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Thunderbolt Solutions29 July 2010
Entrepreneur, inventor, engineer, industry representative and patron † †Former KBA president Dr Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann dies †
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26 July 2010Italian printer orders further KBA newspaper press
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22 July 2010Tailor-made training courses are a key component of Muller Martini's service concept.
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22 July 2010Second High-Performance Saddle Stitcher from Muller Martini
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22 July 2010Three-Knife Trimmer 304 with Automatic Front-Trim Control from Muller Martini
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22 July 2010Modern packaging print in the land of the Pharaohs
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21 July 2010Parzeller Druck- und Mediendienstleistungen in Fulda, Germany
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15 July 2010Badische Neueste Nachrichten in Karlsruhe also places its faith in innovative compact press technology
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14 July 2010Climate neutral printing with KBA
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13 July 2010Alexander Huttenlocher new KBA sales director for newspaper presses
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09 July 2010First triple-width KBA Commander CT for Europe
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08 July 2010IBW is Ready for Pick-up in Demand
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07 July 2010First-class prints off second-hand KBA Rapidas
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06 July 2010UpCode Combines New Media with Print
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06 July 2010Finnish media entrepreneur Sture Udd has clearly demonstrated that a cell phone camera can be a great asset in a printing house. His supermedia system “UpCode" is leading to a rapid increase in his print product runs processed using Muller Martini systems.
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05 July 2010Modern newspaper printing in Spain with the KBA Commander CT
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29 June 2010TFP fires up first two-coater KBA Rapida 162a in Poland † †32-metre giant for top-quality packaging printing †
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25 June 2010High-volume commercial web press for the South of France
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23 June 2010International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012
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21 June 2010KBA Rapida 75 at Thammasat University in Bangkok
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21 June 2010Efficient Photo Book Production with the ‘Diamant MC digital'
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16 June 2010Bangkok-Based Si-Phya Acquires Two Muller Martini Insertion Systems
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15 June 201022-tower KBA Commander CT for West Ferry Printers
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11 June 2010Cutting-edge sheetfed technology for select circle
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10 June 2010Sophisticated sheetfed technology for Brazil
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09 June 2010KBA China represents the champions in packaging
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08 June 2010First KBA Rapida 106 double-coater press in Australia
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07 June 2010LogoTronic professional connects seamlessly with print management and costing system
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02 June 2010Since the reunification of Germany, East and West Berlin have forged close links. This interaction has been particularly successful for bookbindery Stein + Lehmann, which was formed in 2001 as the result of an ‘East-West merger'. With exceptional employees, a motivated management team and modern production machinery from Muller Martini, the bookbindery is a roaring success. † †
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02 June 2010Together with the new Primera E140 saddle stitcher, Comprinta AG in Zurich-Schwerzenbach, Switzerland has also commissioned the Connex digital workflow system from Muller Martini. “Connex is an important addition to our range of automation solutions and helps us to optimize our processes", says Daniel Schnyder, Managing Director of Comprinta. † †
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01 June 2010Addition to KBA Comet at Nation Media Group in Kenya
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28 May 2010Rapida 75 crowns Chili Padi Open House in Kuala Lumpur
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25 May 2010KBA Rapida 185 packaging press for Malaysia
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25 May 2010Gopsons Papers orders brace of Rapida 130a presses
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21 May 2010Rapida 105 for Egesan
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20 May 2010King Fahd Complex takes two big KBA Compacta 217 presses
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19 May 2010KBA demonstrates competitive edge in makeready, energy efficiency and closed-loop colour control
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12 May 2010†Big jump in orders, but earnings hit by slack sales † †• Order intake up 43% on previous year †• Order backlog over €100m higher than at year-end 2009 †• Group sales still behind target †• Consolidation and realignment progressing well †• Management reaffirms positive sales and profit forecast †
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10 May 2010High-performance KBA Commander hybrid press for Jordan
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07 May 2010Artotec – KBA Rapida pioneer in Pakistan
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04 May 2010KBA demonstrates creativity and competence in small format
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29 April 2010Four KBA Rapida 105 installations guaranteeing excellent quality
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21 April 2010Digital printing opens up a whole host of new opportunities. More and more people are now designing their own photo books, and this new medium has long since replaced the conventional photo album. Muller Martini has developed the Diamant MC digital specifically to guarantee efficient binding of digitally printed photo books, which have ultra-short runs. The system can produce photo books efficiently from just one copy.
