Gallus to Handle Sales for Heidelberg's CSAT Products

PHILADELPHIA—August 21, 2013—In a new agreement with Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), Gallus has been appointed to handle sales and customer support of Heidelberg's CSAT digital printing line in North America. Purchased by Heidelberg in 2011, CSAT products include digital equipment for printing on pharmaceutical blister packages and other materials, and more recently, the Heidelberg Linoprint L, a full color DoD inkjet printer for labels and flexible packaging materials. The agreement extends throughout Gallus' entire North American territory. CSAT America's inventory and administration have been completely transferred to Gallus' offices in Philadelphia, which is now fully operational and seamlessly providing support to its existing customer base.

"The agreement is a win-win-win for Heidelberg/CSAT, Gallus, and especially our customers," said Natalie Gilbert, managing director of CSAT America. "Our pharmaceutical customers rely on us for superior support and fast inventory shipment, and with more staff and space at Gallus, we are set to improve on an already great service record."

"Plus," added Brian Bishop, president of Gallus, "adding the Linoprint L inkjet printer to our flexo product line gives our consumer label printing customers everything they need to meet short run, long run and variable imaging labeling capabilities from one reliable source."

There are two facets to the business, distinguished by the principal product types:

• Digital electrophotographic printers, models Heidelberg Linoprint iD and D, are primarily used for imprinting one or two colors on the back of blister packaging. Heidelberg CSAT's proprietary process provides many unique cost and production benefits to its customers, including fully digital variable imaging capabilities to satisfy current or pending "track and trace" requirements.
• The full color inkjet DoD printer, model Heidelberg Linoprint L, is used for high quality consumer labeling and variable imaging on flexible packaging. The Linoprint L digital printing system also provides wide substrate flexibility and excellent cost efficiencies for short and medium runs. It can be used as a high quality standalone label printing system, or as a complement to a flexographic label printing process.

To learn more about Heidelberg CSAT products, visit http://csatamerica.com.

About Gallus
The Gallus Group is one of the world's leading partners for label printers. At its headquarters in the Swiss city of St. Gallen, the company develops machine systems which are manufactured there and at a further production facility in Germany. These systems are used with great success the world over. Thanks to its focus on the needs of an international customer base, Gallus has become a leading global specialist in label printing and process technology.

About Heidelberger Druckmaschinen
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft (Heidelberg) is a major provider and partner for the global printing industry. The company develops, produces and distributes technology for commercial and packaging printing. With its own sales and service branches and via partners, Heidelberg reaches its customers in around 170 countries worldwide, generating Group sales of around € 2.7 billion in the 2012/2013 financial year.

The product portfolio comprises printing presses for sheetfed offset, digital and flexo printing, prepress and finishing machinery as well as the Prinect software for integrating all of the processes within a print shop. Contract manufacturing is also becoming increasingly important. Service, consumables and service parts contribute largely to the sales volume. Additionally, the company supports its customers by offering financing concepts for their investment projects.

Heidelberg mainly produces in Germany. Standardized presses for all common format classes and folding machines – primarily for the Chinese market – are also manufactured in Qingpu near Shanghai, China. All in all, around 14,000 people are currently working for Heidelberg worldwide.

Source: Gallus.