Klotz Communications has acquired the assets of Qphonics (formerly Klotz Digital) from the company’s insolvency lawyers. The move ‘closes the loop’ on Klotz Communications aims to extend the life of Vadis platform and validate users’ investment in Klotz Digital, as well as providing a safe upgrade path to the next generation of products and technology.
Klotz Communications is now the sole owner of all intellectual property, including hardware and software, and controls all licencing, maintenance and upgrades for the Vadis platform worldwide. The buy-back gives the company access to a warehouse of spare parts, console surface modules, and critical elements such as PSUs and controller modules for Vadis frames of various generations.
‘Over the past 12 months, we have contacted many of the long-term Vadis users and found that most systems are still in use 14-plus years after they were installed, despite the corporate changes that occurred to Klotz Digital/Qphonics, and the lack of support that resulted of those changes,’ says 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.’
Klotz Communications was founded in 2015 by Thomas Klotz and Andre Sauer to provide the broadcast market with a products and developments such as the Touchstone technology. The company has established regional support offices in China, Singapore, Germany and the US to be closer to the market and support the existing systems. Klotz Communications offers a complete suite of consoles and routers to serve the Radio industry, from small stand-alone consoles to large, complex broadcast centres.
After a successful first year, the company has outgrown its offices and is to move to a bigger facility. It is set to launch the DC3 console surface for Vadis in 2016.
