KBA Report no. 36 out now

Innovation demands investment

The latest issue of KBA’s corporate magazine, Report, calls for entrepreneurial courage as a way out of the recession. “Farsighted printers and media players are making the most of the current widespread paralysis in order to reposition themselves in readiness for the upturn, whenever that may occur.more...

Third quarter figures for Koenig & Bauer

KBA: quarterly profit in a challenging year

While demand in the export-intensive press engineering sector has stabilised at a low level since the summer, German manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) sees no sign as yet of a sustained recovery.more...

Meeting attracts group members to connect with KBA web offset management

KBA Web Offset Users Group Continues Its Popular Traditional Annual Meeting

KBA North America in Dallas, Texas, continued its popular traditional annual meeting of its KBA Web Offset Users Group by utilizing a new webinar format. More than 40 KBA web offset user members at 14 different print sites participated in the two-day event over a three-hour time period each day in this first-of-its-kind meeting. The KBA Web Offset Users Group is a formally-chartered organization with bylaws, a board of directors, and its own website.more...

New technologies, new processes, new partners

Roiling 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. In tandem with the Beil Group KBA unveiled PlateTrans, an automated system for conveying the plates from pre-press to KBA’s compact Cortina and Commander CT presses.more...

The economic crisis demands a corporate response

“Here at KBA we are doing our level best to master the challenges posed by a shrinking market.” In his editorial for issue 35 of KBA’s corporate magazine, KBA Report, group president and CEO Helge Hansen appealed to politicians not to distort competition by extending state aid to the biggest industry players, thus endangering jobs at smaller enterprises that husbanded their resources prudently when the going was good and built up reserves for leaner times instead of spending capital on excessively high dividends and costly share buybacks.more...

Ongoing focus on innovation in print technology

According to the Wall Street Journal’s September update of The Patent Board’s Patent Scorecard for manufacturers of heavy industrial equipment*, KBA ranked 13th among the top 50, well ahead of its rivals. Of the globally active European players listed, KBA was only beaten by fellow German enterprise Voith (no. 4) and Swiss lift manufacturer Schindler (no. 12).more...