Press controls and plate register and management specialists EAE and Nela have signed an agreement to market each other’s colour control systems for offset presses.

The deal will see close cooperation to market and distribute Nela’s OPRC colour register and cut-off control systems and EAE’s closed-loop colour density control system. An announcement by sales directors Guido Eckenwalder (Nela) and Oemer Senguen (EAE) says the ‘quality alliance’ will enable both parties to offer the coordinated product of the two technology leaders, “especially as customer demands for these systems goes hand in hand”.

Both believe they can achieve higher market penetration from sharing existing distribution channels.

The two plan joint marketing activities at IfraExpo next month, and say the agreement will see mutual sales support and product development, and a shared presence in advertisements and publications.

The Nela group of Brüder Neumeister, Nela USA and Nela Asia supplies automate register systems  for newspaper and commercial printing, as well as colour register and cut-off control on press. It has more than 1500 optical inline systems installed worldwide,

EAE is a leading provider of control systems, automation solutions and software for newspaper printing, used in areas from prepress to delivery.