“The
creation of the Web Tech Alliance is the next step to the collaboration engaged
with Edale, said Benoit DEMOL, CEO of Codimag. “Our discussions have been
ongoing since our first meeting at Drupa 2016 and have been collaborating for
the past 2 years on projects and geographical reach.
One
of the functions of the Alliance is to promote strong technical and market
know-how. The use of some common agents has also highlighted the synergy of our
solutions. This is the basis of the brand-new organisation, with an alliance
that some other industries, such as car manufacturers, have already
implemented.”
James
Boughton, Managing Director of Edale comments: “Our collaboration with Codimag
goes back a long way, and it is with real pleasure and pride to jointly launch
the Web Tech Alliance. Our combined range of technologies and expertise bring a
strong force to the market as both parties have trusted agents and distributors
across the world that create strong brand presence and provide a local feel and
knowledge to our global customers. We look forward to the future of our
alliance and sharing our engineering excellence and developing innovative
solutions for the packaging industry.”
A technical cooperation with wide
solution for printers
Codimag
is a French manufacturer of printing presses based on Aniflo, a unique
technology that offers the quality of offset, the productivity of flexo and the
flexibility of digital. The machines are available in width 340MM and 420mm,
with a wide range of inline finishing solutions, including hot-foil, flatbed
foil, fluted foil, embossing, flexo varnishing, lamination, screen printing and
die-cutting.
Edale
are British manufacturers and engineers of world-class tailor-made flexographic
printing and converting solution for the packaging industry. They provide a
range of flexographic single pass carton, label presses and Finishing and
Converter presses.
Their
FL range of machines are available in widths from 350mm | 13.7” to 850mm |
33.4”. For over 75 years, they have
offered a scale of customisation unmatched in the industry.
They
pride themselves in providing the customer with off-the-shelf to entirely
bespoke presses, with every detail considered, often heavily customised to meet
customers precise requirements.
The Web Tech Alliance allows printers from across the globe to get different technologies in one place. Solutions are often led by an individual companies offering. By joining different expertise’s and knowledge bases together, in one place, allows the end user the chance to find the right technology for a given application.
Worldwide footprint
Both
Codimag and Edale have a large base of machines installed all over the world.
Thanks to their agent network, they can provide to their current and future
customers local support for sales and technical support. Over the last years,
the two companies have progressively shared more agents in common in various
location around the globe, including Australia, Balkan area, Poland, Vietnam,
Indonesia.
One
of the goals of this Alliance is to expand the markets for member companies and
mutualize their international development.
Unique cooperation based on industrial
skills and common values
The
Web Tech Alliance joins companies with the same desire to create value for
their customers, by offering them a wider range of technologies and expanding
markets where each member is strong. Furthermore, members must share the same
business model, based on innovating, designing and manufacturing solutions for
the web printing and converting market. This strong technical background plays
a very important role in the formation of the Web Tech Alliance.
This
Alliance is also based on common values agreed by the members.
Loyalty:
Every member is working in good faith together.
Non-competitive:
Each member avoid competition between themselves.
Business
& Ethics: All members are collaborating among themselves, and with their
respective stakeholders (customers, partners, suppliers) with high level of
ethics.
Collaboration
– shared knowledge: Members are collaborating and sharing information to
benefit each company and their stakeholders.
An
innovative model of organization to keep the agility of each company.
The Web Tech Alliance is based on mutual trust between the members, without the complexity of any mergers, thus keeping any members family owned or existing shareholding structure. The governance of the Web Tech Alliance is based on a rolling presidency. Benoit DEMOL, CEO of Codimag, is appointed as President for the first year. The Web Tech Alliance is also open to welcome new members who would complete the range of products offered by Edale and Codimag and agree on this cooperation’s common value. Some contacts have already been engaged with other European manufacturers.
“Codimag’s
motto is “let’s print the future together!”. This is a perfect fit with the
concept of the Web Tech Alliance, especially combined with Edale “We are
innovators, We are Partners, We are Engineers.”
Both
teams are delighted to participate in this Web Tech Alliance initiative, and we
are confident that our actual and future partners will feel the same
enthusiasm. The Covid-19 Pandemic did not allow us to meet in person, but we
surely are working already together!” Benoit Demol and James Boughton
concluded.
