Durst moves to buy MPS, Australia’s IVE buys into DOOH, and the UK’s solvent rules ripple outward — plus 7 more｜BPJ News (Evening)
Equipment consolidation, regulatory boundary lines, and print companies going after “inventory” and operations all landed in the same 24 hours.
Durst is moving ahead with the acquisition of flexo press maker MPS Printing, nudging label plants toward operating models that assume “digital + flexo side by side.” At the same time, changes outside the pressroom—UK solvent regulation, an Australian print giant buying into DOOH, and agent-driven purchasing—are shaking cost, quality, and go-to-market assumptions on the floor.
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At LOUPE Americas, proposals to bundle RFID, AI inspection, and embellishment into a “single pass” showed up with named configurations. In the UK, a public consultation is moving forward on tighter controls for GBL and 1,4-BD, putting operational requirements—especially SDS (Safety Data Sheet, the document that summarizes a chemical’s hazards and handling)—back in the spotlight. And in the promo/communications market, as IVE’s acquisition of DOOH player Motio suggests, m…
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