KBA Reports Sheetfed Press Orders Hit Harder than Web

Export ratio dips to 84.6%
The slide in domestic sales – by 6.3% from €251.4m to €235.5m – was less marked than in other parts of the world, largely thanks to buoyant sales of sheetfed presses. Deliveries to the rest of Europe accounted for 51.4% (2007: 52.2%) of total group sales, while the shipment of several large newspaper press lines to India boosted the proportion of group sales generated in Asia and the Pacific from 14.7% to 17.7%. However, US printers’ continued reluctance to invest in new kit reduced the volume of North American sales to 9.4%. Latin America and Africa together contributed 6.1% of the group total.