LABELEXPO 2015
PRESSBOOK
KONICA MINOLTA LABELEXPO 2015
PRESS CONFERENCE & BIOGRAPHIES
KONICA MINOLTA PRESS CONFERENCE @LABELEXPO: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 15:15 – 15:45 PRESS OFFICE (LOWER LEVEL IN FRONT OF HALL 7)
TOSHITAKA UEMURA POSITION General Manager Professional Print Business Operations Marketing Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc. RECENT FUNCTIONS As General Manager, Toshitaka Uemura is responsible for the entire Professional Print Business of Konica Minolta, Inc. Before joining Konica Minolta in 1993, he worked at Konishiroku Photo Industry for several years. 1993 2002 2007 2010
Manager, Graphic Arts Division at Konica Minolta Manager, Product Planning at Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. Senior Vice President, Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging USA, Inc. Vice President, Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc.
TOPIC @LABELEXPO 2015 – PRESS CONFERENCE Toshitaka Uemura provides his personal view on the champion story of Konica Minolta in production printing and provides latest market figures. Furthermore, he outlines the future strategy of the company for the converter market.
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KONICA MINOLTA LABELEXPO 2015
PRESS CONFERENCE & BIOGRAPHIES
OLAF LORENZ POSITION General Manager International Marketing Division Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH RECENT FUNCTIONS As General Manager, Olaf Lorenz is responsible for the entire International Marketing Division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH. He is also a member of the European management board. Before joining Konica Minolta in July 1999, he worked as a national pre-sales engineer at NRG Group. 1999 2004 2005 2009 2011
Technical Product Manager, Minolta Europe GmbH Manager Office Group, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH General Manager, International Marketing Division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Managing Director of dots GmbH Member of the Management Board, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH
TOPIC @LABELEXPO 2015 – PRESS CONFERENCE Olaf Lorenz introduces the first digital label printing press system of Konica Minolta and outlines performance figures of bizhub PRESS C71cf.
MIGUEL ABRANCHES PINTO POSITION Managing Director Litho Formas, S.A. RECENT FUNCTIONS As Managing Director, Miguel Abranches Pinto is responsible for implementing highly efficient and future-oriented print processes at Litho Formas. After six years working at the company in the digital fulfillment department, he took over his current role as Managing Director. The Portuguese company is the world’s first beta tester of bizhub PRESS C71cf. 1989 1993 1999
Founder & Technical Manager of Escola Profissional Val do Rio Founder & Production Manager of Páginas Eléctricas Lda Independent Consultant for the Graphic Arts Industry
TOPIC @LABELEXPO 2015 – PRESS CONFERENCE Miguel Abranches Pinto from Litho Formas, S.A. in Portugal speaks about the performance of bizhub PRESS C71cf during the beta test.
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KONICA MINOLTA LABELEXPO 2015
PRESS RELEASES
CELEBRATE A PREMIERE: KONICA MINOLTA ENTERS THE INDUSTRIAL PRINTING MARKET Langenhagen, Germany, 29 September 2015 Konica Minolta presents at Labelexpo 2015 its first full-digital label press system, which will fill the gap between entry-level and high-end digital label printing presses. The bizhub PRESS C71cf is ideal for profitable short to mid runs for an affordable investment. Converters approaching digital engines benefit from its ease of operation, production flexibility, quicker turnaround and variable data printing functions. This is the first step of Konica Minolta in offering an innovative industrial printing portfolio. In spring of 2016, Konica Minolta will present KM-1, a revolutionary four colour digital printing machine. Premiere at Labelexpo 2015: With the introduction of its first digital label printing press system bizhub PRESS C71cf, Konica Minolta provides label converters with an efficient answer to the rapidly changing nature of print requests. In the past few years, producers of consumer and industrial goods have modified their approach towards labelling, avoiding the stocking of labels. Today, about 60 percent of converters’ print jobs are less than a run length of 10,000.1 The bizhub PRESS C71cf is a smart answer to this transformation process, as it produces short to mid runs on-demand at a competitive price, provides a quick turnaround time and is easy to use. “During the development of this press, we talked to potential customers and listened closely to their needs”, says Toshitaka Uemura, General Manager, CP Business Division/Sales Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc. “We are really proud of the outcomes of the extensive development phase and are positive that our new label press serves requirements that are yet unmet within the converter market by filling the gap between entry-level and high-end digital label printing presses currently available.”
GROWTH MARKET: DIGITAL CONTINUES TO CONQUER THE LABEL PRINTING MARKET According to recent surveys, more than 25 per cent of new narrow web label presses installed worldwide are digital.2 At the same time, growth in all digital packaging and label markets is booming. The latest figures of the marketing research institute Smithers Pira show that the volume of printed square metres in this sector will go up from 4 billion (2014) to 7 billion (2017). “The label industry is shifting towards digital printing. Individualised labelling is also gaining in relevance, and digital printing is the only opportunity for label printers to offer variable data printing”, emphasises Uemura.
SUCCESSFUL BETA TEST: OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AT PRINTING HOUSE LITHO FORMAS Before presenting its new roll-to-roll digital press at Labelexpo, Konica Minolta tested a prototype machine at the leading Portuguese printing house Litho Formas, S.A. Miguel Pinto, Managing Director at Litho Formas, summarises the testing phase: “The Konica Minolta digital press fits in with our other presses perfectly. It is ideal for small to medium-sized label companies – although I could also see some bigger label converters being interested in it as a complement to their bigger digital presses.” Litho Formas also confirmed the high quality output of the C71cf press: “The solids are better than we can achieve with flexo, particularly on difficult colours like blue. The text is very sharp, and the vignettes fade well to zero. The halftones are offset, not flexo quality.”
