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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...

Koenig & Bauer AG: preliminary half-year figures

Press manufacturer on course to meet 2010 targetsFollowing 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 (€489.1m).more...

International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012

30 KBA newspaper customers carry off quality awards

This year 162 newspaper titles from 43 countries worldwide competed for membership of WAN-IFRA’s exclusive International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012. Alongside coldset titles the jury assessed for the first time heatset products printed on standard newsprint and improved stock. more...

Perceptible upturn in printing press sector

At the 85th annual shareholders’ meeting of press manufacturer KBA in Würzburg, president and CEO Helge Hansen reported that demand for both sheetfed and web presses had picked up strongly since March. According to preliminary figures, the order intake of €500m for the first five months of the current business year was almost 23% up on the prior-year figure.more...

KBA demonstrates competitive edge in makeready, energy efficiency and closed-loop colour control

Under the banner “KBA: Champions in Print” Koenig & Bauer in hall 6 is strutting its stuff at this year’s Ipex in Birmingham with some dazzling exhibits that include the makeready world champion in B1 – its cutting-edge Rapida 106 – and the champion in energy efficiency, the B2 Rapida 75E (“E = Economy & Ecology”). more...

Big jump in orders, but earnings hit by slack sales

In the first quarter of 2010 German press manufacturer KBA booked a big increase in new business compared to the same period the previous year. The group order intake climbed 43.2% to €314.4m (2009: €219.5m), with the increase in web and special presses (43.1%) roughly the same as in sheetfed presses (43.5%). more...