Offset Printing

Higher sales and lower costs at Cohber Press in the United States thanks to Performance Plus from Heidelberg

Wednesday 04. March 2015 - Sales up 25 percent and 42 percent higher productivity

Fewer print jobs and rising costs were making life difficult for U.S. commercial print shop Cohber Press with its 82-strong workforce and sales of US$ 14 million. Around a year ago, the management team therefore decided to try Performance Plus, the partnership-based consulting concept from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) that aims to make print shops more cost-effective using lean management methods. The company is now seeing impressive initial results. “Performance Plus has significantly boosted our capacities, based on the same equipment and headcount, and sales have risen by 25 percent,” says Cohber’s CEO and owner Eric Webber. In the space of a single year, Cohber has succeeded in improving its overall productivity by an average of 42 percent and creating around 1,800 hours of additional machine capacity. The company has also achieved savings totaling US$ 115,000.