Equipment manufacturers

Ulrich Hermann will officially step down at the firm’s financial year-end in March

Heidelberg board down to two after another departure

Heidelberg has announced the shock departure of its ‘digital transformation’ evangelist Dr Ulrich Hermann, with the firm’s management board reduced to just two people as a result.

The Oberon RTR3300 can take two 1.6m-wide rolls to double capacity

Agfa to bring latest RTR wide-format tech to Fespa 2020

Agfa is to demo its new Oberon RTR3300 large-format roll-to-roll printer at Fespa 2020.

Focus does as much manufacturing in-house as possible

Best of British: A focus on innovation

Garage start-ups leading to greater things are legendary in the US tech sector – Hewlett-Packard in 1938 and Apple in 1976 are genuine examples – but tend to be rarer in the UK. However, one example...

HP Latex 3100 printer uses HP’s thermal inkjet printheads with the water-based latex inks

Milestones in inkjet

Of all the different print technologies currently in use, inkjet is probably the most interesting for its sheer versatility, working across documents and wide-format, labels and packaging and even 3D...

Epic DM was intended to capitalise on renewed growth in the direct mail market

Star product: BlueCrest Epic Direct Mail

An automated, easy-to-use DM inserter that pushes the envelope.

A B1 digital press with the attributes of Nanography

Star product: Komori Impremia NS40

Komori is preparing to launch the Impremia NS40, a B1-format press that uses Landa’s Nanographic printing technology. It joins a growing sector of presses that are all likely to make a splash at Drupa...

Packaging Innovations: Broadening the debate

You can’t talk about packaging these days without being keenly aware that there is an impassioned and important debate about its impact – particularly plastic packaging – on the environment, and...

Xerox increased its hostile takeover offer for HP earlier this week

HP to update on Q1 earnings before responding to Xerox

HP wants its shareholders to have “full information” on its earnings and inherent value before it responds to Xerox’s increased bid for the company.

Heidelberg recorded nine-month sales of €1.69bn

Heidelberg confirms Q3 results and outlines outlook

Heidelberg has confirmed the key figures from its preliminary Q3 report, which was published last month, and outlined its plans to “sustainably improve its profitability and liquidity”.

The deal marks the second attempted purchase of MBO in the past 18 months

Komori to acquire MBO Group

Komori has signed a deal to acquire MBO Group, with the aim of making the German paper folding machine manufacturer a Komori subsidiary.