In Brief

Roy Yokouchi, who served as president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ U.S. press operations, retired, the company said.

PPI Media US Inc. named Gary Schwartzkopf its senior sales consultant. Prior to joining ppi, Schwartzkopf was strategic account manager for Southern Lithoplate and also spent more than eight years at Agfa where he was district sales manager.

Pitman Co. named Anthony P. Crupi Sr. chief executive officer.

Canto released Cumulus 8, the latest upgrade of its digital asset management app.
www.canto.com

Taiwanese e-paper display module manufacturer Prime View International acquired E Ink Corp. for $215 million. PVI, which in 2005 acquired the e-paper business of Philips Electronics, had previously partnered with E Ink to provide displays underpinning e-readers including the Sony Reader, the Amazon Kindle 2 and the forthcoming Kindle DX.
www.eink.com

The production facility formerly used to produce The Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, Mass., is being torn down to make way for a big-box retail store, the paper reported. The Patriot-Ledger closed the plant in 2007 and transferred production to The Boston Globe.

Three Finnish regional daily newspapers, Karjalainen, Keskisuomalainen and Savon Sanomat, completed redesigns and newsroom workflow reorganizations, tapping Anygraaf’s All Media Publishing apps to aid in the processes, the vendor said.
www.anygraaf.com

Swedish newspaper printer Mittmedia AB expects an ROI of fewer than three years on the LithoSpray 88 spray dampening and filtration equipment it installed from Baldwin Technology Co., according to the vendor. Baldwin installed the equipment on an 11-unit, four-high tower at the printer’s facility in Ornskoldsvik in December.
www.baldwintech.com

Amazon’s Kindle DX electronic reader will begin shipping to customers June 10, the vendor said, at a pre-order price of $489. The Kindle DX, Amazon’s net-gen reading device, has a 9.7-inch e-paper display, built-in PDF reader with auto-rotate capabilities and enough storage for up to 3,500 books.
www.amazon.com/kindle