Industry Companies
Staff -- graphic arts online, 10/1/2001
Heidelberg USA, Kennesaw, Ga., has aligned its operations into four primary business sectors and named senior vice presidents to head each. The new units and their managers include Digital: Bill Blair; Postpress: Larry Tanowitz; Sheetfed: Soren Larsen; and Web Systems: Mark Levin. In addition, senior vice president Donn Goldstick will be in charge of sales and service, and vice president James Martin will head marketing. Niels M. Winther, a 34-year veteran with Heidelberg, assumes responsibility as head of Heidelberg's Market Center North America, which includes the U.S. and Canada. Reporting to Winther is Richard Armstrong, president of Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment, Ltd.
Webcraft's Chalfont, Pa.-based plant has been named as one of the top 10 manufacturing facilities in IndustryWeek magazine's list of America's Best Plants for 2001.
Müller Martini, Zofingen, Switzerland, has announced that effective January 1, 2002, it is taking over the Book Technology Group syndicate, of which it is a member, along with machinery manufacturers Horauf Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Profinish SA, and VBF Buchtechnologies GmbH.
Georgia-Pacific (G-P) Corporation, Atlanta, has announced that it would eliminate 250 jobs at its paper mill in Camas, Wash., as it shuts down four small, high-cost white paper machines and associated pulping capacity there. In early August, G-P sold to Domtar Inc., Montreal, its standalone white paper mills for $1.65 billion.
Goss Graphic Systems, Inc., Westmont, Ill., plans to shift all manufacturing to overseas sites, necessitating the shutdown of its plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At the same time, its parent, Goss Holdings, Inc., intends to eliminate some $290 million in secured bank and unsecured bond debt.
MAN Roland, Offenbach, Germany, has entered a sales referral agreement with Océ Printing Systems USA, Boca Raton, Fla., to equip American printers with its Dico line of digital color printing systems.
Quebecor World Inc., Montreal, announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase the European printing assets of Hachette Filipacchi Medias, Levallois-Perret, France.
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Conn., announced its intent to transfer its office products manufacturing works—which amounts to about $1 billion in costs annually, or half of the company's overall manufacturing operations—to Flextronics, a $12 billion Singapore-based electronics manufacturing services company.
