Transforming the Profit Structure through the PESP Business and Solutions

「To strengthen our domestic service structure, we will open a contact center on 1 October 2025 and aim to improve operating efficiency and further increase customer satisfaction by establishing a 24-hour reception system.」

「As a result of developing solution-based sales to address these issues, revenue increased 12.4% year on year to ¥15,469 million.」

「We are also expanding the functionality of KP-Connect, process-management software for building smart factories that are friendly to people and the environment, and are implementing broader alliances and visualization of CO2 emissions.」

「In our core offset printing and securities-printing businesses, which generate stable revenue, we will strengthen coordination between machine sales and services and expand solution sales through proposals such as maximizing productivity by building smart factories and offering maintenance contracts with printing consultants.」

「Interest in the proposed solutions was also strong, and service revenue, including maintenance and modifications, increased.」

「As a notable development during the six months ended September 30, we relocated the Global Parts Center, which supplied repair parts from Noda, Chiba, to countries worldwide as part of the PESP business, to the Tsukuba Plant in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. We completed and began operating a new logistics center. This is intended to optimize logistics and ordering operations and share resources, and is expected to improve PESP services and profitability.」

「We will expand overseas the PESP business, including the DX solutions for visualizing operating data and managing processes through KP-Connect that we have developed in Japan, and strengthen our efforts to provide PESP services focused on preventive maintenance in the securities-printing business as well.」

「d. Promotion of the PESP business and recurring income: i) Expansion of stable-income businesses, including sales of materials and equipment and DPS ink and maintenance fees.」

「By adding the MBO Group's business to our Group through the acquisition of its equity interests, we can introduce products with distinctive features into the PESP business we are promoting, particularly enabling us to enter the commercial printing post-press field, where we had not previously been active. By linking these products with the IoT cloud KP-Connect, which we are expanding globally, we will be able to provide a seamless production environment covering not only printing but also post-press processing. In addition, these products can be applied to new solutions linked to our core products, such as digital and offset printing machines.」

「By steadily expanding new businesses such as the DPS and PESP businesses and diversifying and stabilizing our revenue sources, we will reduce the impact of fluctuations in demand for offset printing machines on our operating results.」

「By adding the MBO Group's business to our Group through the acquisition of its equity interests, we can introduce products with distinctive features into the PESP business we are promoting, particularly enabling us to enter the commercial printing post-press field, where we had not previously been active. By linking these products with the IoT cloud KP-Connect, which we are expanding globally, we will be able to provide a seamless production environment covering not only printing but also post-press processing.」

「To improve productivity at printing companies in Japan in the printing workflow field, we entered into a partnership agreement in August 2019 with JSPIRITS, which owns the copyright to PrintSapiens, a management information system.」

「Expansion of KP-Connect (KOMORI Solution Cloud), which is intended to enable IoT at printing companies.」

「More than 300 machines are already connected to KP-Connect, contributing to greater efficiency at production sites.」

「i) Revenue structure transformation (sales business model transformation and expansion of the PESP [Print Engineering Service Provider] business): providing and expanding consumables such as K-Supply, peripheral equipment such as Apressia, planned installation work, and integrated solutions including KP-Connect Cloud Solution.」

「By connecting 10 printing machines and peripheral devices to KP-Connect, which provides visualization, automation and labor saving across the printing manufacturing process, we proposed a smart factory that enables the transfer of job data and centralized management of progress across all processes, and promoted order-taking activities.」

「During the first quarter, we exhibited at JP2018, the ICT and Printing Exhibition, at MyDome Osaka in April. Visitors were able to operate demonstration terminals for KP-Connect, which achieves visualization, automation and labor saving by "connecting" the printing manufacturing process. We also promoted orders by presenting installation examples for the Impremia IS29 digital printing machine, K-Supply products that contribute to stable operation and print quality, and the Apressia series, which supports post-press processing, thereby proposing a wide range of solutions.」

「We launched domestic sales of KP-Connect (KOMORI Solution Cloud), which is intended to enable IoT at future printing companies, and have established a structure for proposing comprehensive solutions that contribute to higher customer productivity and profitability.」

「In developing the Apressia MB series, KOMORI established a strategic partnership and entered into an OEM agreement with レザック in Yao, Osaka, for a blanking system. Sales of the Apressia MB110E are scheduled to begin in early 2018.」

「Providing and expanding consumables such as K-Supply, peripheral equipment such as Apressia, planned installation work, and integrated solutions including KP-Connect cloud solution.」

「Providing and expanding consumables such as K-Supply, peripheral equipment such as Apressia, planned installation work, and integrated solutions including KP-Connect cloud solution.」

「Revenue structure transformation (sales business model transformation and expansion of the PESP [Print Engineering Service Provider] business): providing and expanding consumables such as K-Supply, peripheral equipment such as Apressia, planned installation work, and integrated solutions including KP-Connect Cloud Solution.」

「Providing and expanding consumables such as K-Supply, peripheral equipment such as Apressia, planned installation work, and integrated solutions including KP-Connect Cloud Solution.」

「Revenue structure transformation (sales business model transformation and expansion of the PESP [Print Engineering Service Provider] business): providing and expanding consumables such as K-Supply, peripheral equipment such as Apressia, planned installation work, and integrated solutions including KP-Connect Cloud Solution.」