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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

KBA’s order intake up 39% on previous year

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 Koenig & Bauer AG 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...

22-tower KBA Commander CT for West Ferry Printers

West Ferry Printers, a subsidiary of Express Newspapers Group, is to move from its London Docklands home of the past 24 years to a new, as yet unnamed site, possibly to the north of London and close to the M1/M25 corridor. more...

KBA Rapida 185 packaging press for Malaysia

Malaysian printing and packaging specialist Linocraft Printers in Johor Bahru has placed an order with KBA for the biggest litho press in Southeast Asia, an 8B (73in) Rapida 185. The six-colour coater version with dryer was chosen because it will enable the company to move into the high-volume VLF packaging sector.more...