Abigraf Award on Socioenviromental Responsibility

Created by national ABIGRAF, Abigraf Award on Socioenviromental Responsibility was given on 5 June 2009, World Day of Environment for the first time. Award ceremony was held at Socio-Cultural Association of Attorneys in Sao Paulo and about 200 people attended to this event.

CONLATINGRAF at First Summit of Large Format & Screen Printing Digital Printers

The president of CONLATINGRAF, José Luis Zamora, has been specially invited to participate at this event, which will be held on Tuesday 19th May, organized by FESPA Mexico and the President of the Republic of Mexico will attend at.

Choosing a Better Future in the Americas

Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors. We have been too easily distracted by other priorities, and have failed to see that our own progress is tied directly to progress throughout the Americas. My Administration is committed to the promise of a new day. We will renew and sustain a broader partnership between the United States and the hemisphere on behalf of our common prosperity and our common security.
Barack Obama, President of USA

PORTAL CONLATINGRAF – Live show of great events

Again the world graphic community can share events of CONLATINGRAF and of the graphic sector in direct.

FAIGA – Move against unfair trade following the global economic crisis

As first vice president of FAIGA, Juan Carlos Sacco asked an interview with the Argentine Minister of Production to claim urgent measures against the unfair trade, which is stronger because of the global economic crisis and, as all the industries, is also treating the graphic industry.

Latin America – Economic projections for the graphic industry in 2009

On the data base that was specially built for CONLATINGRAF, 2009 projections show that the Latin American Graphic Industry will grow between 0.8 and 1.9 %, nevertheless the grave world economic crisis.

Brazil – Demand fall of graphic paper, cardboard and press paper

Shocked by the demand retraction and real depreciation, price of graphic paper is under pressure in Brazil. The more affected products are imported paper, particularly coated paper

Chile – Investment of forest-paper mill group

CMPC, forest company from Chilean Matte group, has decided to build their first tissue paper mill in Colombia. This company has already started a new tissue paper mill in Uruguay in 2008 December. Besides, the firm approved to enlarge their capacity of corrugated cardboard production.

MERCOSUR – XXXVI Meeting of the Common Market Council

The Uruguay Chamber of Industries prepared a documented synthesis on MERCOSUR Summit Meeting that was held on last 15th December in Salvador do Bahia, Brazil.

ANDIGRAF – Participation in negotiations with the European Union

In representation of the Colombia’s Graphic Industry, ANDIGRAF is participating in the round of negotiations on a Free Trade Treaty with the European Union.

Recent events have disproved the notion that emerging nations had “decoupled” themselves from the advanced economies. The facts have shown the opposite to be true. Most emerging economies are still fragile and affected by what goes on in the advanced countries. The effects of this recession will be particularly severe in Latin America.

Sebastian Edwards, Professor of Economics at UCLA and was formerly the World Bank’s chief economist for Latin America

Day-to-day, activity by activity, Portal CONLATINGRAF is informing about all that happens in the XXI Latin American Congress, the 72 General Ordinary Assembly and the XV “Theobaldo De Nigris” Latin American Contest of Graphic Products. Live and direct events, conferences and interviews will be transmitted. To follow that is happening in Buenos Aires from worldwide.

Those experts who are part of the International Jury have begun their task of evaluation in the home of Fundacion Gutenberg on this Monday 10 November.
The task is shown very hard because of the big amount of copies that are submitted in this competence, in all the entries and from all the Latin American countries.
The backward counting has started in the running up to the winners’ limelight.

According to the sociologist and professor in the University of Chile, Manuel Antonio Garreton, the crisis compels to take a set of state interventions for correcting the unilateral vision of the neoliberalism.

AGUDI (The association of Peruvian graphic industrialists) has published their Electronic Bulletin that corresponds to the first week of November, informing so about their activity to the Latin American colleagues.

The seed CONLATINGRAF sowed on 2005 by the so-called "Declaration of Buenos Aires" is going on gathering fruits. Members from UNI Graphic and SITAG met with members of CANAGRAF (National Chamber of the Industry of Graphic Arts of Mexico) to discuss common problems.

AGUDI - Asociación de Industriales Gráficos del Perú (Association of Graphic Industrialists of Peru) is in communication with the graphic entrepreneurs by means of the Electronic Bulletin, which is promoted by Portal CONLATINGRAF with pleasure.

From Thursday 16 through Saturday 18 October, Design Fest - 2nd International Festival of Design, and ExpoDiseño in the just opened Hall of Conferences and Conventions of Expo-Guadalajara, in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico.

The president of CONLATINGRAF, Juan Carlos Sacco, as general secretary of the Argentine Industrial Union, was among the authorities who welcomed the Argentine President. Dr. Cristina F. de Kirchner attended the toast in UIA home to celebrate the “Day of the Industry”.

On their IMPRESION magazine, the Association of Graphic Industrialists of Ecuador has published very important information about their institutional activity: the new AIG Board, the 2008 Graphic Leader Award that CONLATINGRAF and PIF (Printing Industry of Florida) have given to the entrepreneur Felix Enrique Cortes Pinto and the acknowledgment Xerox Ecuador gave to him for such a reason.

