KBA’s Frankenthal Press Plant Celebrating Its 150th Jubilee

1990: formation of the KBA group
At the Drupa 1990 international trade fair in Düsseldorf the two merged enterprises exhibited for the first time as the Koenig & Bauer-Albert group under a new logo with an A for Albert in the left-hand circle of the Koenig & Bauer logo. Competences were reassigned: double-width newspaper presses were included in Koenig & Bauer’s remit along with banknote, security, directory, sheetfed offset, sheetfed gravure and special presses. In return its Compacta series and all commercial web offset activities were transferred to Frankenthal, which as world market leader also retained rotogravure presses.