The new products from Gustav Daiber GmbH are now available. From basics and eye-catchers to winter outdoor clothing, this year’s collection includes styles for every occasion and every weather. The majority of the new looks have been available since the beginning of February. The corporate fashion manufacturer presents all new products and existing items in the climate-neutral 2025 main catalogue.
Printful, a global e-commerce platform for on-demand production, has announced that it has integrated additional units of Kornit Digital’s innovative Atlas MAX technology, which can deliver new levels of print quality and colour consistency.
Print shops and also clients have been navigating this field of tension for years. What influence do variable data printing or personalisation have? Does AI help in everyday printing and which process has the lowest CO2 footprint? These and many other topics will be addressed at the Fogra symposium ‘Digital printing meets offset’ on 21 and 22 May 2025.
André Knaus has been the new Head of Marketing & Digital Operations at Albstadt-based Gustav Daiber GmbH since January 2025. The graduate economist and IT manager has a broad profile of expertise in marketing and technology and has set himself the goal of positioning the corporate fashion manufacturer as a pioneer for innovative, digital solutions in the industry in the long term.
On 29 January 2025, the print and media associations, together with around 50 business associations and business initiatives, are calling for the first nationwide ‘Economic Warning Day’. The business community is calling on the parties to place the strengthening of German competitiveness at the centre of the election campaign and to initiate an economic turnaround after the general election.
The mechanical and plant engineering industry in Germany is expecting a decline in production in 2025 and, for the first time in many years, the sector is facing a slight reduction in jobs. In order to strengthen Germany and Europe as a business location, the VDMA is calling for a political U-turn.
In the run-up to the 2025 Bundestag elections, the Bundesverband Druck und Medien e.V. is publishing a position paper for the print and media industry entitled ‘Ohne uns macht keiner ein Kreuz!’. The position paper identifies nine specific areas of action that call for a sustainable economic policy and decisive political action.
With a joint declaration and demonstration at the Reichstag building in Berlin on the occasion of the vote of confidence, 16 business associations called for an ‘economic election campaign’. The print and media associations are part of the initiative and support the declaration.
The antitrust authorities in Germany, Austria and Poland have approved the takeover of the Heytex Group’s core business by Freudenberg Performance Materials, the parent company of Mehler Texnologies. This means that Heytex’s core business with three production sites (in Germany and China) and all central functions will in future be part of the newly formed specialist for coated technical textiles.