The president of CONLATINGRAF, Juan Carlos Sacco, was in the conference “Latin America and the Change in the Global Economy”, that corresponds to the fifth meeting that was organized by the Council of the Americas and the Argentine Chamber of Trade, which was held in the Alvear Palace Hotel of Buenos Aires.

The president of CONLATINGRAF, Juan Carlos Sacco, attended the seminario that was opened by the president of Brazil, Luis Lula Da Silva, together with the president of Argentina, Cristina F. de Kirchner. Taking profit from that event the president Sacco spoke with the large group of Brazilean industrial businessmen, who came with the President Lula Da Silva in his visit to Buenos Aires.

The president Juan Carlos Sacco will be, together with the vice president Jose Luis Zamora and other Confederation’s authorities, to the opening of the Center of Graphic Training that AIAG has worked out. In Caracas the Director Board’s meeting will be held. Afterwards, in Mexico City, the president Juan Carlos Sacco will lecture before the opening of FESPA México World Expo, where he will be present.

The General Latin American Secretary (from the Permanent Latin American Conference) and past president of LABD, Enrique Iglesias, visited Buenos Aires to dictate a Seminar and held an interview with Clarin journal. There he remarked “the inedit opportunity” Latin America is going through. On base of their statements, the president of CONLATINGRAF, Juan Carlos Sacco, contacted Iglesias to tell him his coincidence on those points of view.

Because of “A step more in Graphic training on XXI century”, published on “The President’s Column” in Artes Graficas magazine, the Chief of Creative Arte of the Autonomous National University of Nicaragua sent highly favourable terms to the president Juan Carlos Sacco.

Face the eventual change of the House of Currency in a company, ASIMPRES submits a petition to the Commission of Treasury of the Senate of Chile and fixes their position claiming for the consequences of the law project that is being discussed.

The author of  “Manual on rotogravure, packaging and large format printing”, the expert on graphic process Luis Juara Hita, present the second issue on June 2008.

Belgium-based multi-national Agfa Graphics has announced a 15 million Euro (36 million Brazilian Real) investment program for its Brazilian printing plate manufacturing site for increasing capacity and updating technology to manufacture complete plate assortment.

ECRM has just announced the appointment of Ed Millhorn as Business Director for Latin America. With over 25 years experience in graphic industry sales, Mr. Millhorn will oversee and manage the company’s current and developing sales and marketing channels in South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and Mexico. He will work from a base office in Miami, Florida and report directly to ECRM’s Vice President, Western Hemisphere Sales, Doug Barr. The appointment is effective immediately.

Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) have just announced the recipients of the 2008 InterTech™ Technology Awards. For over thirty years, recipients of this prestigious award have not only had a major impact on the graphic communications industry, but they also consistently prove to be successful in the commercial marketplace.

The department of International Trade and Negotiation of the Argentine Chancellery releases a paper about the lines Argentina will hold in the next meeting of ministers of the member countries in the World Trade Organization.

Face the eventual change of the House of Currency in a company, ASIMPRES submits a petition to the Commission of Treasury of the Senate of Chile and fixes their position claiming for the consequences of the law project that is being discussed.

By the objective of improving the management, as of ASIMPRES as of the Institute of Graphic Studies - Instituto de Estudios Gráficos (IEG) - the Executive Board of ASIMPRES AG has decided to modify the functions in the General Management of the Trade Union Association

In Bogota, on 24th April, the executive director of Fundacion Gutenberg, Lic. Roberto Candiano, spoke to an auditorium of about 500 Colombian graphic entrepreneurs and professionals about the Argentina experience on the certification of professional competences in the graphic industry.

Both the salary agreement that was signed by the union leaders of entrepreneurs and workers of the graphic industry and the recent document that was signed by CONLATINGRAF and UNI Graphics Americas were signed by the National President, Dr. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The president of CONLATINGRAF mentioned the previous documents that have been signed to defend and to promote the Latin American graphic enterprises.

On Thursday 24th April, in the Jose Hernandez Room in the Red Hall, the official opening of the event – which is considered the most important cultural event of Argentina – was. Among government authorities attended the National vice president, Eng. Julio Cobos, and the Chief of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Eng. Mauricio Macri.

This year the Costa Rica Association of Graphic Industry is developing a set of activities successfully. At the same time their authorities are engaged to prepare a large attendance to the XXI Latin American Congress, which will be held in Buenos Aires this next November.

Under CIFAG’s coordination, on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May, a seminar about “Control of Quality in Offset Printing” will be held in the Training Center of AIGP – Asociación de Industriales Gráficos de Paraguay (Paraguay Association of Graphic Industry).

The agreement we are working up remarks the leading role the supranational organizations play in the present global stage, Juan Carlos Sacco, president of CONLATINGRAF points up.

Mexican graphic entrepreneurs took part in the Commercial Mission, organized by CANAGRAF, to the Federal Republic of Russia and to the Republic of Poland, from 14 through 18 January, 2008. During the visit to the two countries graphic production plants were visited and there were talks with Russian and Pole entrepreneurs about subjects of mutual interest.

