Open house for packaging printers at KBA in Radebeul

Tracking down production reserves: Rapida 142 or Rapida 185/205?

“XL or XXLplus?” was the question dominating the agenda of an open house targeting large format and packaging printers at the Radebeul facility of KBA on 11th March. Some 160 representatives of this market segment accepted the invitation to discuss the technical and economic implications of production in large format (XL) as opposed to superlarge format (XXLplus) in respect of prepress (Kodak), press (KBA) and postpress equipment (Bobst).more...

Packing a Punch

UK and Ireland Packaging and Display Operations Choose KBA

Perhaps more than in any other field of print the packaging and display sectors are genuinely global, with creatives often placing print simultaneously across country boundaries and in even in other continents as campaigns roll out around the world.more...

Industry Leader Sees Strong Signs in Point of Sale

Alderson Thinks POS-itive!

2009 may have been the printing sector’s ‘annus horribilis’ but Alderson Print Group MD Peter Alderson remains as committed to the cause as the day he and brother Ron set out on their business odyssey fifty years ago. And, with specialist divisions dedicated to commercial web, sheetfed litho, digital printing, specialist finishing and, most recently, large format Point of Sale, the Surrey-based operation is the closest thing we have to a weather-vane for our industry.more...

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...

Chesapeake to install a KBA Rapida

Chesapeake Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Packaging, a leading global supplier of paperboard packaging, has undertaken the first step in a major investment programme to strengthen its capacity and ensure it can continue to offer its customers the very best production options. more...

Enhancing energy efficiency with KBA’s new VariDryBLUE

The new-generation KBA VariDry dryer is no plutonium-powered “blue” time machine, though a time-leap “back to the future” certainly would be a sensation. But Doc Brown from the cult sci-fi classic hasn’t cornered the market in ingenious inventions – our new VariDryBLUE infrared/hot-air dryer redefines the benchmark in energy efficiency.more...