Worldwide Growth Ignites Significant Expansion of Komori’s Flagship Tsukuba Factory in Japan

The Tsukuba plant opened for full production in December 2005 to respond to the demand for its Lithrone S40 sheetfed series. Phase three of development will add a further 27,000 sqm resulting in a 60,000 sqm ultra modern site integrating manufacturing, assembly, testing, research and development, demonstration, and training into one highly automated and highly efficient operation. The manufacture of Web Offset and Banknote presses, previously handled by the Sekiyado Plant, will be moved to Tsukuba. Here Komori will centralize production of all its large format presses at one, state-of-the-art site. As a result, manufacturing will be streamlined to further reduce lead times and cut production costs of Komori’s fastest-selling presses. Meanwhile, Sekiyado will focus on manufacture of component parts. Assembly of the popular Lithrone S29 and smaller format presses will remain at the Yamagata Plant.