BRANTFORD ,ONTARIO—

 APD Printing has moved into their new 30,000 sq. Ft. plant down the road from the old plant. New  press room includes a Heidelberg Speedmaster  CX 102 five colour with coater that can handle up to 39 pt and a HP Indigo.The company was started in 2001 and now  has over 50 employees. Printing ranges from business cards, stationery, presentation folders , calendars, labels to boxes and packaging. Recently they have also got into the custom apparel business .

LA TUQUE, QUEBEC—

 Smurfit Westrock announced plans to permanently close one of the paper machines at its mill in La Tuque, Quebec.  Smurfit Westrock, which has North American headquarters in Atlanta, the machine’s annual production capacity of 127,000 tons of solid bleached sulfate (SBS) has faced what the company says are scale and cost challenges, prompting the closure.

MONTREAL—

 RB Digital is proud to announce that they are now an authorized Canadian dealer for Duplo. Duplo a manufacture of print finishing equipment designed for short-run and on-demand production, including booklet makers, cutters, die cutters , laminators , perfect binders and slitters/cutters, creasers. Duplo Seiko based in Wakayama Japan , bought Multigraf (Switzerland) and Bar Graphic Machinery (England).

LONDON, ONTARIO—

 M&T Printing Group has been named a 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Photocopy, Print & Digital Services category for the London region. The Consumer Choice Award is determined through independent market research and consumer feedback, evaluating businesses on reputation, customer satisfaction, and overall excellence within their category. 

LEICESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM—

 Technicrease, a new in-line finishing system for web presses. TechniFold's new inline finishing system for creating, scoring and perfing on most webs. A compact cassette that drops into any web line and adds crack-free machine direction creasing, micro-perforation, kiss-cutting, and slitting at full press speed. After market  Technicrease system can be retrofitted on Hunkeler, Tecnau, Mark Andy, Mps, Edale, Gallus. Nilpeter, Bobst, Domino, Omet and more. 

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA—

 HP has unveiled the Indigo 7K+ Digital Press.  The 7K+ Digital Press, is built on the 7X00 platform and boosts HP’s offering for the A3 mid-range commercial print market. By incorporating on-press automation and AI tools, the digital press aims to streamline manual processes and enable “more efficient, data-driven decision-making”.

ALTONA, MANITOBA—

 February during I Love to Read Month, a celebration Friesens  was proud to participate in year after year. Friesens employees visited Grade 2 classrooms across the Pembina Valley to share Owl, the 2026 I Love to Read book of the month. In partnership with the author and publisher, Friesens donated 1,000 books to the students, filling classrooms with enthusiastic owl calls, curious questions, and bright smiles—reminders of how stories can spark imagination and create lasting connections.

BRAMPTON , ONTARIO—

 The Colorado M-Traffic is a 1.6m (64-inch) roll-to-roll printer. It  is designed to produce regulated and non-regulated traffic signage, while it is equipped with new UVgel 540-R inks developed to meet traffic sign standards and safety regulations. The inks allow for seven key traffic colours using a CMYK inkset, to help traffic signage producers "achieve consistent and accurate output, when combined with appropriate materials and processing steps".

OFFENBACH, GERMANY.—

 Manroland Sheetfed has entered into a “creditor protection” form of insolvency proceedings, with the support of parent Langley Holdings.

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Roland DGA’s UV Direct-to-Film (DTF)  system makes it easy to create colourful, detailed, and durable pre-printed UV graphics that can be manually transferred to a vast array of three-dimensional objects, including oversized and irregularly shaped items. The process is a breeze, with just a few simple steps required. After the desired graphic is printed onto a print sheet, the user overlays the transfer film onto the graphic.