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Flint Group will present at Labelexpo Brussels (stand B45, Hall 5) innovation in action as well as inks, plates and sleeves. “For the 2011 show Flint Group has more new products to show than ever before” says Global Product Director Flint Group Narrow Web, Jennifer Joyce.

Creations with a “character” of their own are getting ever more popular – in the private, public or commercial domain they offer a greater degree of individuality and variety. Thanks to digital printing procedures the possibilities are practically unlimited, since this is a process suitable for printing on all kinds of materials, be they wood, glass, stone or textile.

The E-version of KBA’s B2 (29in) Rapida 75 launched at Ipex 2010 in Birmingham is fast gaining an international following, with installations in Europe, Asia, Latin America and, since spring this year, South Africa, where two press lines went live at Pro-Print in Congella, near Durban (KwaZulu-Natal). They are proof that the E stands for both economy and ecology.

Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka, Japan, a group company of Kyocera Corporation, and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of office information equipment, together with EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), a well-known producer of customer-focused digital printing innovation, announced that its new TASKalfa color multifunctional products (MFPs), available to customers worldwide, now include an optional EFI Fiery Printing System 11/12.

Roland DG North Europe A/S announces the appointment of Tatiana Novikova as Country Manager for Russia and the CIS states.

According to preliminary calculations, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) generated sales of EUR 544 million in the first quarter of financial year 2011/12 (previous year: EUR 563 million).

Swedish group Miller Graphics has become the 100^th company to install the Digital Flexo Suite from EskoArtwork (www.esko.com) at its production site in Beauvais, France. The Digital Flexo Suite is installed in conjunction with a Kongsberg XL44 cutting table, which is specifically designed for cutting flexographic plates.

In focus at this year’s Lüscher exhibition (Hall 7, Stand M50) with over 112 m² are the versatile hybrid platesetters Multi DX and XPose! Flex. The innovative hybrid technology makes possible the print plate manufacturing for flexo-graphy, offset, letterpress and rotary screen printing processes in one single platesetter – a solution for label printing. Visitors can also inform themselves about the new direct exposure of letterpress print plates process without an ablation layer as well as special solutions for coating plate production.

Exhibiting for the first time at Labelexpo Europe, Soma Engineering will feature live demonstrations of its Bulldog, offline die cutter and Pluto II slitter-rewinder.

Stroma and Newspaper Abroad, two pioneering companies in digital newspapers, announced an agreement that will bring more international newspaper titles available the same morning to London for the first time.