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Henan Daily orders third Comet press [KBA]

2010-03-04T03:00:00+01:00

Henan Daily Newspaper Group in Zhengzhou, China has singed a contract for a third Comet press line. The order follows the installation in 2001 and 2005 of two Comet press lines with a total of eight towers and four folders.

New opportunities in packaging printing [KBA]

2010-02-23T17:29:00+01:00

Sheetfed offset printers have the opportunity to capture new markets in packaging through the rise in use of new materials for packaging, says KBA

New technologies, processes, and partners [KBA]

2010-01-05T10:06:00+01:00

Rolling change in the media industry has been driving a need for intelligent alliances, and at this year’s Ifra Expo in Vienna KBA was a good example

Web offset presses proving flexible and productive [KBA]

2010-01-03T09:57:00+01:00

Both commercial and newspaper web offset printers are being wowed with a series of press developments as manufacturers look to provide more to printers

Amcor installs first KBA Rapida 105 in New Zealand [KBA]

2009-11-11T13:36:00+01:00

When Amcor Cartons Auckland asked for more consistency, more reliability, and more quality from its presses, KBA replied with the first new installation of a KBA 105 in the country

First KBA Rapida 106 installed in Australia [KBA]

2009-11-07T13:16:00+01:00

The new KBA Rapida 106 high productivity sheetfed press has made an impression in Australia, with Perth based Percival Print and Packaging the first company set to install the press

Amcor installs first KBA Rapida 105 in New Zealand [KBA]

2009-11-07T12:59:00+01:00

When Amcor Cartons Auckland asked for more consistency, more reliability, and more quality from its presses, KBA replied with the first new installation of a KBA 105 in the country

Visy Glama orders Australia’s first 205 press [KBA]

2008-11-07T12:37:00+01:00

The new Visy Glama package print factory being built in Sydney will house the country’s biggest sheetfed press when a new KBA Rapida 205 arrives at the end of the year

Long live the King? [KBA]

2008-08-29T13:38:05+01:00

While the drupa headlines focused on digital inkjet print the bulk of print at the show was coming from highly specified offset presses, highlighting its continued pre-eminent role in print, reports Wayne Robinson

KBA web makes mark down under [KBA]

2008-07-01T03:42:47+01:00

Since its re-emergence into the Australian market four years ago web giant KBA has made significant inroads with Australian printers.

KBA ups Oz investment [KBA]

2008-06-29T05:52:00+01:00

KBA Australasia is continuing to invest in infrastructure and people in Australia, with the opening of new offices in both Sydney (Campbelltown) and Melbourne (Mt Waverley), and the recent appointment of David Best in to a sheetfed press sales role in Sydney from which he will service the NSW and Qld markets.

Consulting completes KBA [KBA]

2008-06-21T06:20:28+01:00

KBA Complete is a new company, created specifically to address the myriad complexities in print these days, with the aim of ensuring printers are optimising their business activities, reports Wayne Robinson.

KBA continues investment in Australia [KBA]

2008-05-26T14:00:00+01:00

Orders up, turnover down at KBA [KBA]

2008-05-15T14:00:00+01:00

Defying the financial crisis, a strong euro and a pre-Drupa lag in demand for sheetfed presses, KBA has posted a 5.5 per cent increase in new orders to €370.3m this year from €350.9m in 2007.

KBA upgrades for drupa [KBA]

2008-05-06T15:58:44+01:00

KBA gave an exclusive preview of the major innovations it will be exhibiting at this year’s drupa to the world’s leading graphic arts magazines in Radebeul, Wayne Robinson was there for AP

KBA joins forces with Adast [KBA]

2008-04-30T14:00:00+01:00

Pending official approval, KBA's Czech subsidiary KBA-Grafitec in Dobruska is entering a strategic alliance with Czech press manufacturer Adast.

The printing press remains the star [KBA]

2008-04-29T08:00:00+01:00

The presses remain the key attraction at drupa and in 2008 printers are not going to be disappointed by the range of developments on show, says Gareth Ward.

KBA at age 190 [KBA]

2008-04-02T13:00:00+01:00

Last year, the world’s oldest builder of printing presses celebrated its 190th birthday; AP’s Brian Moore revisited KBA’s facilities in Würzburg and went to Radebeul near Dresden where he caught up with president and CEO, Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann

KBA Rapida 105 universal for Thai Watana Panich Press in Bangkok [KBA]

2007-06-13T14:00:00+01:00

The success story of the KBA Rapida 105 universal in the Southeast Asian region is as lively as ever. Like many other customers in China, Singapore and Malaysia before them, Thai Watana Panich Press Co. Ltd. (TWP) in Bangkok recently took delivery of a four-colour model from this internationally successful press series. TWP was founded in 1935 under the name Siam Watana Panich Co. Ltd. and has since developed into one of the largest and strongest printing companies in Thailand.

