Printweek Daily Bulletin: Heidelberg CEO's 'exit interview'; IPIA strengthens leadership; Esko and CERM collaborate; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [Add to safe senders list]( [PrintWeek]( Monday 21 March 2022 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Fujifilm] [Today's top stories] ['We came out stronger than we went in']( ['We came out stronger than we went in']( When Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer took over as boss of the industry’s largest press manufacturer five years ago, the world was a very different place. [Esko and CERM collaborate on world-first integration]( [Esko and CERM collaborate on world-first integration]( Esko and CERM have collaborated on what is claimed to be a world-first integration that has enabled a Belgian printer to automate its workflows to produce complex labels. [IPIA strengthens leadership team]( [IPIA strengthens leadership team]( The Independent Print Industry Association (IPIA) has expanded its IPIA Council to 17 members with the addition of a further three industry professionals. [Top health & safety myths]( Health and safety law is central to regulatory intervention. But this wasn’t always so, and as a result, myths have become entrenched in operations leaving some unable to tell fact from fiction. But as soon as an incident occurs management quickly see the myth-based traps that they have just walked into. [Yesterday's most read] [Companies on four-day working week pilot named]( [More paper price increases flagged up]( [UPM strike extended for fifth time]( [Blogs] [Printer's devil: it's in the detail]( Contributing editor Jo Francis muses on the latest goings on in the print industry. [In this issue] [While the Printweek Awards finalists deservedly took centre stage in our February & March ‘Shortlist issue’, the issue was crammed as ever with a smorgasbord of insightful business and technology long reads and snappy news roundups...]( [Forward to a friend](mailto:?subject=Print%20industry%20news%20...&body=I%20thought%20you%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20newsletter%20from%20PrintWeek:%20%20 [Got some news? Email the PrintWeek newsdesk here](mailto:printweek.newsdesk@markallengroup.com) [PrintWeek jobs] [Head of Pre Print]( [Head of Procurement]( [Business Development Manager - B2 / Digital Print]( [2D Graphic Designer / Artworker - Large Format Displays]( [Sales / Client Support - Large Format / Display]( [More jobs]( [Knowledge Bank] [SDUK makes a brilliant return to show business]( [SDUK makes a brilliant return to show business]( After a near three-year-long hiatus, the expo that bills itself as the UK’s longest running event for the visual communications sector is set to take place in March. [An international affair]( [An international affair]( Margins in print can be slender. Looking at the most recent Printweek Top 500 report, compiled in association with business advisory and accountancy firm Grant Thornton, the average industry operating profit margin across the 500 companies that made the cut was 3.23%, while the average pre-tax profit margin was 2.74%. [Product portfolio] [Star product: Mutoh XpertJet Pro series]( Manufacturer’s upgraded inkjets offer both speed and quality boosts. [Me & My: Vivid Laminating Technologies VeloBlade Volta 69+]( Brighton-based One Digital had always outsourced die-cutting jobs. It had a sizeable array of equipment in its factory that allowed it to take on all manner of digital and litho work, including a vinyl Summa machine, so it was used to setting up dies and cutting guides, but die-cutting was something it had never really considered bringing in-house. © MA Business Limited 2022. [Contact Us]( [Advertising]( [Subscribe]( If you wish to unsubscribe from Printweek Daily News emails, please click [here](. To understand how we process, use & safeguard your data, please read our [Privacy Policy](. If you would like to update your marketing contact preferences, then please [click here](.