KBA’s Frankenthal Press Plant Celebrating Its 150th Jubilee

KBA Frankenthal extended its lead in publication rotogravure, shipping the world’s first 3.6m (11ft 9in) wide press, a TR 10B, to Broschek Druck, Hamburg, in 1996. The first 4.32m (14ft 2in) wide TR 12B press was delivered to maul-belser, Nuremberg, in 2004. At its peak KBA Frankenthal was installing as many as ten big gravure press lines a year. The largest single contract was placed in 2005 by UK printer Prinovis for a new plant in Liverpool and included three 4.32m wide presses. That same year Frankenthal sold its first decorative gravure printing press.