KBA’s Frankenthal Press Plant Celebrating Its 150th Jubilee

2001: from boom to bust
2000 was a record year for the press engineering industry, and at €1,087.4 million KBA’s group sales passed the billion euro mark for the first time. There were 6,584 employees, 1,562 of them in Frankenthal, Kusel and Berlin. But the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre sent the global economy plunging into recession.