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...came as no surprise, but the announcement was a shock anyway. AM International, the 58-year-old maker of office machinery, last week filed for bankruptcy. The company, once known as Addressograph-Multigraph Corp., borrowed heavily over the past several years in a hasty attempt to modernize and expand its line of office equipment. The project proved too costly, and AM International ran up debt that last week...
Better known by its old name of Addressograph Multigraph, AM International has been on the edge of bankruptcy. Even though it canceled ambitious expansion plans and sold off six divisions last year, the company still lost $245 million on sales of only $857 million. In January workers were forced to take a temporary 8% pay cut. AM owes $141 million to a consortium of 21 banks, and has twice violated loan agreements...
...making copiers. Though it has only one model and has marketed that for only about two years, IBM is believed already to be No. 3 in the field, behind Xerox and 3M. (Its gains, however, seem to have come at the expense of such concerns as 3M, Addressograph Multigraph, SCM, Sperry Rand and Dennison, rather than Xerox, which retains three-fourths of the global copier market...
...Angeles, Addressograph-Multigraph's Bruning Division showed off two electrostatic models that it claims can produce copies at half the cost and twice the speed of Xerox machines but that require special paper. American Photocopy demonstrated its new "Dial-A-Copy," which has a telephone-like dial on which the user can order from one to ten copies, and SCM (Smith Corona-Marchant) showed its similar, dial-operated Model 44. 3M displayed six specialized machines that produce by means of heat and light sensitivity; one turns out single copies on heat-sensitive paper for about 310, and another produces...
...reason that Xerox Corp. has a quarter of the $500 million office copying field to itself is the more than 300 U.S. patents it holds covering its unique method of duplicating documents. None of them had ever been challenged in court until last week, when SCM Corp. and Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. took on Xerox in what could become one of the biggest patent fights in modern business history...