Landa Corp.

Landa Digital Printing, Benny Landa's nano-printing venture, plans to recruit dozens of employees in Israel, and to supply its first printers to its customers in 2015, sources inform Globes.

The next stage is setting up a global marketing and sales network, and Landa Digital Printing recently recruited Marc Schillemans, who has served in senior executive positions in printing industry, as VP sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

"In the next year, we'll hire sales and marketing personnel, and we're already hiring more engineering and production employees," Landa says. "Today, we have over 200 employees, and we'll hire dozens more."

In the following blog, Benny Landa provides an update on the production status of Nanographic Printing presses:

So, here we are, 30 months after we promised that our Nanographic Printing presses would perform to perfection, but the first one has yet to be delivered to a customer. Yes, we did warn that "perfection takes time," but it is taking more time than we had predicted. The reasons? Well, there are two.

The first is that as exciting as the drupa 2012 models were, they were not exactly what the customers wanted. The second reason is that we had to improve print quality.

Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions' December 2014 edition, including Walsworth, Boyd Brothers Printing, Arandell Corp., Cenveo Corp., Becker, Burton & Mayer, World Marketing, Benny Landa and Graphic Arts Studio.

Two new appointments have been made at Landa Digital Printing. Marc Schillemans has been tapped as European (EMEA) vice president of sales; and Kobi Ulmer has been promoted to vice president of field operations.

REHOVOT, ISRAEL—Benny Landa, the founder of the Indigo press and the acknowledged father of digital printing, has been named Israeli entrepreneur of the year during the Journey conference, sponsored by Israeli business newspaper Globes and Ernst & Young.

Benny Landa, the founder of the Indigo press and the acknowledged father of digital printing, has been named Israeli entrepreneur of the year during the Journey conference, sponsored by Israeli business newspaper Globes and Ernst & Young.

WESEL, GERMANY and REHOVOT, ISRAEL—The specialty chemicals Group ALTANA and Landa Corp. have concluded an equity financing agreement under which ALTANA will invest €100 million (US$135 million) for a minority stake in Landa Digital Printing. Both companies see the agreement not only as a financial investment, but also as a starting point for a long-term strategic partnership to bring digital printing solutions to the commercial, packaging and publishing markets. Other units of the Landa Group, including Landa Labs and Landa Ventures, are not included in the transaction.

ALTANA and Landa Corp. have concluded an equity financing agreement under which ALTANA will invest ~US$135 million for a minority stake in Landa Digital Printing. Both companies see the agreement not only as a financial investment, but also as a starting point for a long-term strategic partnership to bring digital printing solutions to the commercial, packaging and publishing markets.

At an Ipex World Print Summit session this week, industry leaders told Frank Romano, professor emeritus at RIT, that they see evidence already of print’s expansion into new and innovative directions such as variable data or high-margin industrial applications.

The record 1,000 customers at the EFI Connect 2014 users conference in Las Vegas last month went home to their plants ready to incorporate knowledge gleaned from 180 educational sessions, keynote and panel discussions, partner exhibits and peer-to-peer networking opportunities.