Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOMK20230601009
- Term of Validity
- 1 June 2023 - 31 May 2025
- Company's Country
- North Macedonia
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Outsourcing agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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Macedonian printing company with over 25 years of experience in printing, pre-press, die-cutting,
foil stamping, faux letterpress, embossing, debossing, design and production of mail and packaging
materials, as well as customized promotion materials is looking for international partners in order to
cooperate under outsourcing or subcontracting agreement, offering its wide range of product outputs
such as books, posters, flyers, brochures, monographs, magazines, notebooks, folders, bags, etc. - Full Description
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Macedonian printing company was founded in 1993 with a primary goal to meet the increasingly complex requirements of the customers from the Macedonian market and the region as well, for books with high quality of workmanship and different types of binding. Over time, it has grown into a leading printing company symbolizing quality in not only book production, but in the production of posters, flyers, leaflets, brochures, catalogues, magazines, notes, business cards, folders, bags, and other types of promotional materials in different customized specifications.
The company’s product/service portfolio consists of the following categories:
- Offset printing – high-capacity pressroom operated by well-trained pressmen with a proficient command of Image Control, densitometry, spectrophotometry, and an in-house ink room.
- Digital printing - ideal for small volume printing jobs, delivers accurate and fast results at the same time being cost effective for short runs as there are no complicated set-up procedures and start-up costs as there are with more traditional printing methods.
- Bookbinding - a full range of binding options for trade, consumer, and industry publications.
- Die-cutting - finished articles could also take the form of keys, paper products or flat plastic pieces which can be snapped together.
- Foil stamping - the fine art of applying a film of metallic, gloss, matte, or tint foil to paper.
- Custom embossing - raising the surface of the paper to a desired height (blind and register embossing is available).
- Custom debossing - depressing the surface of the paper to a desired depth (blind and register debossing is available).
- Faux letterpress – a cost-effective and high-quality look and feel of traditional letterpress by using metal plates in order to achieve sharper detail.
- Packaging – custom design, manufacture and print of package solutions for products that are aesthetically pleasing, functional, and budget - friendly.
- Direct mail - creative and unique designs with the option to be labelled, metered and delivered on time.
- Pre-press – the full preparation cycle for production: receiving digital data; checking printing colors in high resolution; CTP – transfer from computer to plate and traditional printing plate; scanning in high resolution; main view design.
The company has put great efforts and investments both in modern graphic technology and in educating professional working staff adequate to operate the modern machine park. The Macedonian book and printing markets hold high quality standards, which makes the company competent to participate in the foreign trade as well.
Therefore, it looks for pathways to expand its international presence to more than several countries and is open to the following cooperation types:
• Subcontracting – with companies that are willing to appoint a certain part of their production process that has previously been established in a contract with a third party, so that the Macedonian company can secure regular orders for a specific period of time determined by the contract, at the same time providing its internationally-approved facilities to the partners abroad.
• Outsourcing – with companies involved in the printing and publishing industry that would like to assign particular parts of their business process that have to do with pre-press process, printing, bookbinding, die-cutting, paper processing, design and production of mail and packaging, as well as different custom promotional materials. - Advantages and Innovations
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With over 25 years of experience, the company holds the reputation of one of the pioneers in its field on the Balkan Peninsula. Apart from serving its local market, it also exports to France, England, Netherlands, Germany and Greece.
• The client base consists of over 200 both domestic and foreign, public and private companies, including Diners Card, Red Cross, The Coca-Cola Company, Renault, OSCE, etc.
• The company has by far printed over 3.700 titles of books, with print of the inside block in one, two or four colors, with stitched or glued inside block, in soft or hard binding.
• In addition, it has published over 120 monographs in luxurious edition, a range of notebooks in different editions, and prints 6 different magazines on a regular basis.
• It performs work in accordance with all existing regulations for environmental protection and with active concern for the natural environment, and through various activities it demonstrates its social responsibility towards the community. For instance, it has obtained the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) standard which ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits, as well as the BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) – an international initiative for companies committed to improving working conditions in accordance with human rights, International Labor Organization conventions and national labor law.
• The pre-press department is of the latest generation of CTP (computer to plate) technology, with a constant quality control of the plates, with a platometers, and a certified proof printer for comparing the printed material.
• In the offset department the quality control is conducted through a Densitronic S Professional control system for spectral quality control over the production of the KBA (The Koenig & Bauer AG) printing machine.
• The department of finishing consists of two lines of Kolbus’s paper binding. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR status
- No IPR applied
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The company is in search of international partners that would like to outsource or subcontract
parts of their business process such as:
- publishing houses
- bookstore distributors
- companies that distribute promotional materials for instance posters, flyers, brochures,
business cards, bags, calendars, etc.
- companies that distribute standardized and/or custom made stationery and office supplies for
instance letterhead paper, envelopes, notebooks, notepads, folders, invitations, book markers,
file separators, etc.
- companies that distribute standardized and/or custom made packaging
- other companies in the publishing and printing industry that act as a connection with the final
consumers - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Outsourcing agreement
Dissemination
- Market keywords
- 009 - Other
- Targeted countries
- All countries
