Only six months after opening its new factory in Tsukuba, Komori has geared up production to meet “significant growth” in demand for its offset presses worldwide. The company has opened up the next phase of assembly and testing lines in response to the popularity of its flagship Lithrone S40 in the B1 market.
Production has also been increased at the Yamagata plant to reflect the considerable impact of the new Lithrone S29 launched at IPEX, and the popularity of the four colour Spica series. Over 100 presses have been ordered worldwide in the last 10 weeks, says Komori.
At 38,500m2, the ultra modern Tsukuba plant is Komori's largest factory and its vast capacity allows the company to keep pace with targeted increased manufacturing over the next 10-15 years.
President and ceo Yoshiharu Komori states: "Sales have risen 13.5 per cent in the last year to Yen 127B (approx. £635M and €920M), and we are on track to exceed our target of Yen 150B (£750M and €1.09B) turnover in the next three years”.
In addition to maintaining a solid presence in Western Europe, a substantial part of Komori's 16 per cent sales boost in the region is attributed to considerable investment by printers in the new markets of Eastern Europe, particularly in Komori web offset presses.
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