¹ Source: What do converters want?, InfoTrends, 2012
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KONICA MINOLTA LABELEXPO 2015
PRESS RELEASES
To achieve its highest performance, the device uses a dry toner electro-photographic imaging engine and will print roll-to-roll CMYK at 13.5m/min at a native solution of 1200 x 1200 DPI / 8 bit. Maximum unwind/rewind diameter is 500 mm (20in). The continuous feed printing system is capable of printing a wide range of selfadhesive and non-adhesive material, including coated and uncoated paper, polypropylene and synthetic paper. The main application areas are labels for beverages, liquors, industrial goods, household products and food.
OUTLOOK: MORE PRINT INNOVATION FROM KONICA MINOLTA Konica Minolta is No. 1 in terms of market share for Production Printing in Europe.3 With its innovative label printing press design, it now opens the doors to the industrial printing market to create new value and innovations for its customers’ future business success. The next innovation coming soon: At drupa 2016, Konica Minolta will present its KM-1, a four colour printing machine with UV inkjet sheet system, capable of printing onto larger format B2+ sheets, which carries forward the company’s growth in the industrial printing market. The digital label press system bizhub PRESS C71cf will be available in Europe from February 2016. For more information about bizhub PRESS C71cf, please visit: http://www.konicaminolta.eu/bizhub-press-c71cf
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Labels and Labeling, James Quirk, 2013 Infosource (2014), http://www.konicaminolta.eu/en/business-solutions/company/newsroom/press-releases/press-single/article/konica-minolta-defends-itsmarket-leadership-position-in-europe.html
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KONICA MINOLTA LABELEXPO 2015
PRINT SAMPLES bizhub PRESS C71cf
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0.75 0.78
0.88
0.92
0.98
1.02
1.15
1.21
LESS 1,000
19,4 %
1,000 TO 4,999
18,6 %
5,000 TO 9,999
21,2 %
0%
IMPROVE CASH FLOW FOR WIP INVENTORY INCREASED SPEED TO MARKET NEW VALUE-ADDED OFFERS ON PACKAGING CUSTOMISED PRODUCTS TO CUSTOMERS ON DEMAND
10 %
20 %
30 %
40 %
50 %
60 %
70 %
80 %
TOTAL LABEL PRINTED VOLUME (TRILLION A4 PRINTS)
Brand owners Retailers
BRAND OWNERS AND RETAILERS VIEW OF THE DIGITAL VALUE PROPOSITION
ABOUT 60 % OF PRINTING JOBS ARE LESS THAN 10,000 LABELS
10 %
20 %
AVERAGE RUN LENGTH ON CONVENTIONAL LABEL PRESSES
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
0.7
0.82
1.09
GLOBAL PRINTED LABEL MARKET 2009-2019
SOURCE: THE FUTURE OF LABEL PRINTING MARKETS TO 2019, SMITHERS PIRA
SOURCE: WHAT DO CONVERTERS WANT? INFOTRENDS, 2012
SOURCE: KARSTEDT PARTNERS
} 11,150 WW* (13,000 locations)
8,300 WW*
2,700 WW* (3,700 locations)
WW* = worldwide
MIGUEL ABRANCHES PINTO, MANAGING DIRECTOR, LITHO FORMAS (WORLD’S FIRST BETA CUSTOMER FOR BIZHUB PRESS C71CF)
€2.6 BILLION
DIGITAL LABEL MARKET AT OVER
PLAYERS
On the bizhub PRESS C71cf the solids are better than we can achieve with flexo, particularly on difficult colours like light blue. The text is very sharp and the vignettes fade well to zero when the artwork file is correctly designed. The halftones are offset, not flexo quality.“
TOTAL MARKET:
€0–2M (tiny)
€2–5M (small)
€ 5 – 15 M (mid)
REV. SCALE # OF ENTERPRISES € 15 M & over 50 WW* (large) (1,000 locations)
CUSTOMER
LABEL PRINTING MARKET CUSTOMERS & PLAYERS
web label presses installed worldwide in 2013 were digital
25 % of the narrow
grows at more than 15 % a year
The global market for digitally printed labels
JAPAN
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA
SALES BREAKDOWN BY REGION (FY 2014)
23% 33% 19% 25%
Active in
8,800 50 172 Approx.
countries throughout the world
countries throughout Europe and
employees throughout Europe contribute to help our clients concentrate on what they do best: their business
worldwide
Employees
41,600
Konica Minolta is ranked NUMBER 1 in terms of market share for Production Printing (33,8%) in FY 2014 (infoSource). The company enters the industrial printing market with the digital label press bizhub PRESS C71cf in spring 2016.
ASIA & OTHER
COMPETITORS: PRICE, PRODUCTIVITY, SPEED
FACTS & FIGURES KONICA MINOLTA LABEL PRINTING
KONICA MINOLTA LABELEXPO 2015
FACTS & FIGURES LABEL PRINTING
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COMPANY CONTACT Silke Zuehlke Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Phone +49 (0) 511 74 04-56 04 silke.zuehlke@konicaminolta.eu
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Europaallee 17 30855 Langenhagen Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 511 74 04-0 Fax: +49 (0) 511 74 10 50 www.konicaminolta.eu