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20 April 2010CPI group in France opts for innovative KBA technology
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15 April 2010Mensing sets milestone in print quality monitoring
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13 April 2010KBA C16: an innovative new commercial web press
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07 April 2010†“We're not undermining print, we're expanding its market potential!" †
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01 April 2010KBA Rapida 75: Barely 90 minutes for 11 jobs
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30 March 2010North Africa – a growing market for KBA sheetfed presses
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26 March 2010KBA posts modest profit – the exception in its sector
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25 March 2010Champions in Print stand for innovation and sustainability
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23 March 2010KBA invests €12 million in new foundry
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11 March 2010Open house for packaging printers at KBA in Radebeul
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08 March 2010Weber Druck+Display in Weyhe near Bremen
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08 March 2010Weber Druck+Display in Weyhe near Bremen
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04 March 2010Heider Druck proves that sustainability can be compatible with performance
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02 March 2010Insert Capacity Doubled † †Main-Echo, based in Aschaffenburg, Germany, can now simultaneously insert twice as many inserts as previously, thanks to a new mailroom solution from Muller Martini, which includes a ProLiner inserting system and a FlexiRoll buffer system. †
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26 February 2010New Primera E140 Saddle Stitcher for Berger Printing House in Horn (Austria) †
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26 February 2010[i]Zofingen-based Swiss Printers Ringier Print is increasingly turning to in-line production thanks to the new press delivery systems from Muller Martini, which feature the first Preciso DS double stream rotary trimmer in Switzerland. [i/]
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23 February 2010United Security in Dubai hopes that the commissioning of the new Concepta ¡V the first web offset printing press from Muller Martini ¡V will enable them to develop new business segments while also increasing exports.
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18 February 2010Increasing Net Output by 25 to 30% † †The Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Ges. m. b. H. printing house prints around 250 different newspapers, necessitating frequent changeovers. This is why the family business – based in Horn, Austria – decided to purchase a fully automated Primera E140 saddle stitcher from Muller Martini. † †
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11 February 2010In December 2007 Diligent Media Corporation and DB Corporation, two enterprises owned by Indian media major Dainik Bhaskar Group (DB Group), signed a contract with KBA for seven Prisma newspaper presses, totalling 25 printing towers, for multiple locations
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18 January 2010The Euradius Group in the Netherlands has squared up to mounting competition with the purchase of four Rapida 106 press lines featuring KBA's new Flying JobChange automation module at subsidiary Ten Brink.
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14 January 2010Printing house CPM Internacional, S.A., based in San Martin de la Vega (Spain), has favored a Muller Martini Alprinta 74V to expand its label printing capacity. The web offset printing press will be put into operation in spring 2010, right on schedule for the start of the busy period in beverage bottle labeling.
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14 January 2010VF Tryck, based in Karlstad in southern Sweden, has recently invested in an AlphaLiner, enabling it to make the transition from manual to automatic inserting processes. The tried-and-tested newspaper inserting system from Muller Martini was modified only recently, with the improvements boosting productivity by 20% to 18,000 cycles.
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11 January 2010Welcome knowledge transfer in high-growth Asia-Pacific markets † †In November last year KBA took to the road for the third time in Malaysia and Indonesia to promote new advances in sheetfed technology. †
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13 November 2009Baier & Schneider in Heilbronn, Germany, is a leading European manufacturer of diaries, notebooks and business writing products sold under its BRUNNEN brand. For several months the company has been using the new Diamant MC 60 bookline from Muller Martini for its production processes. After several months in operation, this latest Diamant generation has more than proven its ability to efficiently handle the unusually wide and sophisticated range of high quality hardcover products BRUNNEN produces.
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10 November 2009In summer of this year, PoS specialist Frontprint from Arlöv near Malmö/Sweden placed an order for the company's third large-format offset press from KBA, a six-colour Rapida 162a with inline coating. Founded only in 1982, Frontprint is today one of the leading packaging and display printers in Scandinavia and operates production facilities in Sweden, Denmark and China.
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05 November 2009Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) and its Russian subsidiary KBA RUS were represented with a 200 m² stand at the recent Polygraphinter fair in Moscow, where the exhibition centrepiece was a five-colour Rapida 75 press in a coater configuration for inline finishing. KBA was thus one of the few companies to cast away the worries of the economic recession and offer the local trade public live demonstrations of modern press technology.
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14 October 2009Following initial successes with a ProLiner line installed in June at Schenkelberg's headquarters in Meckenheim (Germany), subsidiary Union Druckerei Weimar has also now decided to invest in a new Muller Martini mailroom system.
