Kasturi Balaji elected chair of World Printers Forum

WPF is an organisation of newspaper printers and suppliers within WAN-IFRA with an objective to encourage innovation and productivity as well as product development that can be instrumental for publishers to exploit future oriented news media products.

"The WPF will focus sharply on how printed products, largely newspapers from news media organisations and companies, can be kept relevant and be sustained into the distant future," said Balaji. "The forum seeks to achieve this by addressing all print-related questions and encouraging innovation, product development and productivity," he added.

Rick Stunt, group paper director of the Daily Mail Group Media in the United Kingdom, was elected vice-chair of the forum.

The WPF board has 12 members, half of them representing publishing and printing companies and half representing materials and equipment suppliers from around the world.