| Main Features of the RICOH GR III Street Edition Special Limited Kit | The kit will be available in limited quantities starting in April 2022 for a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $1,099.95.Ī second special package-the RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition body only version (camera body only, without the genuine-leather hand strap and the metallic hot shoe cover)-is scheduled to be available in the summer of 2022. It also includes exclusive, specially designed accessories: a leather hand strap and a metallic hot shoe cover. This package features the RICOH GR IIIx high-end digital compact camera, with a metallic gray finish and navy-blue ring around the lens barrel. I would imagine similar thoughts might be taking place at other paper-based corporations, such as Kyocera, Konica Minolta, Canon and others.PARSIPPANY, N.J., Ma/PRNewswire/ - Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation today announced the RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit.
Those two companies perhaps see in the very long term their paper-based operations may shrink and wish to grow an alternative business in manufacturing over the course of many years to replace them. I’m wondering why this decision was made, as there are multiple other similar parties aggressively pursuing the industrial additive manufacturing market, most notably including HP, Sindoh and Xerox. Even stranger is that they have not (yet) used their fund to acquire any other parties in the space. They seem to have not only dropped the sales of the SLS machine, but also dropped development of the metal and ceramic devices as well. That’s definitely a valid additive manufacturing business model, but quite a change from their previous strategy. They have been performing this type of service internally for on-demand spare parts, and intend on doing this for other companies as a service. Instead, the company seems to be shifting to a service model, where requests for part production can receive “instant pricing”. There was no mention of new machines, but the company appears to be developing new materials for use in 3D printers. They have been supporting existing users of the device, but no new sales are being made. We are also looking more broadly than additive.” Ricoh Additive Strategy Another 3D print made by Ricoh Īll of this sounds quite ambitious, but then during a recent discussion with their representatives, I learned that they have not been selling the SLS machine since April of 2019. “We have allocated $1.8 billon for M&A and it’s not specific to additive. However, Ricoh Americas’ then-CEO, Joji Tokunaga said: Then in 2018 in an interview on ZDNET, the CEO of Ricoh suggested they were quite interested in the additive manufacturing market, even saying they had arranged for a large fund (US$1.8B) for “mergers and acquisitions”. However, no such machine emerged from the company.
We even saw print samples from these efforts. We first saw the AM 5500SP 3D printer in 2016, and it produced high quality output, typically in nylon materials.Ī subsequent meeting indicated they were in the midst of developing new machines to address the metal and ceramic markets.
The company developed an SLS-style industrial 3D printer and marketed it for several years.
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