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CONTENTS |
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Feature
President Komori on the Company and its Future
In an excerpt from the Komori fiscal 2009 annual report, President Komori directly addresses the state of Komori Corporation amid the recession as well as the future of offset printing in light of the rise of digital options. |
| P.10-13 |
Feature: Komori-Chambon Users
Making Cartons, East and West
Interviews with the chief executives of Top Hill Pack, a Dutch start-up with ambitious plans, and Hokuetsu Package, a spinoff of one of Japan’s major paper producers. Although both use Chambon machines to produce mainly milk cartons, their different markets compel dissimilar strategies for growth. |
| P.14-27 |
User Profiles
Forging Ahead with Komori Automation
Advanced automation throughout the production process is one critical haracteristic of the industry’s winners. Close-up accounts of Wansheng Color Printing in China; Pancrom Indústria Gráfica of São Paulo, Brazil; Jones ackaging in London, Ontario, Canada; Kyodo Nation Printing and Siam Toppan Packaging, two Japanese-Thai joint ventures in Samutprakarn, Thailand; Arti Grafiche Boccia of Salerno, Italy; and Cloître Imprimeurs of Saint-Thonan, France, the winner of a major CIPPI 2009 award. |
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Topics
New Komori Service Initiatives
The Komori Service Team for China has been unified and upgraded. In Europe more than 400 visitors flocked to KIE in Utrecht to take in the LSX-640 that went on display. And the Komori Graphic Technology Center opened in the new Tsukuba Plant. On-the-ground reports from all three locales. |
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Exhibitions
Showing the Colors around the World
Komori showed new equipment and technologies at shows in Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo and Zhengzhou. The presses and the people in pictures. |
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Komori Calendar
Dawning: Komori 2010 Calendar
Mitsuo Katsui creates images of the printing press and the parts that make it come alive in the Komori 2010 Calendar. |
