Heidelberg Presents Nine-Month Figures for Financial Year 2006/2007

Nine-month sales and results show improvement in the divisions

In the Press Division (offset printing), sales rose to 2.251 billion Euro in the first nine months (previous year: 2.130 billion Euro). Incoming orders in the period under review amounted to 2.551 billion Euro (previous year: 2.395 billion Euro). The operating result after the first three quarters amounted to 157 million Euro (previous year: 121 million Euro). The positive business development within the press division was also affected by the considerably high demand for the large format, especially for the Speedmaster XL 105. In the current fiscal year Heidelberg is particularly investing in new technologies as there are Anicolor and a new generation of sheetfed printing presses of a larger format (Speedmaster XL 142/162).