KBA Reports Jump in Press Orders

Despite a perceptible lift in sales of batch-produced presses in North America, slack demand for newspaper web presses caused the proportion of the group total generated in this region to slide from 13.9 percent to 10 percent. However, sales to the threshold markets of Latin America and Africa soared, pushing up the regional total from 12.1 percent in 2009 to 20.6 percent.