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PrintCity Alliance Strategy – Taking Drupa to You! drupa 2012, Düsseldorf, May 7 – PrintCity plans to maximise on its alliance member synergies & success at drupa, by delivering a series of customer focused learning & networking events around the world, in the second half of the year. PrintCity members will share knowledge on their drupa Hot Topics Digital & Offset Printing, Value Added Printing & Packaging, Tune-Up Your Web Press and Lean & Green Opportunities. This strategy of bringing valuable information, new business models and opportunities seen at PrintCity’s drupa area ‘to a city near you’, is a continuation of our long-term activities. The PrintCity Road Show focuses on a series of events – Taking drupa to you!
Safe printing – safe packaging with WEILBURGER Graphics at drupa 2012 Also this year, WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH is present as exhibitor in Düsseldorf during drupa and informs its customers and prospective clients about its wide-ranging product portfolio of varnishes, adhesives and inks.
Besides the very high-quality of the products, the safe packaging in the food industry is one of the key issues during the trade fair. WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH has recently re-catalogued its complete range of products and re-evaluated it in terms of its food conformity in accordance with current statutory requirements and the recommendations issued by the key testing institutes and certifying bodies FABES and ISEGA as well as by the Swiss Commodities Act SR 817.023.21. In its recently published product manual, WEILBURGER Graphics presents its reworked product class list and provides its customers and other interested parties with comprehensive information on the application options of the individual product classes in direct and indirect contact with food in accordance with current statutory ... PrintCity Alliance at drupa – 28 World Leading Organisations Participating in Hall 6 The PrintCity Alliance has 28 world leading organisations participating in its drupa 2012 exhibition activities in Hall 6, from May 3-16. Under the headline PRINT: SEEN! LEAN & GREEN, the alliance is featuring four Hot Topic attractions to interest and inform visitors from around the world:
Organisations Networking Together The focus of the PrintCity Alliance is to encourage industry networking & knowledge sharing under the theme ‘Connection of Competence’. Twenty eight world leading companies in printing, packaging & publishing are working together to deliver ‘must see’ shared PrintCity attractions and events throughout drupa: ...PrintCity/WPCF International Environmental Conference – May 10 at drupa – Final Speaker Programme PrintCity and the World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) confirm the final speaker line up for their jointly organised Lean & Green International Environmental Conference taking place in the Congress Centre at drupa on Thursday May 10, from 9:00 to 15:00. Presentations include the exploitation of Lean & Green opportunities to help grow business, plus some possibly controversial observations about the progress that our industry is making. Final Speaker List Fourteen presenters from around the world will speak at the May 10 conference, expressing different points of view about Lean & Green topics and methods:
The technical edge – SENOFLEX® inks and coatings from WEILBURGER Graphics For some time now it is impossible to imagine the packaging industry without the corrugated direct printing. The printing systems become steadier and the achievable qualities of the printing results rise. For quite some time WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH also offers under the product class SENOFLEX® a co-ordinated ink and coating series for this market. It resulted from the specific requirements for special formulations for these products from the customers
Ink quality through: • Ideal processing times best print technical performance of the ink at the plate or rather at the anilox roller while at the same time low cleaning effort • Optimized discharging properties for an excellent ink transfer to the plate/printing substrate while at the same time reduced adding of the anilox roller in regard to the cleaning intervals. • High concentrated ink series low dot gain, constant vignetted screen tints, good drying characteristics for an excellent printing ... manroland GB deal announced Some of the uncertainty over the future of manroland in the UK came to an end today when manroland sheetfed GmbH announced that it has acquired the sheetfed business and assets of manroland Great Britain Ltd, which went into Administration on 5th December 2011, following the insolvency of its German parent, manroland AG. UK Administrators were called in due to liabilities in the final salary pension scheme no longer being covered by the parent company.