Le Figaro orders biggest-ever KBA Cortina press line [KBA]

2007-06-10T14:00:00+01:00

Le Figaro, one of France’s leading national titles with a daily circulation of around 480,000 copies, is planning to make the technology leap to waterless with the biggest KBA Cortina installation to date – a six-wide version comprising two press lines with five towers apiece. KBA won the contract following an intensive screening of all the newspaper technology on the market.

Tiber SpA expands with KBA Compacta 618 [KBA]

2007-05-31T14:00:00+01:00

The Tiber SpA printing firm, based in the Italian city of Brescia, and Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) have agreed a contract for the delivery of new 48-page Compacta 618 commercial web press. This order will extend the partnership which both businesses have enjoyed since 2001, which began with a Compacta 318.

First KBA Cortina 6/2 earmarked for Bremerhaven [KBA]

2007-05-28T14:00:00+01:00

Following the sale of nine 4/2 versions of the Cortina to printers in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland, KBA has now booked an order from Druckzentrum Nordsee in Bremerhaven for the first 6/2 version to leave the production line.

KBA making a splash [KBA]

2007-05-24T14:00:00+01:00

KBA Australasia is offering a wealth of information about the innovative KBA printing press range, which extends from small, half, medium and large format sheetfed offset presses through commercial web offset presses to single, double and triple-width newspaper presses.

One big step forward into large format with a KBA Rapida 142 [KBA]

2007-05-03T14:00:00+01:00

Last October representatives from Eurographic Press (EP) paid a visit to Spanish printing firm Novoprint in Sant Andreu de la Barca (Barcelona). The purpose of the visit was not only to see the company’s web offset and B1 (40in) sheetfed presses but also to learn why Novoprint, which has been active in the field for the past 20 years, has installed a 1,020 x 1,420mm (56in) five-colour KBA Rapida 142.

Successful joint appearance by KBA-Polska and KBA-Grafitec [KBA]

2007-04-24T14:00:00+01:00

For KBA, the Poligrafia trade fair in PoznaÅ„, where it was represented jointly for the first time by Warsaw-based Polish subsidiary KBA-Polska and Czech subsidiary KBA-Grafitec (Dobruška), was a resounding success. Polish customers signed up for three Performa 74 and four Performa 66 presses, with further contracts imminent.

KBA Colora Berliner Format Press for Reading Eagle [KBA]

2007-04-23T14:00:00+01:00

Reading Eagle Company has purchased a KBA Colora Berliner format press to be installed in a new production and distribution facility to be constructed in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania. Construction of the new facility will commence late this year to allow installation of the new Berliner Colora to begin in mid-2008. The completion of the project is targeted for early 2009.

Head of KBA development Georg Schneider retires [KBA]

2007-04-17T14:00:00+01:00

Georg Schneider, head of the development department at KBA’s main web press factory in Würzburg and one of the most innovative members of Germany’s press manufacturing industry, retires on 30 April shortly after his 67th birthday and almost 53 years after joining the company.

1-800-Postcards expands further with third KBA press [KBA]

2007-04-16T14:00:00+01:00

1-800-Postcards, a fast-growing New York City sheetfed, web and digital printer, has agreed to purchase its third KBA press: a Genius 52UV. The new press, being installed in April 2007, is part of a major multi-million dollar expansion at the firm’s Soho location and New Jersey facility. The new Genius 52UV press, the first of its kind in Manhattan, will join a new-generation KBA Rapida 105 (41in) eight-colour four-over-four B1 perfector press and a KBA web press.

Newsquest Glasgow adds colour and pagination options to KBA Colora press line [KBA]

2007-04-05T14:00:00+01:00

Newsquest Glasgow has begun a major extension to its KBA Colora production line with a €6 million investment to provide additional colour and pagination options.

KBA Comet for Standard Group, Nairobi [KBA]

2007-03-25T14:00:00+01:00

Nairobi-based Standard Group Ltd (SGL), owner of the KTN television station and publisher of Kenya’s oldest daily title, The Standard, will press the button in the autumn on a single-width, double-circumference KBA Comet.