The Plockmatic Group Opens New US Headquarters

The Plockmatic Group, owners of Plockmatic International and Morgana Systems Limited, announced the opening of their new US headquarters based in Rochester NY. The new facility will house offices, a training center, a showroom facility and warehouse, and will become the base for all operations in the US. The office will be located at the new Lehigh Crossing Office Park and is scheduled to open on August 1st with a series of open house events for partners and dealers.

The Plockmatic group goes to market in North America through two business units – Plockmatic International focus on the inline sector, partnering with the key engine manufacturers to offer unique cost effective inline booklet making solutions. They also cover the mailing sector, selling inserting systems directly and through OEM partnerships.

Morgana Systems look after all the offline products, including folders, creasers, offline booklet makers and PUR perfect binders, through a Key Dealer network across the US and Canada.

Announcing the opening of the new office Jan Marstorp, CEO of the Plockmatic Group said, “The new Rochester facility gives us a base for all our North American operations. We have big plans for growth in this market and need to increase our infrastructure and systems to provide even better support to our partners, our dealers and the customers they serve.”

In addition to long standing collaboration with Xerox and Ricoh, Plockmatic have recently announced new partnerships with Canon and Konica Minolta at Drupa. Commenting on the new facility in Rochester, Scott Russell, VP of Inline Sales said “the new facility in Rochester is key to our growth in the USA. We currently train over of 100 manufacturer’s technicians every year on this site, and that’s set to increase. We also offer second level technical support to our OEM partners from this base and have simply outgrown our current premises. This new office gives us a larger base to work from as we bring new partners on board, and also gives us direct control over our logistics for the region.”

The offline part of the Plockmatic business is handled by Morgana Systems, who have a huge base of machines in the US supported by a key dealer group. VP of Sales for the offline business Ray Hillhouse said. “We needed this US facility to offer the better support to our dealer base. Previously our machine logistics were based in Canada and our parts distribution was from the UK. Having our own warehouse and staff in the US will give a much more efficient service to our dealers, and in turn to our base of end users. Previously training was conducted either in the UK or at one of our dealers sites – just having the technical center alone will give us a much better opportunity to run in depth courses on all our products”.

The Plockmatic Group recently announced its purchase of KGS srl who manufacture the PUR perfect binders for Morgana. Hillhouse continued, “Having recently acquired KGS, we need to really increase the volume of PUR binders we are placing in North America. Having the new showroom in Rochester will allow us to show the full line of binders – and give us a place to do specific customer testing on their applications.”