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Sheetfed press supplier consolidation in Japan

7/24/2013

 
Tracking market shares for printing equipment has always been a bit of a guessing game as any of the industry's marketing experts can attest to.  Only the listed companies (and their number is shrinking...) provide some level of visibility and it still requires some understanding of the industry to make sense out of the provided information.

Now Ryobi and Mitsubishi announced the combination of their respective sheetfed businesses into a 60/40 JV with Ryobi controlling the 60%.  Interesting...

The new company with 450 employees has a sales target of 30 billion Yen (about $300 million) and a 2% profit target.  That revenue would be less than double Ryobi's recent stand alone number, perhaps an explanation of the 60/40 split. 

While the new company would become #4 with a market share of about 8%, I am afraid it will become another member of the "our numbers are private" club.

At least for now we still have some visibility for Ryobi and here is the latest tally, with the usual adjustments by yours truly.  With the objective being a reasonable estimate for sheetfed equipment, the latest HD quarter has additionally been adjusted to reflect the latest reporting change that includes some Gallus and Prinect business in the Equipment segment.
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As noted in a previous post, Komori has seen strong orders in the most recent quarter and - at least for now - is catching up with KBA.

Getting back to the recent Ryobi/Mitsubishi news, the next obvious question is what Mitsubishi will do with its web press business. 
Pascal Orliac
7/24/2013 06:40:27 am

What happened to manroland sheetfed which does not even show on your radar screen?

Jochen Meissner
7/25/2013 02:13:59 am

Currently I only include companies with public reporting to which I make some adjustments to get closer to an apples-to-apples comparison. My estimate based on known orders would be that there is another relatively small additional market (maybe 15%) and manroland SF, Mitsubishi and others would be part of that.

CC
7/24/2013 12:38:35 pm

Komori is doing quite well lately in US market. Many are existing customers with trade-ins. Their pricing has been very aggressive.

Jochen Meissner
7/25/2013 02:21:49 am

Well, pricing is obviously a key factor in a mature market with limited remaining technology differentiation. (Customer support is a different matter.) And yes, FX rate swings change pricing and affect market share.

RJSutis link
7/25/2013 07:24:27 am

Komori has been a technology leader since Drupa 1990 and markets well worldwide. MHI is more locked into Japan only,and Ryobi's small press is challenged by digital printing.
So I wonder what technology they plan to introduce along with providing world class support outside Japan.Otherwise it seems a Japan only relevance

James
7/28/2013 01:57:36 pm

MHI commercial web is not very active in the market recent years. They may stop the web press manufacturing.


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