Durst details ‘targeted reinforcement’ with Triple C Labs deal

Durst Group has acquired a majority stake in Triple C Labs, the company behind industrial print-focused software offering CoCoCo Platform.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Durst did confirm that CoCoCo Platform will continue to operate as an independent entity under its existing brand, leadership and customer commitments.

CoCoCo Platform will also remain fully open to third-party OEMs, software vendors and print production customers, with Durst adding that the deal represents a “targeted reinforcement” of its Kyveris industrial software and AI stack for connected print production.

Durst says while Kyveris provides the physics, colour and orchestration intelligence that turns installed presses into “data-driven production environments”, CoCoCo Platform will contribute the “horizontal integration layer” that completes the picture.

Closing the gap

Christoph Gamper, CEO and co-owner of Durst, says that combining Kyveris and CoCoCo Platform will “close the gap” between what a machine does and what a production floor knows.

"The right answer to complex production landscapes is rarely more machines,” Gamper says, adding: “It is more clarity about the machines already running. CoCoCo built exactly that: a common data language that presses, prepress systems and shop-floor software can actually share. 

“Dashboards, automation, AI assistants are all downstream questions. Get the data model right, and the rest follows. We are joining forces to accelerate the roadmap. And we are keeping CoCoCo Platform open, because a data fabric that is not open is not a fabric. It is a fence.”

Karl Ciz, co-founder of CoCoCo Platform / Triple C Labs, adds:  “While we are excited to reinforce Durst’s Kyveris stack with our data fabric, we remain truly agnostic and vendor-neutral. 

“This investment doesn't restrict us, but rather accelerates our roadmap, allowing us to scale the CoCoCo Platform and reach many more third-party OEMs, software vendors, and PSPs worldwide.”

The deal comes just over two months ahead of co-located The Print Show and The Sign Show, where Durst will be exhibiting with a focus on software. Find out more by clicking here.