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Former KBA president Dr Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann dies

Dr Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann, former longstanding president of KBA, died on 23 July at the age of 84. With him the KBA group and its employees have lost a popular and highly respected senior executive, the German engineering industry an innovator and internationally esteemed representative.more...

Italian printer orders further KBA newspaper press

Customised KBA Colora for Colasanto Group

Rome-based Editorial, part of the Colasanto Group, recently placed an order with KBA for a customised Colora tower press that will give it much greater flexibility in printing its many titles. Instead of the usual four plates across the cylinder width the two-around press has just three, ie six per plate cylinder.more...

Modern packaging print in the land of the Pharaohs

First Print heading for growth with fleet of Rapidas

When a company installs three large- and medium-format sheetfed presses within one year, it is undeniably on course for success. Although founded only in 2008, packaging specialists First Print in Obour City near the Egyptian capital of Cairo have already provided admirable proof of the dynamic growth potential of the print industry in the land of the Pharaohs.more...

KBA’s order intake up 39% on previous year

Following a successful consolidation in 2009, preliminary figures reveal that in the first six months of the current year German press manufacturer KBA posted a 39% increase in the Group order intake compared to the same period last year.more...

Badische Neueste Nachrichten in Karlsruhe also places its faith in innovative compact press technology

Newspaper house BNN recently became the second renowned German publisher to opt for a compact triple-width KBA Commander CT 6/2 press to modernise its print centre. more...