Local industry opens up to KAMA

Last week’s KAMA Open House at Heidelberg Print Media Academy gives local industry a demonstration of the ProCut die cutter and the ProFold folder gluer in action.

The two machines were shown and guests (pictured) could see a number of jobs and a variety of special finishes produced live, including foiling, embossing, die cutting, folding and gluing.

According to Lindsay Barnes, general manager product management for HAN, the event has already produced a number of potential leads. “Quite a few of the people who attended the open house requested a one-on-one demonstration of the equipment in the coming days and weeks, and in fact two customers came in the very next day to spend a few hours with us going through the equipment in more detail,” he said.

“To see this many people at a new product demonstration, and to know the genuine interest that is out there is really uplifting, especially considering how sluggish the market has been. I have a very optimistic outlook for KAMA products in the Australasian market.”

KAMA CEO, Marcus Tralau, also expects that the products will be well-received by the local market. “The Open House in Melbourne … provided the opportunity to demonstrate the huge capabilities of the ProCut and ProFold machines across a range of applications to a professional audience,” he said.

“I am very confident that the versatile KAMA machines will enter the Australasian market as quickly as they succeeded in the Japanese market in recent years. Here we can already state a rising demand after a short break due to global crisis and delivered a ProCut die cutter with hologram stamping system in the demanding Japanese market last month.”