KBA’s Frankenthal Press Plant Celebrating Its 150th Jubilee

KBA Frankenthal also drove advances in web offset and folder technology. 1997 saw the launch of the Compacta 215, the world’s first 16-page shaftless commercial web press, some 200 installations of which were subsequently sold. It has since been succeeded by the C16. The 64-page Compacta 818 unveiled at Drupa 2000 and 70,000cph Compacta 217 that followed at Drupa 2004 are more recent examples of Frankenthal’s creativity. It also develops and builds heavy-duty folders for commercial and newspaper presses.