加利福尼亚州弗里蒙特市 - 2022年1月5日 - Imaging，Inc。的电子产品宣布，它将优先考虑技术投资，以加速其快速增长的工业EFI™喷墨业务的增长数字过渡以及其市场领先的Fiery®业务。作为这一重点策略的一部分，EFI已完成其Eprapoductivity Software（“ EPS”）包装和印刷生产力软件业务的销售给Symphony Technology Group（“ STG”）的分支机构。EFI和EPS将继续与他们的共同客户和合作伙伴合作，以确保相互成功。
这种重组使EFI能够加速投资对其喷墨和火热的业务部门，以利用公司提供的现有细分市场可用的增长机会，并将扩展到开始转换为数字化的市场。
“We have never been more excited about the opportunity in the industrial inkjet markets and our ability to leverage Fiery, the leading Digital Front End (DFE) technology for digital color printing, to continue to drive the analog-to-digital transformation in all high-value segments of imaging – while increasingly serving new adjacencies including e-commerce, direct-to-garment, and other rapidly growing segments,” said Jeff Jacobson, EFI’s CEO and Executive Chairman. “We are making significant investments to continue to be the clear leader in the Packaging & Corrugated, Display Graphics, Textile, and Building Materials/Decor markets.”
“高增长工业喷墨市场的潜力是我们加快在市场领先产品和服务上的投资，以推动模拟对数字转换的投资。工业喷墨成像是我在这个行业35年中看到的最大机会之一，”雅各布森补充说。“软件业务的销售为我们的工业喷墨和火热的团队提供了最佳将他们取得成功的重点。”
Industrial Inkjet: Capturing Unprecedented Opportunity
The industrial inkjet space is ripe with opportunity in existing and adjacent vertical markets. EFI Inkjet will continue to drive its leadership in high-volume, shuttle and single-pass inkjet technology, which the company has currently implemented in award-winning, high-performance products for the Packaging & Corrugated, Display Graphics, Textile, and Building Materials/Decor verticals. EFI will also leverage its industry-leading expertise in hardware, mechanical control software, high-speed electronics, services, cloud-connected devices, and ink innovations to deliver the next generation of versatile, high-volume, superior-quality printers and presses.
Following the realignment, EFI is making investments in R&D to strengthen its position in core markets while entering new categories – including the development of technologies to address new applications for the textile space and for packaging.
“The future of print is digital, and this realignment further solidifies EFI’s technology leadership position and accelerates growing our innovation edge as a provider of the world’s leading digital printers for the Packaging & Corrugated, Display Graphics, Textile, and Building Materials/Decor markets,” said Scott Schinlever, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, EFI Inkjet. “This sets the stage for our customers to continue to produce more in less time, with less labor, at higher quality, with a reduced environmental impact, and will allow us to drive our level of inkjet knowledge and expertise into promising new market applications.”
火热：驱动数字印刷创新和增长
The Fiery business unit, under the continued leadership of Fiery Chief Operating Officer and General Manager Toby Weiss, remains as the world’s premier DFE provider, enabling the high performance required across many vertical markets including packaging, signage and commercial print with advanced Fiery solutions driving high-end printers and presses from many major equipment manufacturers.
“The Fiery portfolio of products incorporates world-class color algorithms, advanced cloud technology, and many other best-in-class proprietary solutions that reduce production time and increase print quality,” said Weiss. “Working in close consultation with our partners, the investments we are making in the future of Fiery technology will foster even stronger solutions – including leading-edge cloud offerings through an EFI IQ™ suite of products that continues to help customers achieve new levels of automation, accuracy and profit potential in digital printing.”
Productivity Software: Investing for Growth under New Ownership
EPS’ new owner, STG, is a leading private equity firm that focuses on investing in software, data analytics, and software-enabled technology services companies, and will support EPS to deliver enhanced value to its packaging and print customers and accelerate global growth. STG completed this acquisition on December 30, 2021. The price and terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Moelis & Company LLC served as exclusive financial advisor, and Sidley Austin LLP acted as legal counsel, to EFI in the sale of EPS. Paul Hastings LLP acted as legal advisor to STG.
EFI即将举行的连接用户会议将是EFI和EPS客户的联合活动。两家公司的领导人将在1月17日至21日的拉斯维加斯聚会上强调他们的技术增强功能和产品路线图策略。
Posted: January 5, 2022
Source: Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI™)
