Offset Printing

Report on Conditions and Disaster Countermeasures for the Tohoku-Chiho Taiheiyo-Oki Earthquake -Second Edition / between March 21 through 27, 2011-

Tuesday 29. March 2011 - The Disaster Countermeasures Team established a base in Yamagata Prefecture on March 21, 2011. Next day, they went into Miyagi Prefecture and started to repair damaged presses in the plants of Komori customers.

By March 27, almost all Komori presses in Sendai City were repaired except for some web presses which need final inspection for production. Team members were divided into small teams and sent to much further afflicted areas to check and make necessary repairs to presses in the plants of customers
The Disaster Countermeasures Office deployed more than 80 service and heavy-duty lifting engineers with more than 20 vehicles per day to the Tohoku area at peak times from March 21 to March 27, 2011. These engineers are working now with local sales people to check our customers’ condition and repair presses if necessary.
Some news regarding a printing company in Sendai was uploaded to the following URLs, although the sites are in Japanese. This printing company is a loyal Komori customer and almost all repair work has been completed.
Reconstruction of printing company is proceeding at a high pace! “We want to send updated information to residents by printed paper!” Sendai, Miyagi Pref. (2011.3.26 20:07) http://sankei.jp.msn.com/region/news/110326/myg11032620440007-n1.htm Rush to reconstruct printing company in Sendai! “It is important to distribute information by paper media!” Sendai, Miyagi Pref. (2011.3.27 01:44) http://sankei.jp.msn.com/region/news/110327/myg11032701450000-n1.htm
Similar contents appeared in the Miyagi Edition of the Sankei Newspaper on March 27, 2011.
We, at Komori Corporation, are strengthening our support for servicing presses and equipment used by our customers in the afflicted areas.