Print technology startup CoCoCo has relocated its global headquarters to Saarbrücken, Germany, establishing its new base on the campus of Universität des Saarlandes.
The move places the company within one of Europe’s most concentrated ecosystems for artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 research. The campus is home to several major research institutions, including the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Max Planck Institutes, and Fraunhofer institutes.
CoCoCo said the decision was intended to strengthen links between academic research and industrial application, while supporting the development of new technologies for the print sector.
The relocation is supported by Triathlon, Saarland University’s entrepreneurship and technology transfer ecosystem, which works with startups and research groups to commercialise innovation. According to the university, the initiative has supported more than 550 startups over the past decades, creating over 4,000 jobs and assisting around 120 startup projects each year.
Sven Hardt from Triathlon said the organisation saw a strong fit between the startup and its innovation ecosystem.
“It was natural for us to want CoCoCo to join the ecosystem here,” he said. “Their revolutionary new approaches to delivering Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 technologies ally perfectly with our ambitions to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world solutions.”
CoCoCo specialises in industrial data connectivity for print and manufacturing environments, offering a vendor-agnostic platform designed to connect machines and software across production workflows. The company says the system allows print businesses to centralise operational data and create a “single source of truth” for their production environment.
As part of its roadmap, the company has also confirmed that it is conducting initial customer testing of a machine learning solution developed specifically for the print industry. The forthcoming technology aims to enable more data-driven decision-making and self-optimising production environments.
John Maxwell, co-founder of CoCoCo, said the location would help the company advance its development plans.
“After much research, we found a natural fit in Saarbrücken,” he said. “The location ‘in the heart of Europe,’ coupled with world-class research institutions and the incredible support from Sven Hardt and the Triathlon team, enables us to set new goals. We know we have the right team around us to help deliver them.”
CoCoCo said further details about new collaborations and the planned machine learning launch will be announced in the coming weeks.
