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Polish printer DTL has its premises in Porąbka, a community nestled in the foothills of the Beskids near Bielsko-Biała in the south of the country. It is already a longstanding user of sheetfed offset technology from KBA. The latest investment was a Rapida 75 with five printing units, coater and perfecting after the second unit. It replaced a Performa 66 and has lent a significant boost to production capacity in the printshop.

Maciej Bizon will be responsible for all new Durst industrial and intigration solutions releated business like commercial printing, screen printing, offset printing, packaging and industrial decorative as well as functional surfaces printing.

Printed Electronics Europe (17-18 April 2013 Berlin) concentrates on printed and potentially printed electronics. It covers displays, logic, sensors, power, conductors and much more - with presentations from end users and integrators.

The Fespa 2013 promotional campaign is ready for take-off, with the launch of the exhibition website at www.fespa.com/london. The campaign strapline ‘Your Destination for Print’ and the fresh aviation theme underlines Fespa’s aim: To make Fespa 2013 a global hub event which will propel visiting printers to any number of business ‘destinations’.

Informa Exhibitions today announces its fresh focus for Ipex 2014, which will be the world’s first and biggest Digital, Print & Marketing Communications event in 2014. Ipex 2014 will integrate Cross Media to showcase the latest print and communications for marketing and publishing campaigns – making it the only international event that brings together the whole print and media supply chain.

Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ SSYS), a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing and Materialise, a Belgian-based pioneer in Additive Manufacturing software and solutions, announced the unveiling of 3D printing collaborations on the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week as part of Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture show, ‘VOLTAGE’.

Dutch designer van Herpen’s eleven-piece collection featured two 3D printed ensembles, including an elaborate skirt and cape created in collaboration with artist, architect, designer and professor Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media Lab, and 3D printed by Stratasys. An intricate dress was also designed in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, currently lecturer at UCLA Los Angeles, and 3D printed by Materialise, marking the second piece created together with Koerner and the ninth with Materialise.

Drytac Europe Ltd., a UK-based manufacturer of graphics finishing products and equipment, has appointed Tadeusz Niedziółka as general manager.

Jason Oliver (42) has been appointed head of "Digital Printing" at Heidelberg and is now responsible for all the company's Linoprint systems for the commercial and packaging printing sectors. He is taking over from Dr. Christian Compera, who left the company at the end of the year at his own request.

Since early 2013, Stefan Hasenzahl (50) has been in charge of the newly founded "Very Large Format and Postpress Packaging" business area at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg). This unit pools all the company's activities associated with the large-format Speedmaster XL 145 and XL 162 presses and postpress systems for the packaging printing sector.