EFI Expands Its State-Of-The-Art R&D Centre in India
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 01:55 IST
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Bangalore: EFI, a customer-focused digital printing innovation, announced its significant expansion plans in the India region. The company recently expanded its research and development operations by moving into a 90,000 sq.ft. Centre EFI has been a pure technology player in printing since 1989, partnering with customers like Canon, Konica Minolta, Ricoh and Xerox. For expansion, EFI expects to hire additional research and development engineers in the near future. EFI’s India team is diversified across all the technologies and verticals of the company and is directly aligned to EFI’s operations in the U.S. Guy Gecht, chief executive officer of EFI said, “This expansion will provide us with a greater base of professional talent to ensure that we not only meet, but exceed the diverse needs of the global markets. All our products and functional areas are represented under one roof in the new Bangalore site, giving us a unique opportunity to build the best industry integration into our product portfolio.” Commenting on the rapid growth rate of EFI’s award-winning products in India, Ramin Kazemi, EFI’s vice president of sales for Asia/Pacific, said, “EFI is witnessing significant growth in the India market. EFI Fiery, our flagship product, alone has a commanding market share with over 1.7 million installations globally, we have over 100 VUTEk superwide printers installed in the region, a number of MIS and web2print software installations, and we are proud to have our EFI Monarch MIS software system currently installed at Repro India, one of India’s largest printers.” EFI has also announced the company’s commitment to increase the global market penetration of its comprehensive portfolio. The company will continue to introduce new products and services that will drive demand in the rapidly growing digital printing market worldwide.

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