Two Australians with longstanding connections to the newspaper and ink industries have died in recent weeks.
Flint Ink account manager Daryl Clarke died suddenly on January 18 aged 57, while former Coates Ink director Noel Dalton died in early November.
Clarke (right) started his industry career as an apprentice printer for C.C. Merritt in the 1970s, later joining John Sands as a heatset printer. He moved to the supply side in the 1980s when he joined Australian ink maker F.T. Wimble as an account manager for web and sheetfed inks. He
joined Flint Ink in March 2003 as part of its acquisition of the SICPA news inks division.
"Daryl was a hard working, enthusiastic and dedicated employee at Flint over the years, seeing him serve in various account management
roles in NSW," says Flint Group ANZ print media and sheetfed business director Paul Lamberti. "He will be sadly missed."
His death follows that of long-serving former Coates Brothers (now DIC Australia) director Noel Dalton on November 4 - a couple of weeks short of his 69th birthday - after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis.
He had trained as an ink technician at Coates before moving into sales and in initially to Brisbane, before returning to Sydney and a succession of roles within the company and its successors, DIC.
Pictured: Noel Dalton - then Coates Australia Queensland manager - with (from left) Rod Urquhart (SICPA Australia ink technical manager), Geoff Austin of host the Gold Coast Bulletin, and Harold Phillipson (Goss Graphic Systems, Preston, UK) in the Urbanite-equipped presshall of the Bulletin during the inaugural Single Width Users Group meeting in 1986
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