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UPM Raflatac has achieved both FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody certifications for a range of labelstock produced at its Nancy factory in France and for the slitting and distribution operations in Osnago, Italy. All UPM Raflatac factories in Europe are now FSC and PEFC certified.

Inca Digital has doubled its Onset manufacturing volume at its Cambridge facility in the UK to meet a considerable boost in demand for this powerful series of UV flatbed wide-format digital inkjet printers. This follows the successful launch of the original Inca Onset in 2007, the Onset S20 in 2008 and high interest in the Onset S40 launched earlier this year.

Who says newspapers aren't attractive to young readers? Twenty-four World Young Reader Prize winners, from a wide variety of countries and cultures, demonstrate there is much newspapers can do to attract the next generation of readers.

The presentations and press conferences in Chicago (12 September), Manila (15 September) and Tokyo (18 September) signal the start of the crucial phase of the drupa 2012 World Tour. Reaching far into February 2012, around 60 drupa events will take place in more than 40 countries.

The international standards organisation (ISO) is presently working on the new standard ISO 14067 for the CO2 footprint of products in order to quantify and publish the greenhouse gas emissions of products and services as a worldwide standard.

PrintCity Alliance Value Added Packaging (VAPack) members: manroland, UPM, Sun Chemical, M-real, Kurz, Merck and Weilburger Graphics, plus main project partner Bobst, have been joined by new members and partners following the successful worldwide launch of the project at Interpack in May.

Printing systems manufacturer and foil specialist in the Netherlands form a new partnership. Enhancing print products with cold foil is very popular now. For many years, manroland has been working continuously on optimizing the technology and expanding the range of applications. Cold foil enhancement with the Roland InlineFoiler Prindor is among the most spectacular inline enhancement processes on the market today.

Fujifilm announced that over 50 products from three of its Sericol screen printing textile ink ranges had been approved by the Soil Association Certification to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) for use in organic textile processing.

The Chairman of the Management Board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Bernhard Schreier, is the new drupa 2012 President and Chairman of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board.

NuMaber, the flexographic plate production company based in Roncade (TV), is enjoying a significant improvement in quality and output after investing in digital flexo technology from EskoArtwork. The company has installed four CDI Spark 5080 (format 1270 x 2032mm), two with HD Flexo for digital photopolymer engraving.