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Heidelberg: orders up, share price down

Just been re-reading Heidelberg's post-drupa announcement about the amount of sales it made at the show. When I first looked at this announcement I had to do a double-take at the figure of 550 sheetfed presses sold. A colleague queried the subsequent story: "Presses? Are you sure it's not...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 05-24-2012
Big week for the future shape of press manufacturing

What a week this is shaping up to be in press manufacturer land. Yesterday Heidelberg, which is of course the world's biggest company of this ilk, announced that it would be cutting a further 2,000 jobs, almost 13% of its workforce, as part of a new efficiency programme aimed at restoring an acceptable...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 01-18-2012
Sterling work

How fantastic for our very own Sterling Press to have the first top-speed perfecting version of Heidelberg's new Speedmaster XL 105 in the world. That's quite a coup for the Kettering crew, I think. Not so long ago new kit like this would always be installed at companies not too far away from...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 12-15-2011
Manroland machinations

Speculation surrounding what will happen next at Manroland is throwing up some mind-boggling prospects. I read one report that mooted a solution involving a mega-merger between Manroland, Heidelberg and KBA to make some sort of ultimate behemoth in German printing equipment manufacturing. Can you even...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 12-12-2011
Perfect storm capsizes Manroland

It is surely inconceivable that Manroland will not continue in some form. Surely??? That said, up until Friday it seemed inconceivable that this bastion of the German equipment engineering industry with a history stretching back more than 160 years would be allowed to fall into insolvency. It just shows...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 11-28-2011
Now things get really interesting

At last, the news we've been waiting for for the best part of a year - Heidelberg has revealed the identity of its digital partner and it is Ricoh. Dammit, I only had them at 10/1 - both parties really have done an enviably/annoyingly good job of keeping this under wraps. Now we know the who, and...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-23-2011
Additional name in the digital frame

Still we wait with bated breath to hear more about Heidelberg's new digital partner. I wonder whether next week's open house at its Tamworth base will provide some further clues, or indeed confirmation? Can't wait to find out. Meanwhile, PrintWeek's recent interview with Stephan Plenz...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-02-2011
Competition in VLF hotting up

Here's a plant list to conjure with: one eight-colour KBA Rapida 162a; one six-colour KBA Rapida 162a; two five-colour KBA Rapida 162as; one four-colour KBA Rapida 162a. Can you guess where it is yet? Gold star to everyone who immediately piped up with "Butler Tanner & Dennis of course"...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 12-07-2010
KBA goes public with competition concerns

This week we can expect further revealing figures about the performance of the industry's major press suppliers. At the end of last week KBA released preliminary results for 2009 that included some sobering stats: sales overall were down 29% on the prior year, and a whopping 40% on 2007. I don't...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-08-2010
What will the 'new normal' be?

December, and that end of the year feeling is becoming more and more overwhelming. Thinking ahead to the fresh year that awaits us, what, I wonder, will the "new normal" be as we enter 2010? A thought-provoking meeting yesterday with Christian Knapp and Mark Nixon at KBA UK yielded some illuminating...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 12-01-2009

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