Despite bleak worldwide economic news that had dominated the media in the preceding weeks, GRAPH EXPO® 2008 exceeded expectations and enjoyed brisk business. While overall attendance was down 12.5 percent over the record-setting GRAPH EXPO 2007 show, interested qualified buyers from 8,800 individual companies—marking a slight increase in the number of unique companies over last year's show.
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL—Stephan Carter, who ushered in the Lithrone S sheetfed press era and drove significant growth of market share across all product lines at Komori America, is leaving his role of president and COO, effective Nov. 30. He will be replaced by Kazuyoshi "Kosh" Miyao, the current executive vice president of marketing and product development.
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL—November 4, 2008—Komori Corp. announced that Stephan Carter, president and COO of Komori America Corp., will be leaving Komori America effective November 30, 2008. “While I will miss my association with Komori, I look forward to the challenges that lie ahead,” says Carter. During his seven year tenure at Komori America, Carter effectively launched the Komori Lithrone S series and drove significant growth of market share across all product lines.
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL—October 15, 2008—At Graph Expo 08, Komori will demonstrate three state of the art printing presses focused on helping printers maximize productivity and profitability. Under the banner “The Journey is What Moves You,” Komori will demonstrate three printing presses that will show attendees how easy it is to get jobs on and off a Komori press—critical in reducing cost and waste.
MIAMI—Solo Printing will hold an open house September 25 to celebrate the installation of its six-color Komori System 38S web press at its newly expanded, 100,000-square-foot facility here. The web and sheetfed printer also acquired high-speed saddlestitchers, cutters and folders.
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL—September 16, 2008—Komori America Corp., a manufacturer of sheetfed and web offset printing presses, today announced it has installed a new, fully automated six-color, System 38S web press at Solo Printing's expanded 100,000 square-foot facility in Miami. Solo Printing was founded in 1985 and primarily serves the retail, communications, and electronics industries printing brochures, publications, self-mailers, catalogs, and a variety of other materials.
OF ALL the avenues a general commercial printer can take for increasing its profit margin, raising prices to customers is the one option that isn’t likely to produce the desired results. Indeed, it takes a hearty printer to compete in the general commercial realm—one more apt to accept smaller margins, offer a full array of services, become the low-cost provider and be able to find ways to drive costs out of the system. Oh, and don’t forget quality. The implication is that quality is sometimes winked at in low-cost scenarios. . .your competition wants you to believe that. All of the aforementioned outlets are
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—Komori Corp. plans to invest US$95 million in the latest expansion phase of its flagship Tsukuba factory in Tsukuba City, Japan, the company announced during Drupa. Upon its scheduled completion in December 2009, Komori claims that the Tsukuba plant will have effectively doubled in size to become the world’s largest printing press manufacturing facility. Yoshiharu Komori, president and CEO of Komori Corp., said the press manufacturer’s continued strong growth in worldwide market share could enable it to achieve a market share of 30 percent within five years. The company is also investing $14 million in its new international Graphic Technology Center at Tsukuba,
MIAMI—June 19, 2008—Solo Printing, Inc., a Miami-based commercial printer, recently completed a major facilities expansion giving the company a total of 100,000 sq. ft. of production, office and warehousing space, and is currently in the process of installing a Komori 38S 6-unit, full-web press along with additional high speed saddle stitchers, cutters and folders. The expansion during an economic downturn underscores the company’s continued growth - the result of increasing market penetration throughout the entire Eastern seaboard. Manny Hernandez, president, stated, “Our investment in facilities and in new technology enables us to increase our dominant position in providing quality, cost effective products and
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—June 17, 2008—Sheetfed and web offset press manufacturer Komori today announced that drupa 2008 has been a successful platform for numerous press deals around the world. Demonstrations on the Komori stand attracted huge crowds, especially the newly launched Lithrone SX models and the System 38S web press. As well as being the only 16 page web on show, the System 38 also broke a world record during one demo, completing three different jobs under 13 minutes. The packed audience watched as 15,000 perfect sheets of each job, involving two plate changes and a format change were produced before their eyes as the press
