KBA Posts Pre-tax Profit in Third Quarter as Incoming Orders Spike

In this scenario, the surge in orders booked by German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) in the nine months to October, 2010 is pretty impressive. Group order intake jumped by 46.7 percent to €1.0 billion (2009: €682.3 million), enabling KBA to further expand its share of the market for sheetfed and newspaper presses and certain niche applications.