By: E&P Staff MAN Roland and Manugraph said late last week they will not renew their cooperative sales and service agreement after July 26.
The move was attributed to market changes and Manugraph's November 2006 acquisition of Dauphin Graphic Machines, based in Elizabethville, Pa.
At that time, however, Mumbai-based Manugraph's managing director, Pradeep Shah told E&P the acquisition did not change the companies' relationship, and DGM's then CEO and largest shareholder, Chris Lunt, said that the business environment made "the need to form worldwide alliances is a must."
DGM makes and sells its own singlewide printing equipment, and it makes the doublewide Americolor towers sold by Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp.
Based on a 1980s agreement between Manugraph and the old East German press works in Plauen (now MAN Plamag), the arrangement allowed MAN to sell Manugraph products outside of North America and Manugraph to build MAN's Uniset press for the Indian market.
Earlier in 2006, MAN Roland had undergone ownership changes of its own, when German engineering and manufacturing parent company MAN AG sold all but a 35% stake in MAN Roland Druckmaschinen to a group controlled by Allianz Capital Partners. An anticipated public offering of stock has been delayed. In the meantime, MAN Roland is changing its name to manroland.
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