manroland Greater China announced today that it has signed an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company to become the exclusive distributor of Kodak newspaper prepress solutions (including equipment, workflow software, and consumables) in China. With their respective strengths and advantages complementing each other, this cooperation is set to herald a new chapter in the successful development of the two printing heavyweights.

　　As one of the largest digital solutions suppliers in the graphic arts industry, Kodak is an innovation leader in the digital, commercial, and package printing markets. “We are working with manroland Greater China to further expand the availability of prepress and printing solutions for newspaper professionals,” said Andrew Copley, Chief Operating Officer, Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group, and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “This new arrangement provides exciting opportunities for Kodak to expand its presence in the Chinese market and to deliver proven newspaper production solutions to a growing base of customers. From our new KODAK GENERATION NEWS System and KODAK THERMALNEWS GOLD Digital Plates to the KODAK NEWSMANAGER Workflow System, KODAK SQUARESPOT Technology and KODAK STACCATO Screening, we offer a complete range of solutions for just about any need.”

　　It is well known that manroland is one of the world's largest printing system manufacturers. It is also the global market leader in webfed presses and the second largest manufacturer of sheetfed presses. Out of every three newspapers sold, one piece is  produced on a manroland press. With manroland’s competitive advantages in the Chinese market and its distinguished tailor-made services, this collaboration will surely bring about win-win cooperation as it seeks to break new ground in print. “With our years of successful experience in Chinese market, we will work with Kodak to penetrate into this huge market. We believe that we will be able to achieve a win-win result with the efforts of both sides. ” commented Marco Faulhaber, the Managing Director of manroland Greater China.

　　The manroland team will keep close contact with customers on the coming changes in operations during the conversion. With the “WE ARE PRINT” company slogan, manroland will continue to provide high quality service for all customers (including the existing agents).

　　For the details of the cooperation and product range responsible by manroland Greater China, please feel free to call the hotline of manroland Greater China’s printing supplies: 852-2965-6290. We at manroland are always happy to help you.

(Front row from left) Marco Faulhaber,  the Managing Director of the manroland Greater China and Wang Bing, the Managing Director of Kodak Graphic Communications Group Greater China signed cooperation agreement
 (Back row from left) Thomas Luk, Head of Printing Supplies of manroland Greater China; Steffen E. Dittmann, General Manager of manroland Greater China Web Press; Markus Rall, Member of the Executive Board; Gustavo Oviedo, Managing Director of Kodak Graphic Communications Group Asia-Pacific Region; Andrew Copley, Chief Operating Officer of Kodak Graphic Communications Group; Gerhard Janssen, Executive Vice President of manroland printcom