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14 October 2009CSQ Intensifies Magazine and Semi-Commercials Business †with Stitching and Cutting Solution † †
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12 October 2009The new PUR side gluing technology from Muller Martini has delivered. On September 24, the SPN side gluing nozzle received the prestigious 2009 Innovation Award in the finishing and converting category at PrintNight in Stuttgart, Germany
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12 October 2009At the recent Print 09 event in Chicago, US, the German-based manufacturer produced a total of 17 unique 4/4 colour jobs, each with 500 saleable sheets, in one hour.
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03 August 2009Thanks to Muller Martini's newly developed and patented tWinScore technology for cover folder feeders in saddle stitchers, fiber breaks on folds are a thing of the past.
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31 July 2009Muller Martini (Zofingen, Switzerland) has acquired patents for the VSOP technology from Drent Goebel. A new Muller Martini VSOP series, offering flexible package and cardboard printing, will be launched by the end of 2009.
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31 July 2009The first KBA sheetfed offset press in Uruguay, a four-colour Rapida 105 with coater tower and extended delivery, went into production at Imprimex in Montevideo at the beginning of the year. The press has been configured with board-handling accessories, non-stop pile changing facilities at the feeder and delivery, dedicated sheet travel monitoring, semi-automatic plate changing, inking unit temperature control and a whole host of further automation components. It is thus ideally prepared to handle both packaging and commercial work.
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31 July 2009The Barleben printing center near Magdeburg (Germany) has increased flexibility when sorting inserts for the bi-weekly “Generalanzeiger" thanks to a new mailroom from Muller Martini. As well as two ProLiner and CoLiner inserting systems, the new solution also comprises FlexiRoll buffers for the independent operation of printing press and mailroom.
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31 July 2009Muller Martini increases efficiency and quality of its saddle stitchers with a range of reliable monitoring systems. † †The quality controls on Muller Martini saddle stitchers guarantee excellent stitching and cutting quality with little production waste. To ensure that the saddle stitchers operate efficiently and with as few errors as possible, the process monitoring system focuses on two areas: product make-up and product quality. The make-up control function looks at section identity and identifies missing sections. In order to achieve optimum quality, the saddle stitchers are equipped with checks to monitor the signature position, cutting quality and stitching.
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31 July 2009Montreal-based Transcontinental, the largest print corporation in Canada and the sixth largest in North America, has ordered four triple-wide versions of the ultra-compact KBA Commander CT for plants in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. It is one of the biggest newspaper or semi-commercial contracts Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has received in recent years. The four presses will have a total of sixteen towers, four single and two double folders and six heatset dryers. Installation of all four presses will start in the first quarter of 2010. The purpose of the investment is to accommodate long-term printing contracts and enhance efficiency.
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31 July 2009The sheetfed offset experts from Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) have never been ones to rest on their laurels, and so it was scarcely surprising that they should have yet another world premiere behind the curtains for an open-house at AZ Druck und Datentechnik in Kempten on 24th July. The banner resplendent above the high-tech medium-format Rapida 106 read “Goodbye to pit-stops!" – and the revolutionary innovation from KBA bears the exciting name “Flying JobChange". Some 40 decision-makers from European print companies were determined to be among the first to witness this revolution. With KBA Flying JobChange, the job changeover time in sheetfed offset dissolves practically to zero. And even ultra-short runs can thus be handled with an efficiency very close to that of digital print, but without compromising the clear benefits of an offset press, such as higher output, better print quality and a greater substrate and format flexibility.
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10 July 2009After using ten printing presses from other manufacturers, printing house Sefra s.r.l. in Valgatara near Verona in Italy turned to Muller Martini for the first time, opting for the Alprinta 74V. The new web offset press is primarily used to print labels – exclusively onto films.
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10 July 2009Muller Martini increases efficiency and quality of its saddle stitchers with a range of reliable monitoring systems.
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10 July 2009In a bold strategic move to raise its profile in the French magazine market, where long medium-format presses predominate, Imprimerie de Champagne has become the first printer in the country to invest in two KBA Rapida 142 6B (56in) eight-colour perfectors.
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10 July 2009At the Pack Print trade fair in Tunis from 20 to 23 May KBA was the only exhibitor to offer press demonstrations. The four-colour B2 (29in) Performa 74 on its joint stand with Tunis-based agency KBA-Maghreb confirmed the wisdom of this move by attracting a stream of visitors from Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and Congo, who also expressed keen interest in a Genius 52 UV from KBA-Metronic. The high-quality posters printed on the Performa were snapped up in no time. KBA's sales activities in the Maghreb and neighbouring countries have enabled it to establish a firm foothold in this market.
