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Compacta printing unit used for training the polygraphic elite in Russia

KBA supports Moscow college MGUP

Moscow’s State University of Printing Arts is the only institute of technology that trains specialists for Russia’s publishers, printing houses, book traders and other related industries. The history of the university began in 1930 with the founding of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, which at that time consisted of only three faculties. The Faculty of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering opened a few years later, and the university began to train specialists in the main fields of printing and publishing. Over the course of its nearly 77 years of history, the university has become one of Russia’s most renowned academic and scientific institutions with a highly-qualified teaching staff.  
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The 16-page rotary Compacta 215 printing unit will be installed in a purpose-built lab at MGUP and will offer the next generation of Russia’s managers the opportunity of practical further training 
Today, the MGUP has some 6,000 registered students, spread across five faculties with a total of 30 academic chairs. An interesting feature is the high proportion of female students (approx. 75%) who have chosen to study the printing arts. Each year, more than 1,000 new students apply to the Moscow institution, which enjoys a nationwide reputation. It has many international relationships, chief among them a student exchange programme with a university in South Korea. 
 
Koenig & Bauer AG has enjoyed a close relationship with MGUP for many years, providing considerable support to the training of Russia's polygraphic elite. KBA has just donated the university a printing unit of its Compacta 215 rotary commercial offset press range for training purposes. The printing unit will be installed in a laboratory specially built for KBA and will offer the next generation of Russia's managers the opportunity to discover the modern printing press industry in a practical way. In use throughout the world for a good ten years already, the Compacta 215 was the first rotary commercial offset press to be fitted with the KBA DriveTronic shaftless AC drive. This is now standard on modern web offset presses. The Compacta 215 also boats the renowned Minigap system with the blanket plates. This reduces the non-printing area to just 6 mm and has since been adopted by other manufacturers for their own applications, e.g. on six-blanket-wide newspaper presses. 
The official certificate marking the donation of the Compacta 215 printing unit was handed over to Dr. Alexei Fedorovitch Benda, professor and prorector of MGUP, during a visit by Christoph Müller, KBA’s Rotary Press Sales, Marketing and Service Director. Also at the meeting, KBA Sales Director Dr. Peter Jargstorf was thanked for his many years of service on the board of trustees of MGUP, while Christoph Müller was appointed as a new member of the board of trustees of the institution. 
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Christoph Müller (centre), KBA sales director for rotary presses, and Dr. Peter Jargstorf (on left), the recently retired KBA sales director for sheetfed presses in eastern Europe, handed the official certificate marking the donation of the Compacta 215 printing unit to Dr. Alexei Fedorovitch Benda, professor and prorector of MGUP (1) 
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