AVT Acquires GMI, Enters Commercial Printing and Newspaper Markets

GMI, which holds a major share of the CLC market, sells to commercial, semi-commercial, newspaper and specialty printers in the heat-set and cold-set web printing markets as well as printing press OEMs worldwide. GMI’s blue-chip customer base includes market leading companies serving the printing and press manufacturing industry, highlighted by its strong relationship with the world’s top printers such as RR Donnelly & Sons Co., Quebecor World Inc., and Transcontinental Inc. Additionally, the company has relationships with leading press manufacturers such as Goss International, MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA), Komori Corp., Nilpeter, Dauphin Graphic Machines Inc. (a subsidiary of Manugraph India Ltd.), Timsons Printing Machinery, and Muller-Martini AG.