manroland Great Britain Ltd had been trading since 1999 and was established when manroland Germany acquired PPS, its former UK distributor. Over forty other subsidiaries around the world were part of a deal to acquire the sheetfed business of manroland AG, including over a million square feet of production facilities in Germany, by British industrialist Tony Langley last month. The UK business was not included in the Langley deal. A new company, manroland sheetfed (UK) Ltd has been established and began trading from the same premises in Mitcham, south west London today with 37 employees. Adam Robotham (38) who joined manroland in 1998 as Commercial Sales Manager and was promoted to sheetfed sales director last y ... PrintCity Alliance – One Stop Knowledge Centre – PRINT: SEEN! LEAN & GREEN focus in drupa Hall 6 PrintCity Alliance members & partners announce their detailed plans for drupa 2012, offering visitors access to their Connection of Competence knowledge sharing and industry leading hot topics in Hall 6, May 3-16. Our PrintCity drupa theme is: PRINT: SEEN! LEAN & GREEN. A shared networking environment will be created under this headline by Alliance members & partners with ‘hot topic’ visitor attractions located in the centre of Hall 6.
read more | attachment | 1 comment | read more | quote | subscribe post Langley appoints his own man to head manroland sheetfedTony Langley, the British investor behind the acquisition of the manroland sheetfed business, has appointed German Alfred Rothlaender as head of manroland sheetfed systems GmbH. Mr Rothlaender (66) was formerly head of machinery builder Claudius Peters near Hamburg when Langley acquired the business in 2001. Mr Rothlaender then went on to head the Piller Group, a producer of heavy electrical systems for data centres near Hanover, between 2005 and 2008, following Langley’s acquisition of that business, before retiring mid 2010.
But it was to be a short retirement, the industry veteran kept in touch with his former boss and said that he was ready to come back should Langley make a further acquisition in Germany. “Alfred knows exactly how we work when taking on a new business” said Langley. “…he is a vastly experienced MD who I know can be relied on during the transition between the former institutional management style of manroland AG and the leaner more flexible way that our companies do things” ... WEILBURGER Graphics upgrades their service range The WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH based in franconian Gerhardshofen, exploited the short winter break of the festive days to renew and upgrade their capacities and service range. In addition to the further development of the storage and shipping department, the company, together with specialists of their trade, RSW-Orga GmbH, implemented a new inventory management system with integrated CRM module. The RSW-Orga GmbH offers a fully developed industry solution for the chemical industry, which has been engineered in a long-lasting collaboration with medium-sized enterprises, many of them members of the association of the coating industry. A formula oriented batch production, an item-drum-logic specific for chemicals as well as a continuous hazardous material management are, amongst others, integrated in the solution.
Furthermore through the activation of the CRM module a further improvement of the service is reached with the goal to attend to and advise the customers of the WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH in the best possible way. In the area of storage, the already available capacities at the headquarters in Gerhardshofen have been expanded again and so space for more ... British investor acquires manroland sheetfed division“Ich bin ein Roländer” An investor solution has been found for the sheet fed business of insolvent manroland AG, just days after a sale of the web machines business to German Possehl group was announced. British entrepreneur Tony Langley and the privately owned engineering group, Langley Holdings plc (www.langleyholdings.com), have emerged as the investors behind a 100% takeover of the sheet fed printing equipment division and its properties portfolio in Offenbach, together with manroland’s international marketing organization in more than 40 countries.
“I am very pleased with the solution which will provide a long-term perspective to the Offenbach location and the sheet fed printing business”, said Werner Schneider, Insolvency Administrator. Roughly 860 employees in Offenbach will be taken over...” …Tony Langley is well known as a long term investor who acts strategically. I am convinced that a lasting perspective has been found for manroland’s sheet fed printing business“, Schneider went on to say. ... 1337362122  1337362122 © 2011 by @PrintersLounge - a service of D&S - Dort und Schmitt | Memberships & Costs | Terms & conditions | Imprint | Advertising
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