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.
P.28-31
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.
P.32-33
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.
P.34-35
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.