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10 July 2009Despite the economic crisis attendance was high at the Poligrafia trade fair from 21 to 24 April in Poznan, Poland. The focus of attention was a six-colour B2 (29in) KBA Rapida 75 – the only sheetfed offset press demonstrated at the fair and evidence of the strong presence that KBA and its local subsidiaries, Warsaw-based KBA-Polska and KBA-Grafitec in the Czech Republic, have established in the Polish market.
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10 July 2009Production of Ecuador's oldest newspaper, El Telégrafo in Guayaquil, will be transferred to a KBA Colora by the end of the year. For managing director Alex Camacho Sotomayor the investment is a major step towards addressing demands from readers and advertisers for enhanced colour, quality and immediacy.
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10 June 2009The main challenge faced by the graphics industry is the ergonomics of machines and work processes. The new Primera saddle stitcher from Muller Martini is a great example of how much progress has been made in terms of operation.
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02 June 2009For the first time the Italian Palladio Group chose a web offset printing press from Muller Martini. At the Dueville plant near Vicenza it is used to print innovative products for the medicinal branch – packing slips with perforations, for example.
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02 June 2009Luinostamp S.r.l., based in Brezzo Di Bedero, in Northern Italy, manufactures hardcover books with its VenturaConnect Integrated Book Sewing System and Diamant 30 Bookline. The company attaches great importance to high quality books and strives to meet all the customers' needs. This is the secret of its success.
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02 June 2009Offering an impressive range of formats, a host of different gluing and binding methods, simple operation and a compact design, the Pantera perfect binder from Muller Martini has quickly established itself as a best-selling product. The 100th line was recently installed in the USA.
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02 June 2009With fine zoning right down to individual streets, the Canadian Metroland Group has made a name for itself as the insert specialist. To manage the highly complex inserting and packaging process, Metroland uses 15 AlphaLiners from Muller Martini in seven different plants in metropolitan Toronto and in south/central Ontario.
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02 June 2009Koopmanndruck in Stuhr near Bremen specializes in high quality mailings with finishing. Many of these are printed on an eight-color Concepta. Koopmanndruck uses this in addition to several other web offset machines from Muller Martini.
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02 June 2009For sheetfed printers keen to raise their market profile with sophisticated, value added inline and offline coating effects, KBA has brought out a guide to the production processes involved in creating and reliably reproducing such effects. The guide, "Coating Sample Book – Technology by KBA", contains an assortment of coating effects complete with instructions on how to achieve them, the press configurations required and the materials used.
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02 June 2009Innovations in state-of-the-art machines have always been the trademark of the printing house and bookbindery Haidemenos SA in the Greek capital, Athens. In 2008, in addition to a new PrimaPlus saddle stitcher, the family business also commissioned a new Muller Martini press delivery system with Preciso rotary trimmer and a Listo stacker.
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26 March 2009Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann (57), president and CEO of German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) since 2003, has resigned with immediate effect from all offices within the group.
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10 February 2009Exhaustive field tests on a new Colora coldset/heatset press line at Greek customer Kathimerini have given KBA engineers and print technicians valuable insights into semi-commercial and hybrid print production of a depth and breadth previously unknown.
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20 January 2009With the start of production in late November of two eight-colour Rapida 106 perfectors, both with DriveTronic SPC direct plate cylinder drives, Indonesian market leader PT Gramedia Printing Group in Jakarta is continuing the successful cooperation with Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) which started in 2001.
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30 May 2008With the Presto E90, Muller Martini presents a further development of the proven Presto: with the fresh Muller Martini color, Laserblue, a whole series of technical improvements and the new three-knife trimmer 1565.
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21 December 2007With the new Muller Martini Pantera, the first perfect binder of its kind in England, Point Control in Accrington can now meet its customers' PUR demands.
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16 October 2007The Thunderbolt Solutions Tour to Drupa is now open for bookings. There are three tours available allowing companies wanting to send representatives to Drupa to select the one which best meets their needs. The prices listed below are for twin-rooms sharing and all flights are on an Economy Class basis. The surcharge rate for single rooms is R8 500.00 per tour and upgrades to Business Class flights are available upon-request to the Travel Management Company.
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22 November 2006Horst Sill, well-known in the South African printing industry, has retired after a long career supplying printing inks and ink handling systems both locally and internationally.
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