With immediate effect, manroland markets and distributes products of Tensor Group through its own sales and service network. Tensor Group is a premier U.S. manufacturer of single-width newspaper presses.

The markets targeted by manroland are in Central and South America, the NAFTA countries Canada and Mexico, as well as Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa. Thus manroland is initially strengthening its portfolio in high-growth emerging countries.

As Gerd Finkbeiner, CEO of manroland, explains: "By supplementing our sales portfolio with Tensor products, we are now able to offer our customers competitively priced single-width newspaper presses. On the one hand we can now meet a wish frequently expressed by customers, and on the other hand we can serve new market segments in certain regions. The agreement with Tensor enables us to quickly and flexibly strengthen our regional presence in attractive markets."

"With manroland we have gained a reliable, high-performance partner. We expect the close cooperation to result in optimal coverage of the global market and provide our customers with an excellent service network," says Martin Hozjan, owner and CEO of the Tensor Group.

manroland will distribute the Tensor equipment under the existing names T-400BE, T-460, T-500 and T-1400 in selected markets. The company has been manufacturing single-width newspaper presses in Woodridge, Illinois, close to Chicago, since 1993.