Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), Germany, and Landa
Corporation of Rehovot, Israel, today announced a global strategic
partnership to collaborate on the development of Nanographic
Printing™ Presses to expand digital offerings for mainstream
printing, including short-to-medium runs, variable data and quick
turnaround printing. Heidelberg intends to develop, manufacture,
sell and service new generation of digital printing presses based
upon Landa Nanographic Printing™ technology.
Bernhard Schreier, Heidelberg CEO and Chairman of the
Management Board, says, "Heidelberg is today, on the eve of
drupa 2012, announcing this strategic partnership to signal the
market Heidelberg's commitment to the long-term success of its
customers. As market leader, innovator and integrator, we are
keenly aware of our customers' need for high volume production,
cost effective printing of short runs, and quick turnaround times.
It is those very needs that led us to develop our benchmark
Anicolor systems and the very successful partnership with Ricoh on
dry toner based digital presses. And it is those same needs that
led us to embrace Landa Nanography for a new generation of digital
presses for commercial printing. The fact is, our customers need
both offset and digital. In addition to our Linoprint C and
Linoprint L offering, we will be able to complete our solutions to
address our customer demands with Landa Nanography. The Landa
Nanographic Printing process will enable us to offer digital
versatility with the strength of offset for which Heidelberg is
renowned."
Benny Landa, founder, Chairman and CEO of Landa Corporation,
says, "The Heidelberg-Landa alliance is a major step towards
achieving our strategic goal of industry-wide adoption of
Nanography for mainstream digital printing. As the market leader,
Heidelberg's adoption of Landa Nanographic Printing for its
new generation digital presses is a clear message to the
entire market: For the foreseeable future, offset and digital will
not only co-exist, but will complement one another - offset for
medium-to-longer jobs and digital for short-to-medium run lengths,
not to mention variable data printing. At last there is a digital
printing technology that has both the speed and customer economics
to fill that role - and Heidelberg is certainly well-positioned to
take it to market."
At the heart of the Nanographic Printing process is Landa's
water-based NanoInkTM. Comprised of pigment particles only tens of
nanometres in size, these nano-pigments are powerful absorbers of
light and enable unprecedented image qualities. Landa Nanographic
Printing is characterised by ultra-sharp dots of extremely high
uniformity, high gloss fidelity and the broadest CMYK colour gamut.
Landa Nanographic Printing employs ink ejectors to create the
digital ink images which are applied to the printing stock in a
process that can operate at extremely high speeds creating images
with remarkable abrasion and scratch resistance. Most notably, it
can print on any off-the-shelf substrate, from coated and uncoated
paper stocks to recycled carton; from newsprint to plastic
packaging films - all without requiring any kind of pre-treatment
or special coating - and no post-drying. Adding to this cost
benefit is the fact that Nanographic images are only 500 nanometres
thick - about half the thickness of offset images - enabling Landa
NanoInkTM to produce the lowest cost-per-page digital images in the
industry: All of this from a water-based, energy-efficient and
eco-friendly process.
Benny Landa concludes, "I take great personal pride in
announcing this global partnership between our two companies.
Heidelberg's reputation for quality and technological innovation is
legendary, as is the extraordinary level of customer loyalty which
Heidelberg enjoys. Heidelberg's technological and market strengths,
as well as its focus on excellence, are a great fit with Landa and
we are very excited about this important alliance."
Figure 1: One day prior to drupa 2012, Bernhard Schreier,
CEO and Chairman of the Management Board Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen AG, is announcing the strategic partnership with
Landa Corporation.
Figure 2: Benny Landa, founder, Chairman and CEO of Landa
Corporation considers the Heidelberg-Landa alliance as a major step
towards achieving Landa's strategic goal of industry-wide adoption
of Nanography for mainstream digital printing.
For further information about Heidelberg and image material,
please visit the Press Lounge of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG at
www.heidelberg.com.
Heidelberg at drupa 2012
Today's print media service providers are faced with a
dynamic and challenging market. Companies that want to achieve
success in an environment of this kind need to optimize their
business models by seizing on market trends in the industry and
using them to their advantage.
During drupa 2012, from May 3 to 16, Heidelberg will be
showcasing in Hall 1 an extended portfolio of products and
solutions that have been developed specifically for the latest
market requirements. The trade show presentation, held under the
banner "Discover HEI", will center on lean production (HEI
Productivity), green printing (HEI Eco), web-to-print (HEI
Integration), short-run-printing (HEI Flexibility), differentiation
through coatings and special effects (HEI Emotions), the future of
packaging printing (HEI End), and gaining an edge through the
latest know-how (HEI School). The company is exhibiting solutions
that enable print shops and postpress businesses to meet the latest
market requirements in full.
www.drupa.heidelberg.com
For further information please contact:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Public Relations
Thomas Fichtl
Tel.: +49 (0) 6221 92-5900
Mobile: +49 (0) 173 318 6947
E-Mail:
Thomas.Fichtl@heidelberg.com
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Trade Press
Dirk Henrich
Tel.: +49 (0) 6221 92-5910
Mobile: +49 (0) 173 249 5737
E-Mail:
Dirk.Henrich@heidelberg.com
About Landa Corporation
Landa Corporation was founded by Benny Landa in 2002
following the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Company of Indigo,
which Landa had founded 25 years earlier. Landa Corporation has
four operating units: Landa Digital Printing, which develops
Nanographic PrintingTM systems for the commercial, packaging and
publishing markets; Landa Labs, which develops alternative energy
technology as well as nano-materials; Landa Ventures, which invests
in promising technology companies; and Landa Fund, a philanthropic
entity.
For more information on Landa, visit us at
www.landanano.com or follow
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may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions and such statements should be viewed
with according caution. Landa Corporation Ltd. shall under no
circumstance be liable for technical or editorial omissions or
errors.
For further information please contact:
EMEA & APJ:
Ray Goodacre
Incus Media Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)1737 294001
E-Mail:
pr@landa-corp.com
Americas:
Helene Cohen Smith
HSPR
Tel: +1 321 388 6511
smith@helenesmith.com
Israel:
Orit Zrubavel
Allmedia PR Israel
Tel: +972-3-9235383.
E-Mail:
orit@allmedia.co.il
Important note:
This press release contains forward-looking statements
based on assumptions and estimations by the Management Board of
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft. Even though the
Management Board is of the opinion that those assumptions and
estimations are realistic, the actual future development and
results may deviate substantially from these forward-looking
statements due to various factors, such as changes in the
macro-economic situation, in the exchange rates, in the interest
rates and in the print media industry. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen
Aktiengesellschaft gives no warranty and does not assume liability
for any damages in case the future development and the projected
results do not correspond with the forward-looking statements
contained in this press release.