Profile: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HDDG.DE)

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is a German producer of solutions for the print media industry. The Company offers products for various stages of the print process. It has three core product areas: prepress; press and postpress. The prepress area includes two main product families in the sheetfed offset sector with integrated die-cutting systems, Prosetter and Suprasetter. The press range is comprised of Printmaster and Speedmaster product families, which are used for classical offset printing, as well as for special applications, such as ultraviolet (UV) printing. The postpress area includes cutters, folders, saddlestitchers, adhesive binders, die-cutting products, folding carton gluing machines and label systems. It also offers a range of spare parts and used equipment, as well as training programs and its own printing process automation software, Prinect. As of March 30, 2009, it had 27 wholly owned subsidiaries throughout the world and was active in 170 countries.