will be installed at the Tirupur plant. As part of the capacity expansion, the press currently operating there will be relocated to another site.

GEW, the UK-based UV curing systems manufacturer, has announced the launch of its groundbreaking EOS power and control platform, which rolls out at LOUPE Americas in Chicago this week.

Inkcups announces the launch of its newest laser plate-maker, the Cobalt Pro+. Replacing the Cobalt PRO, Inkcups highest wattage laser available in the Inkcups Cobalt line, the new Cobalt Pro+ is up to 20% faster, enabling users to boost productivity, reduce turnaround times, and take on more work without compromising quality.

Erbi Group, a specialist printing group providing end-to-end production solutions for the pharmaceutical sector, has installed a Screen Truepress JET 520HD Mono at one of its production facilities to expand its pharmaceutical leaflet capabilities with digital inkjet printing, supported by fully integrated post-press inspection and automated defect rejection.

Duraluxe today introduced a new sublimation-ready steel panel designed to make printed displays changeable. Its magnet-receptive surface lets print providers move beyond a single, static metal print and create products customers can add to, rearrange, personalize and update over time.

Kornit Digital Ltd. announced that Portuguese fashion manufacturer Meamstyle has expanded its digital textile production capabilities with the installation of two Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS systems. With this, Meamstyle is now able to better support premium-quality garment manufacturing, agile fashion production, and scalable digital printing services for European fashion brands.

Solimar Systems, Inc. announced that its joint implementation with Compu-Mail, LLC and Hansen360 has received the Solution of the Year, Honorable Mention, category of the 2026 CXMPA Industry Awards. The cXm Professionals Association (CXMPA) announced the recipients on September 8, recognizing technologies and real-world implementations that deliver measurable operational impact across print, mail, and customer communications.

For an industry built on precision, print and packaging has an uncomfortable secret. The colour you approve may not be the colour I see. Not metaphorically. Literally.

Color-Logic is pleased to announce that GAM Graphics and Marketing (GAM), a Color-Logic Certified Printer based in Sterling, Virginia, has adopted the Visualis3R visualization solution. Visualis3R, distributed exclusively by Color-Logic, enables GAM clients to preview, in remarkable detail, how metallics, foils, and print embellishments will appear on their projects before productionbringing unprecedented confidence and creativity to every job.

UPM Specialty Materials has extended its barrier paper technology, first introduced in the companys packaging papers, to label face papers for the first time. The new grade, UPM Asendo 80, applies that grease-resistance technology to labelling without the use of PFAS.

Kavalan, has launched The Green Reality, a new podcast series that looks beyond environmental slogans, selective statistics and familiar sustainability narratives to examine the evidence, complexities and wider consequences behind some of todays biggest environmental questions.Topics across the ten-part series include carbon emissions and removal, air pollution, resource scarcity, plastics and waste, Life Cycle Assessment, and the wider economic, societal and geopolitical factors that shape environmental decision-making.

A clear signal for Augsburg as a business location: The Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper inaugurated its new rotary newspaper press a Koenig & Bauer Commander CL 42 on Monday. Since the projects launch in September 2024, a completely new, state-of-the-art production infrastructure has been created, ranking among the most efficient and advanced systems on the market.