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ABB and manroland to present strong new partnership at the IFRA Expo
Monday 27. September 2010 - Process management and postpress integration in newspaper production
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has announced a partnership agreement with the press manufacturer manroland that will be presented at the IFRA Expo in Hamburg, Germany. ABB is the integrated workflow, press control and press retrofit specialist for the newspaper industry.
Under this new non-exclusive agreement ABBs Center of Excellence for Printing will provide high-end process management and postpress solutions that will be integrated within manrolands printnet product family, allowing newspaper printing companies to benefit from the new partnership.
“We are glad to offer our customers this groundbreaking completion of our product portfolio,” says Lodovico de Briganti, Vice President Marketing and Sales printnet, at manroland. “High-quality tools for planning, managing, and integrating all resources and the whole production process will make their businesses more professional, transparent, economical, in one word: more successful.” Günther Glas, Vice President Business unit printnet web fed at manroland, adds: “Our cooperation with ABB means bundled expertise from leading companies, a highly professional offer from one source, clearly defined contacts and interfaces. It will make manroland equipment even more useful and attractive for our customers.”
“We are delighted to be able to complete the manroland product portfolio with one of our absolute strengths: integrated system solutions for effective and efficient process management” says Boris Falk, Head of Sales at ABBs Printing Center of Excellence. Christian Villiger, global head of ABBs activities in printing, adds “the cooperation will enlarge our installed base for software solutions. This is good news for present and future customers, as every additional customer brings new ideas that further improve the system capabilities.”
ABB complements manrolands product range with solutions for production planning, insert management, and vehicle planning. printnet Cockpit is the core of the newspaper production, one instrument to manage all resources and plan all processes, even for several sites, from prepress through press and mailroom to distribution. printnet InsertManager is the tool that finishes with the often chaotic insert management by integrating the whole insert business workflow from marketing to production. printnet DeliveryPlanner provides order-oriented distribution management by integrating and visualizing all production and transport systems.