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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.
NEWS Limited has ordered a single-width, double-circumference KBA Comet press line for Davies Brothers in Hobart, publishers of the Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian.
German press manufacturer, KBA has place a significant number of sheetfed offset presses
of its highly automated medium-format Rapida 105 series in South Korea
in 2007.
The DB Group companies Diligent Media Corporation and DB Corporation in Mumbai, India, have placed the largest ever single order for printing press lines by an Indian publisher with Koenig & Bauer (KBA).
Commercial printer Hao Jin Cai, in conjunction with Goss International,
recently held an open house at its Chengdu, China print facility to
mark the successful start-up of its Goss M-500 commercial web offset
press.
Baldwin Webcatchers are reducing press downtime by half after web breaks at Japanese daily newspaper, Iwate Nichi-Nichi Shimbun published in the city of
Ichinoseki in north-eastern Honshu.
The Post Publishing Public Company Limited of Bangkok, Thailand, responsible for both the English-language Bangkok Post and its Thai-language companion, The Post Today,
has installed two Agfa :Polaris violet-laser Computer-to-Plate imaging
systems along with :Sublima cross-modulated screening technology.
The world’s biggest coldset/heatset hybrid newspaper press line has begun operasitons at the West Australian Newspaper group in Perth.
Printing Supplies and Machinery took its new Presstek products on the road in November, travelling to Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland to show the Presstek 52DI press and the chemistry free Vector TX52 CTP system.
With its third Goss Community press just up and running in Jakarta, Indonesian book publisher, Ganeca Exact, has signed a further contract with Goss International for its fourth and fifth Community SSC presses.
With its gross domestic product expanding at a rate of 7.9 per cent a
year, India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Growth
figures in the printing industry of between 12 and 14 per cent are
second only to China’s and KBA is among the suppliers reaping the benefits.
With its gross domestic product expanding at a rate of 7.9 per cent a
year, India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Growth
figures in the printing industry of between 12 and 14 per cent are
second only to China’s and KBA is among the suppliers reaping the benefits.
Established in 1974, Hawkes Bay's tertiary institute EIT Hawke's Bay is still growing, and its printing department now largely a digital operation, is currently undergoing an upgrade.
Manuwatu-based Print & Packaging Services has expanded into a full turnkey operation with the purchase of its own truck which will enable it to relocate and install equipment around the country more easily.Manawatu-based Print & Packaging Services has expanded into a full turnkey operation with the purchase of its own truck which will enable it to relocate and install equipment around the country more easily.
Hobson Street Color Copy and Print, one of the last surviving inner city printers still offering offset printing on site, is upgrading equipment to service its thriving digital and offset business to its core market, a block of office towers within one kilometer of its premises.
Mark-it Labels Ltd has just installed a Rotomag Flexo printing press into its Christchurch operation to put it at the forefront of its printing and variable-information market.
Despite the import duties which remain for printing presses imported
into China, KBA has recorded further sales there to follow up on its
very successful participation at the Print China fair in April 2007.
QuadTech and Manugraph have continued to secure their established
business relationship by collaborating on a celebration to mark the
100th installation of a QuadTech press control on a Manugraph press in
India.
Despite the import duties which remain for printing presses imported
into China, KBA has recorded further sales there to follow up on its
very successful participation at the Print China fair in April 2007.
One of Indonesia's biggest printing companies, PT Gramedia Printing
Group, has installed a new shaftless Goss Magnum 4 press at its main
plant in Palmerah, Jakarta.
GEON Group has placed a major multi-million dollar order with Heidelberg, following its announcement to move into its own purpose-built facility in Auckland at the end of this year.
Following on from a string of sales successes in China, Goss
International has taken an order from the Fung Choi Media Group in Guangzhou for a Goss M-500 web press.
Border Mail Printing Pty Ltd in Wodonga, Vic, has streamlined its print
process since the installation of a QuadTech Ribbon Control System with
MultiCam and a QuadTech Register Guidance System with MultiCam on its
Goss Uniliner.
New Zealand’s Taranaki Daily News went live yesterday as the first editorial pages were produced using the latest Atex electronic production system.
Oce has launched its new VarioPrint 6250 in Australia, which with a printing speed of 250 A4 double sided sheets a minute is aiming to take the company into the expanding and highly competitive high volume market.
Two leading Japanese commercial printers, Daicolo and at Nishikawa Group, have joined a growing list of satisfied chemistry-free Agfa :Azura digital plate users.
The year 2006 was a good one for MAN Roland Greater China with three major printing firms, Suzhou Dongyi Packaging Printing, Zhejiang Sanli Printing and Shenzhen Hua Yang Printing all installing new MAN Roland machines to give them an edge in a highly competitive market.
Agfa Graphics announced yesterday that more than 3000 customers worldwide are now connected to the :IntellSyst remote diagnostic system for :ApogeeX workflow software and other Agfa products.
KBA Australasia has received an order from Goprint, the Queensland government printer, for a fully optioned, new generation Rapida 105 six-colour press with perfecting and a top speed of 18,000 sheets per hour.There are 96 items tagged with installations. You can view all our tags in the Tag Cloud
