HEIDELBERG , GERMANY—  Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer has described the group as “developing from a printing press supplier into a technology company”. Speaking at Heidelberg’s AGM meeting at the end of July, Hundsdörfer said that Heidelberg’s turnaround was almost complete, with the transformation programme instigated prior to the Covid-19 crisis, and accelerated because of it, bearing fruit. Regarding the firm’s ambitions, he said Heidelberg planned to grow packaging printing sales (including Gallus and some new products specially developed for the Asian market) from around €860m (£736m) to more than €1bn by the 2026 financial year. In digital business models, including Heidelberg Plus, Prinect in the cloud, and the Zaikio open platform, the group aims to dramatically expand sales from €200m to €450m in the next five years. Heidelberg’s E-mobility operation has been spun-off into a separate limited company, offering “further options for expansion” including strategic partnerships, with more details to come this year.