Koenig & Bauer (KBA) has taken a further step to align the company in the mid-term by extending its credit lines for cash use and guarantees by three years. “With this step we are taking advantage of the current favorable interest rate level and have provided ourselves with a solid financial backing in the volatile capital-goods industry,” says KBA CFO Dr. Axel Kaufmann.
Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) demonstrated the new RotaJET 76 inkjet web press at the Hunkeler Innovationdays show in Lucerne, Switzerland. For its entry into the digital print market, KBA will at first be focussing on the target segments books, direct mailing, manuals, advertising, newsletters and newspapers.
Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has announced a price increase of 2.5 percent for its sheetfed offset presses with effect from April 15, 2013. This step is viewed as part of KBA's extensive program of measures supporting stronger and sustainable profitability across all fields of business.
WÜRZBURG, GERMANY—In response to the increased purchasing costs for materials, energy and other resource inputs, press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has announced a price increase of 2.5 percent for its sheetfed offset presses, effective April 15.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ February 2013 edition, featuring Meredith-Webb Printing and Conquest Bindery.
In the United States, KBA North America's 81˝ Rapida 205 sheetfed press is producing a variety of work at nearly 20 sites with unprecedented achievement. Two of these KBA customers have distinguished themselves by investing in the Rapida 205 twice with two of these 81˝ presses sitting side-by-side in their U.S. facilities.
In Autumn 2013, Koenig & Bauer will integrate its press manufacturing plant in Trennfeld, Germany, into its main plant in Würzburg. It is actively tackling the challenges caused by competition from online media, structural changes in the printing industry and enormous leaps in the productivity of new machinery in the significantly smaller global market for web offset presses
Gone are the days when sheetfed offset presses dominated the Graph Expo show floor. The high costs involved to ship and set up a large, multicolor offset press at a show—coupled with a dearth of revolutionary technology developments to showcase—makes it hard to justify the expenditure.
Fujifilm will show the J Press 720 inkjet press. Heidelberg will present Prinect Digital Workflow Integration. New features for the Kodak NexPress platform will be shown.
Digital inkjet printers on display seemingly everywhere, let alone all the buzz surrounding Benny Landa and his Nanographic Printing process, may have captured many of the headlines during drupa 2012, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a host of new lithographic press introductions, technology demonstrations and productivity enhancements shown within the stands of traditional press manufacturers.
