Title: KVOS Ltd'
1KVOS Ltd.
2KVOS Ltd.
- Introduction for IPN
- Spring meeting 2008
- Dubai
3Who am I ?
- Gudmundur Rúnar Benediktsson
- Gummi_at_kvos.is
- Mechanical Engineer 1993, University of Iceland
- I am Technical Director of Kvos, running
department that does service, for the
subsidiaries. - Technical department
- IT Department
- Maintenance department,
- With Ink in my vessels, father and grandfather
- Been a member of Xplor for years
- Vice president of Xplor Iceland
4What am I doing here, why IPN ?
- Was I just bored and needed excuse to party and
get away from work? - Is it to listen to Sveinbjörn and his stories and
songs? - Is it to see Torben, and have discussions and
make business plans at the bar? - Is it Tony and his strange British humor?
- Is it to join Frank on the night live?
- No it is not only this, but such a global friends
make life much more colorful and enjoyable
5Why IPN, the business side
- We think that IPN is a window of opportunities
for our companies - Open doors to help, information and know-how
- Business opportunities with mutual benefits
- Extra production sites for our customers, by
global friends. - Build a network of global friends/partners
- Learning about new ideas and product
- Sharing info and ideas.
6Oddi / Kvos, What are we ?
- The company, Oddi, was established 9. October.
1943 - A private company, owned by the families of the
founders. - Core business has always been printing
- Main objective has been to serve the Icelandic
market. - Oddi has always maintained its position as market
leader in Iceland.
7Oddi / Kvos, What are we ?...
- Kvos
- In the beginning of 2006, Oddi and its
subsidiaries where restructured and new holding
company was established, under the name of Kvos
hf - Kvos, the name
- Kvos started to invest in printing in E-Europe,
Infopress in Romania, Delta in Bulgaria, and
build plant in Hungary - The group is to day ranked amongst the top 20
printing companies in Europe (100.000 in total).
8What are we ? ...
- Kvos is a strategic investment company,
specializing in the printing and media sectors. - Kvos is international company, based on Icelandic
roots. - Kvos has now 10 subsidiary companies in 7
countries - Kvoss main function is to manage and support
its subsidiaries in order to maximize
profitability.
9Kvos in numbers
- The group 2007 revenues were about 105 Million
EUR - Number of employees, 1.300
- 60 of the 2007 revenues are outside of Iceland
10Employees
11Revenue growth
12Available service
13Kvos - companie structure
14Kvos Iceland
15Kvos Iceland
16Kvos Iceland
17OPM
- OPM structure
- Production management and inventory
- Prepress and Digital printing
- Commercial printing
- Finishing
- Packaging
- Folding cartons
- Corrugated boards
18OPM Prepress - equipment
- Prepress
- Creo Lotem 400VA CTP 2 Creo Lotem 800QII CTP
Creo Dolev 800V CTF BASF flexo platemaking3 HP
Improof - digital imposition proofIRIS 4Print -
color proofingIRIS 2Print - color proofingCreo
iQsmart III 4C Scanner
19OPM Digital printing - equipment
- Digital printing units
- HP Indigo 5500
- Xerox DocuColor 250
- Xerox DocuTech 6065 b/w
- Heidelberg Digimaster b/w
- AMS 3600 Ink Jet addressing printer
- Scanner
- Xerox FreeFlow 665E
20OPM Printing - equipment
- Heidelberg/Goss Harris M-600 heatset Web 4/4
color - Heidelberg Speemaster 102 CD - 6 color Varnish
- Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 - 8 color perfector
- Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 - 2 color perfector
- Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 - 4 color
- Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 2 color x2
- Heidelberg GTO 1 color
- Man Roland 500 6 litur waterbased varnish
UV varnish - Drent narrow web 6 color and sheeting
- Drent narrow web 4 color
- Heidelberg cylinder
- Heidelberg diagonal x2
21OPM Finishing - equipment
- Heidelberg Stahl Folders x6
- Muller Martini Stitching machines x2
- Muller Martini Monostar Perfect binder
- Muller Martini gathering and sewing machine
- Kolbus Case Bound book line
- Kolbus case makers and gold foil blockers
- Bobst die cutter
- Bobst Fuego, folding-gluing
22OPM Packaging - Equipment
- Corrugated cardboards
- Peters, corrugated cardboards production
- Martin, Printing, gluing and die cutting
- Bobst, corrugated cardboards die cutting
- Segmatic, corrugated cardboards die cutting
- Printer Flexo, printing for corrugated cardboards
- Folding carton
- Bobst, compound sheeter, printing and die cutting
- Bobst, die cutters
- Passaban, sheeter
- Bobst Fuego, folding-gluing
- Vega, folding-gluing x2
- Post, gluing
- Oakland, waxing machine
23OPM Transactional printing
- Home grown program to process data and create
pages - Data from customers in various format via FTP
- Processed and printed on OPM digital machines.
- Sealer finishing of single pages with Bowe Sealer
machine - Normal inserting done by Sveinbjörn Umslag
24Digital solutions
- Kvos is running, programming and servicing
systems for its subsidiary firms. - FTP servers
- Web2Print
- Web servers
- Workflow systems
- Custom made systems for information gathering
over the web, and semi automatic catalog creation - System for creating Web view of printed documents
25Major customers of Kvos Iceland
- Book publishers in Iceland
- Magazine publishers in Iceland
- Retail firms in Iceland
- Banks and finance companies
- Government and its companies
- Ad agencies
- Big and small firms
- Individuals
26Kvos International
- Infopress group
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Oddi Polska 49
- ODDI Printing Corp.
- Oddi-Atlantic USA
- Packaging
- Comercial printing
27IPG locations
28IPG equipment
- Pre-press
- Screen PlateRite Ultima 32000 CTP
- Screen PlateRite Ultima 24000 CTP
- Kodak Trendsetter Quantum III CTP
- Sheet-fed presses
- HEIDELBERG SPEEDMASTER CD 5 C
- HEIDELBERG GTO 4c
- SPEEDMASTER SM 74 4c
- SPEEDMASTER SM 102 8c x2
- SPEEDMASTER SM 102 4c
29IPG equipment Web Presses
- Web presses
- MAN LITHOMAN IV 32-page press
- MAN ROTOMAN-N 16-page press
- MAN ROTOMAN-D 16-page press
- MAN LITHOMAN III 32-page press
- KOMORI S38 16-page
- SOLNA D25 Cold-set
- GOSS M-600 16-page
30IPG equipment Finishing
- MULLER MARTINI PRIMA stitching machines
- MULLER MARTINI 279 stitching machine
- MULLER MARTINI gathering machine
- MULLER MARTINI CORONA COMPACTA CC12 perfect
binding machine - MULLER MARTINI INVENTA sewing machine
- MULLER MARTINI SAFIR individual wrapping and
addressing machine - MULLER MARTINI Rubin individual wrapping and
addressing - HANS-MULLER 227 inserting machine
31IPG customers
- Magazine publishers
- Burda
- National Geographic
- Playboy
- Etc.
- Retail chains
- Brochures
- Marketing material
32- Thank your for the opportunity to apply for IPN
membership - Thank you for your kindness and warm welcome
- Thank you for being our global friends
33QUESTIONS ?