Nominated by CONLATINGRAF, the Equator entrepreneur Felix Enrique Cortes Pinto will receive2008 Graphic Leader of America – Latin American Region award, which is given annually by PAF – Printing Association of Florida. The ceremony will be held on Wednesday 27th February in the Vizcaya Palace at Miami.

The president of CONLATINGRAF, Juan Carlos Sacco has sent a circular to the presidents of all the member associations to inform about the benefices CONLATINGRAF has got in Graphics of the Americas. FREE PASS

CONLATINGRAF and UNI Graphics will hold a Conference on 27 and 28 March, 2008, about “The social dialog in Latin America Graphic Industry” for getting projects to be submitted in all the national legislatures, the same as in the Argentine Congress, in order to work up the issues of the “Declaration of Buenos Aires” and the “Declaration of Guaruja”.

A graphic workman, reader of “The Column of the President”, anxious of training, sent an email to the president of CONLATINGRAF, who immediately answer and lead him to take profit from the E-Learning CIFAG offers on the Portal.

On Thursday 7 February, the president of CONLATINGRAF, Juan Carlos Sacco, as General Secretary of the Executive Committer of UIA (Argentine Industrial Union) was part of the meeting with the National Secretary of Industry, Fernando Fraguio, for discussing different subjects of the factories’ activities.

After getting Good Management Practices (GMP) in the business, the time the activities have to be measured and managed has come in order to verify and to correct deficiencies and needs in administrative divisions and support to the production, the same as the technical inconveniences in production and supply sectors.

By the call of the president Juan Carlos Sacco, on Wednesday 31st October, the Director Board was met in the home of the General Secretariat at Montevideo, Uruguay, in order to discuss important subjects for the institutional advance.

The president of CONLATINGRAF Juan Carlos Sacco has done several and continuous steps at governmental level in order to solve some problems that worry to several graphic branches.

During the Ordinary General Assembly, held on Wednesday 17th October, the businessman Anselmo L. Morvillo was elected by unanimity as president of FAIGA. He will lead the institution by the third time, which is remarked as a landmark in the history of FAIGA.

The prestige of CONLATINGRAF goes on growing worldwide. The General Secretary of UNI Global Trade Union has sent a note to the president Juan Carlos Sacco for his invaluable support to the Document that has recently signed at Guaruja, Brazil, in order to build a fruitful social dialog between entrepreneurs and workers of the graphic industry.

The vice president of ASIMPRES Roberto Tapia Mac D. and the president of CONAGRA Valentín Vega back with their opinions the Document CONLATINGRAF signed with UNI Graphic – World and Latin American – to defend the Latin American graphic sector.

Because of issues, attendance, adopted decisions and growth perspectives that are open, the newly held institutional CONLATINGRAF meeting, organized by ABIGRAF, has been a significant proof about the dimension CONLATINGRAF has got.

The 40th Anniversary of CONLATINGRAF setting up and the first 200 years old of the Brazilian graphic industry are to dates to share and to celebrate, besides of encouraging the reflection about our managerial engagement.

In representation of the feeling of small and middle graphic enterprises from whole Latin America, the president of UGAR (Argentine Regional Graphic Union), one of the FAIGA structures, asked to the president of CONLATINGRAF for the Portal were the tool that makes specially the smallest Latin American graphic plants are in equal situation that the most industrialized countries’ plants in regard to access to the technology DRUPA 2008 will present.

By the visit of Brazilian graphic entrepreneurs to Establecimiento Grafico Impresores S. A. the starting of the project of promoting the competitiveness by interchanging business experience...

The new round of seminars that Xerox organizes annually to help new opportunities of graphic business by means of the integration of the digital technology has an open support of...

Releases and notes about the highest world graphic industry event are anticipated to the press media, which are appointed as Premium Media Partner. Only publications from five Latin American countries.

Knowledge from much time ago – first in the Argentine Industrial Union and then in the Secretary of Industry – opens the door for the dialogue between about issues that interest to the graphic sector the new Ministry of Economy, Lic. Miguel Peirano, and the graphic entrepreneur Juan Carlos Sacco – present president of CONLATINGRAF, vice president first of FAIGA and secretary of the Argentine Industrial Union.

Training activities from the Training Program that was approved by CONLATINGRAF has been held. By means of CIFAG the Seminar for training professional teachers for graphic industry staff has been fulfilled.

The Grupo Nación GN, S.A., from San Jose , is the first ranked in printed communication media in Costa Rica . This company quotes on the Stock Exchange, was founded 60 years ago, publishes La Nacion and Al Dia newspapers, the same as, since 2006, La Teja, with a total issue of 224,000 copies in working days. On Sundays La Nación Al Día gets a total of 231,000 copies. Their manager of production, Mario F. Hernandez, speaks about the strategy for wining competitiveness.
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In previous weeks from presidential inauguration in Bolivia and in his first message in the National
Congress, the first Indian origin President, Evo Morales, said interesting opinions about his policy mind.
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Among four projects, which were chosen in the last Forum of Angels Investors Network in 2005, there is one project about Printer Purchase Center.
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