Klotz Communications buys Qphonics assets
Published: WORLD
WORLD: Klotz Communications has purchased the assets of Qphonics (formerly Klotz Digital) from the company’s insolvency lawyers. The move is designed to benefit users of the Klotz Digital Vadis platform by extending the product’s lifespan and offering an upgrade path.
Klotz Communications is now the sole owner of all intellectual property, including hardware and software, and controls all licensing, maintenance and upgrades for the Vadis platform worldwide. The purchase also gives the company access to a warehouse of spare parts, console surface modules, and elements such as PSUs and controller modules for Vadis frames of various generations.
‘Over the last 12 months we have contacted many of the long-term Vadis users and found that most systems are still in use over 14 years after they were installed, despite the corporate changes at Klotz Digital/Qphonics, and the lack of support that resulted from those changes,’ said Klotz Communications’ Thomas Klotz. ‘In conversations with end-users we learned that the hardware was rock-solid and hadn’t failed on them over all these years. What we also learned was that users were hesitant to change their system as research showed that other systems couldn’t replicate the flexibility and adaptability to a stations workflow like a Vadis system can, so there was a real pull for Klotz Communications to buy back what was lost under unfortunate circumstances five years ago.’