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Sappi honours printers and their pursuit of print excellence

Sappi Printers of the Year

The 2010 Sappi African Printers of the Year gala event held in Sun City on 12 August 2010 was a celebration of print excellence where printers and their winning entries shared the spotlight.

At the glittering event hosted by Master of ceremonies Jo-Anne Strauss and entertained by the group NUBIA, this year's theme of Future Imprint was emphasized by Executive Director Marketing: Sappi Paper and Paper Packaging South Africa, Dinga Mncube: "This year, Sappi not only wants to honour the craft of printing and the legacy of the industry, but also the resilience that businessmen and women in your position have exhibited during the tough economic environment of the last two years."

Stephen van der Walt awarded the Hubert Coetzee Award for Management Excellence

On Tuesday, 27 July, Stephen van der Walt, was awarded the Hubert Coetzee Award for Management Excellence at the Media24 Conference.

Paarl Media Business Lounge at the 2010 Cape Town Book Fair

At this year’s Cape Town Book Fair, Paarl Media is focusing on bringing their payoff line, “Where printing is personal” alive, through offering a strong personal service to business people.

Paarl Media invests in KwaZulu-Natal

In recognition of the importance of KwaZulu-Natal as a South African economic hub and in response to clients’ requirements, Paarl Media has established a new web offset printing plant in Durban. In addition to employment creation and skills upliftment, this substantial investment will deliver a new standard of print service to businesses in the region.

Paarl Coldset wins at Mondi Shanduka Awards

Paarl Coldset is proud to be the printers of high quality, award winning newspapers. At this year’s Mondi Shanduka Awards, which was held on 5 May, 2010 at Soccer City in Johannesburg, Die Burger, Volksblad and Naweek Beeld, came out as clear winners.

Covering all bases in Labelling

According to MD Callie de Wet, the stronger Rand is blurring the profit scenario for most wine exporters and therefore the wine label converters are seeing a clear division between finding cost-effective solutions for the high-volume/low price producers and the technologically advanced innovations to enhance the wines in the premium and super premium price ranges.

Paarl Print committed to Department of Labour inquiry

The fire that occurred at Paarl Print on 17 April 2009 was a tragic and unforgettable event for all persons involved, including the management and employees of Paarl Print. Paarl Print has, on several occasions, publically committed to determine the origin, cause and spread of the fire with the primary aim to ensure that a similar event does not reoccur.

PIFSA, in collaboration with Paarl Media and QuadTech, the leaders of color

Invite you to a Color Management Conference.

Allow QuadTech to redefine your perception of colour and colour control. Presentation by Principal Engineer, John Seymour ("The Revelator") and Ink on Paper Manager, Kurt Miller ("Elvis"), will unlock the mystery of filters, mixing, density, colour space & the tecnology available to manner & control these.

Venue: Birchwood Centre, Johannesburg
Date: 16 Feb 2010
Time: 9am-4am

More information and directions for this event.
Program details, click here

Paarl Media Group gears up for the future

New equipment
As deliberations with staff members and the representative unions continue, the Paarl Media Group has in the interim procured three new printing presses from Komori.  These presses include an LS 1040Pten unit perfecting press, an LS 840P eight unit perfecting press and an LS 640 + C six unit press with anilox coating.  Both perfecting presses will be equipped with reel to sheet equipment.

Paarl Print Fire - Investigators making progress

The tragic incident of 17 April 2009 at the Paarl Print factory not only completely destroyed the printing facility but also left several people seriously injured and 13 people dead. The extent of the damage and impact raised many questions and speculations as to the reasons for the cause and such rapid spread of the fire as well as for the resulting mortalities.