Industry Companies
By Staff -- graphic arts online, 7/1/2003
MAN Roland has announced that it will reduce its staff by 240 people within the company's sheetfed sector in Germany's Rhine Main area, which includes Geisenheim, Mainhausen, and Offenbach. While an additional reduction of 300 jobs in the web offset sector is being discussed, this figure is not yet final.
Quebecor World Inc. has been awarded a multi-year contract extension by Hachette Filipacchi Media to print all of the latter's 18 core magazines, including Car and Driver, Elle, Home, Road & Track, and Woman's Day. The deal extends a 20-year relationship between the two companies.
Sun Chemical and InkSure Technologies Inc. have announced a strategic marketing alliance called SunSure, whereby the companies will jointly produce machine-readable ink-based brand and document authentication solutions.
American Spirit Graphics will install the first Heidel-berg Sunday 4000 Web press in the U.S. early next year at its headquarters facility in Minneapolis, Minn. The order marks the 200th Sunday press sold worldwide. California's Office of State Publishing, Sacramento, has installed a Muller Martini Prima Amrys automated saddle stitcher.
Moore Wallace Response Marketing, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, will install three new Xeikon DCP 500 D digital printing systems.
French publisher Groupe Amaury has inked a deal to install six MAN Roland Regioman web presses by the end of the year, representing the single largest purchase of these presses to date. Each four-color press is equipped with four eight-couple towers and five reel stands.
Classic Color, Broadview, Ill., has installed a six-color Komori Lithrone 40 press.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has acquired folding carton producer Arko Paper Products Company Inc.
Appleton is investing nearly $5 million to upgrade the coating capabilities and control systems of its No. 13 thermal coater at its plant in Appleton, Wis.
Ken Kodama has been appointed corporate secretary and director of sales–sheetfed presses for Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses. Kodama succeeds Henry Sagesaka, who returns to Mitsubishi's Tokyo headquarters following a four-year assignment in the U.S.
Content management concern Interwoven, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Atlanta-based digital asset management company MediaBin.
