The Price Lists and Catalogs for sia Abrasives AG Have Been Successfully Produced

Background information

sia Abrasives AG is one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-quality abrasive products. With country-specific assortments and items, as well as numerous language versions, media production is highly complex. To prepare catalogs and price lists in a media-appropriate format, sia Abrasives relies on cross-media publishing support from Kittelberger.

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The catalogs and price lists for sia Abrasives in 10 country versions and 13 languages were completed in the first quarter of the year.

During the project, country-specific assortments including localized articles are delivered from various countries. These assortments are imported into the advastamedia database. A fully automated PDF preview generation allows data validation, and multiple assortment and correction rounds per country are possible. Static pages can be added if needed. The final document is exported to InDesign, where final visual adjustments are made.

Dynamic Generation of Mapping Information

By mapping abrasive series to application areas, users can see at a glance which abrasives are suitable for which materials, work steps, and other applications.

This mapping overview page is generated automatically once the mapping data has been centrally maintained.

A number of optimizations and automated processes ensure that the maintenance effort remains manageable, even with a total inventory of over 80,000 individual products.

"We’ve been working with Kittelberger for years and rely on their professional support," says Julia Olivier from sia Abrasives about the automated catalog production.

Print On Demand Shortens Production Times

Catalogs can be produced in very short timeframes using Print On Demand from Kittelberger media solutions – in this case, for example, 10 country versions in 13 languages, each with over 200 pages, within just a few days.

Throughout production, preview PDFs of the catalogs are continuously provided; all corrections are made directly in advastamedia®, ensuring that the website and other channels can immediately benefit from the improved data.

Once exported to InDesign and then as print-ready PDFs, the catalogs can be delivered directly to the print shop. The creation and validation of the print data were also handled by Kittelberger.