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Currie Group wins global HP accolade
Local HP Indigo supplier Currie Group has taken out the global HP Channel Partner of the Year award, recognising its combined performance across both labels & packaging, and commercial print. Wayne Robinson reports.
THE annual HP Industrial Graphics Partner Awards acknowledge and celebrate the success of HP’s partners around the globe, with Currie Group proclaimed the 2021 Worldwide Channel Partner of the Year.
Currie Group delivered a record high year in sales, despite its head office in Melbourne being in lockdown for 262 days since lockdown began. Among its installs, Currie Group sold two HP Indigo 100K presses, having installed the first with online training
and remote support only.
The judges noted the performance
is underpinned by Currie Group’s “excellent installed-base manage- ment, managing older presses and upgrading presses where required with their customers”.
Craig Walmsley, HP Industrial country manager Australia & New Zealand, said, “Currie Group’s
Italiya installs fiTrst HP PageWide C500
recognition as HP Industrial Graphics Worldwide Channel Partner of the Year is a just reward for the hard work of the entire Currie Group team.
“Currie Group has overcome mul- tiple challenges from lockdown in Melbourne and have maintained their excellent customer service. We’re proud to have Currie Group as our partner in Australia and New Zealand and look forward to celebrating our continued success together long into the future.”
Rob Mesaros, Currie Group CEO, said, “We’re humbled for being rec- ognised as HP Industrial Graphics Worldwide Channel Partner of the Year. HP Industrial Graphics has been a core part of our business for 20 years, and despite the challenges that come from working in a global pandemic, we’re proud that our strategic collab- oration with HP has been recognised with this Award.” ■
Global HP Channel of Year award: Currie Group management team led by Rob Mesaros (centre).
Italiya Graphics is installing the country’s
first HP PageWide C500 Corrugated Press,
which will enable it to expand its offering
of corrugated products and digital printing
services, reports Wayne Robinson. offset print quality, reduced Italiya Graphics, said, “At Italiya, we
HE industrial-scale press will the company says the C500 will also be the first C500 installed ensure that Italiya’s packaging solu- in Australia and, says HP, tions are “fully sustainable, recyclable will enable Italiya to provide and compostable”.
brands in the region with Vimal Italiya, managing director
waste and obsolescence, and genuinely care about our planet and to turn work around quickly and our future. Sustainable packaging is
First HP Pagewide C500 in Australia: Pictured are (l-r) Paras Italiya, general manager, Italiya Graphics; Vimal Italiya, managing director, Italiya Graphics;and Bruce Caldwell,sales consultant, HP PageWide Industrial.
reliably, enabling it to deliver custom- isable, “offset-quality products with breakthrough time” to market.
The company says the C500 offers an improved operational efficiency and a resilient supply chain, over- coming pandemic uncertainties and delays. Designed for producing high quality print in demanding produc- tion environments, the press prints at 75 linear metres a minute in top print quality, with 1200 lpi resolution using one million nozzles.
With its water-based ink technology,
not just about using recycled mate- rials, we look at each process and material to determine if there are more eco-friendly ways to improve.”
Italiya’s green roadmap also includes the installation of 900KW solar panels and 500KW batteries, significantly reducing its carbon footprint. Combined with its plas- tic-free alternatives and water-based adhesives, Italiya says it is poised to become a leader in digital sustain- able print, raising the bar of the print industry in Australia. ■