KBA North America

Hischar will officially begin his new post on Oct. 1, 2009. He previously was the president, CEO and board member of W+D Machinery Co., an Overland Park, KS wholly-owned subsidiary of a German manufacturer of envelope manufacturing machines.

KBA Service Select program is a complete line of customized service products designed to maximize the productivity and profitability of a customer’s KBA press.

DALLAS—Holger Garbrecht, KBA North America's president and CEO, will be stepping down effective Aug. 31 and is returning to Germany for what the press manufacturer termed family reasons. The company expects to name a new North American chief executive within the next several weeks.

Global press manufacturer KBA North America announced that Holger Garbrecht, CEO and president, will be stepping down August 31st from his current position in the United States and returning to Germany.

KBA North America, a global press manufacturer, announces that Ulrich Wicke, the former web offset sales manager for the Spanish and South American markets, will be taking over the position of vice president of sales and service for the web offset division in North America while Heinz Schmid, who has been the vice president of web offset sales for KBA’s newspaper and commercial web market for an unsurpassed 30 years will remain with KBA North America an advisory position to the team.

DALLAS—Press manufacturer KBA North America has completed its move to the new 60,000-square-foot headquarters on the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport complex for all sheetfed and web operations. Holger Garbrecht, KBA North America president and CEO, said the consolidated location will allow sales, training, service and the parts department to interact and reach customers quickly and efficiently.

KBA North America, a global press manufacturer headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has successfully completed its move to its new 60,000 sq ft state-of-the-art headquarters on the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport complex for all sheetfed and web operations.

Irwin Hodson Press, which recently took delivery of a 10-colour KBA Rapida 105 series UV perfecting press, since the beginning of May is also the first print company in the region to offer its customers climate-neutral products. For Irwin Hodson Press, this possibility was the logical next stage in its implementation of a comprehensive sustainability strategy. Long-term further development of the corporate environmental philosophy and the minimisation of climate impacts are placed firmly in the foreground.

KBA North America, a global press manufacturer forming a new headquarters in Dallas, Texas, will be displaying a KBA Rapida 106 41-inch and Genius 52 UV 20-inch sheetfed press at its booth at PRINT 09 from September 11 to 17 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The KBA Rapida 106 will ensure that attendees stay focused on KBA’s ingenuity, award-winning press line, and unique technology, and that the highly-automated Rapida 106 will continue its mandate as the makeready champion, which it established at Drupa 2008.

Printing Impressions' Commercial Printing Supplier News for May 2009