INDUSTRY / NEWS printmonthly PrintMonthlyMagazine Non-profit community interest company (CIC), wishesjust4you, has called on printers, packaging companies, carton manufacturers, and paper merchants to donate surplus art and print materials to help support its mission to bring joy to children with life-limiting illnesses and disabilities. The organisation was created by founder Bill Stillman out of a desire to bring joy to children and young people living with lifelong disabilities and illnesses. The organisation works closely with children’s hospices and schools, across the UK. The organisation welcomes donations of clean, reusable materials, including but not limited to paper and board textiles, foam, bubble wrap, and any surplus art supplies. Those interested in supporting the initiative have been encouraged to contact Bill Stillman directly, either by email at bill@wishesjust4you. co.uk or by phone at 07342945690. Print press manufacturer, HEIDELBERG UK, has announced a partnership with Glastonbury Festival. Glastonbury is an internationally renowned five-day music and performing arts festival which takes place on 1500 acres of farmland in Somerset and is attended by over 200,000 people. This year’s line-up includes Olivia Rodrigo, The Prodigy, The 1975, Neil Young, Charli XCX, Rod Stewart, and many others. For 2025, HEIDELBERG UK is officially partnering with the Glastonbury Festival Free Press, the official festival newspaper, throughout the event. Now in its 12th year of production, the newspaper is printed in the Theatre & Circus fields of the festival on a vintage 1957 seven-ton HEIDELBERG cylinder press, with tens of thousands of copies printed by hand each year. These copies are distributed for free around the festival at different locations and times. Alongside the newspaper, a series of collectible posters are printed with a different theme each year, which are sold during the course of the festival. The 70-year-old HEIDELBERG press is reportedly still in perfect running condition. As part of this year’s official partnership, HEIDELBERG will also provide an apprenticeship to a young person from the festival and its partners. This apprentice will receive training as a printing machine engineer. Glastonbury Festival 2025 will run from June 25th to 29th. The Free Press section will operate on all five days of the festival to produce thousands of copies of the Free Press newspaper, as well as creative posters and other promotional items for sale. Launched in 2013, Glastonbury Free Press provides news from the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset Printers called on to donate unused materials to charity Koenig & Bauer and Siemens announce strategic partnership Koenig & Bauer and Siemens have announced a strategic collaboration, to further develop Koenig & Bauer’s modular machine automation system. The standardised modular automation platform allows machine-builders to create and maintain an accurate and synchronised virtual representation of their machine, allowing for testing and checks to be done on the digital version to avoid costly hold-ups, breakages, or other errors. The concept of the ‘digital twin’ can also allow engineers to check on issues virtually without the need to physically travel to the machine, saving resources, time, and cost. The announcement comes as part of Koenig & Bauer’s strategic goals to transform into a major digital solutions provider. On April 1st, the German manufacturer’s Digital Unit, which previously operated under the Koenig & Bauer Group umbrella, was spun off from the holding company into a wholly owned subsidiary. Sandra Wagner, previously vice president of Digitalisation at the company, has been appointed managing director of the new Kyana subsidiary. [L to R] Florian Stappenbeck, Michael Thomas, Marten van Rossum, and Christian Steinmaßl Paper and packaging manufacturer, James Cropper, has partnered with paper artist Nathan Ward on a new project titled ‘Message in a Wrap’. The project, which coincides with James Cropper’s 180th anniversary, was designed to highlight James Cropper’s recent partnership with premium whisky distillery, Bruichladdich, on an award-winning bottle wrap made from its 100% renewable Moulded Fibre material. Last year, James Cropper partnered with the whisky brand to introduce its Luxury Redefined packaging range with a ‘fully sustainable’ bottle outer wrap. For the collaboration, Nathan Ward, an award-winning artist specialising in papercraft, created a 3D diorama made entirely with material made from Moulded Fibre pulp. The project represents Bruichladdich’s Isle of Islay distillery alongside James Cropper’s historic Burneside mill, with elements such as clouds, trees, houses, and a bridge all crafted from Moulded Fibre and paper. The entire diorama is encased inside an enlarged Moulded Fibre wrap for a Bruichladdich bottle. Ward’s previous collaborations include work with GF Smith, Penguin Books, Antalis, and Santander. The diorama represents Bruichladdich’s distillery alongside a James Cropper mill By Jonathan Pert By Jonathan Pert By Jonathan Pert 6 email: editor@printmonthly.co.uk May / June 2025 - Issue 354 HEIDELBERG partners with Glastonbury Festival James Cropper commissions 3D diorama crafted from paper wishesjust4you facilitates children with life-limiting illnesses to create pieces of art
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