KBA North America

WILLISTON, VT—07/01/08—KBA North America, a global press manufacturer, pronounced Drupa 2008 a resounding success with a capacity crowd and sales success at the KBA booth during each of the 14 show days. Attendance figures soared and KBA’s spacious show booth surrounded by four litho presses was often so packed that it was almost impossible to push one’s way through. “Drupa 2008 exceeded our expectations in many ways,” says Holger Garbrecht, president and CEO of KBA North America. “According to group president and CEO Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann, the 14-day print media trade fair held in Düsseldorf in late May to early June, has brought in

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—Unimac Graphics, in Carlstadt, NJ, placed an order for a six-color KBA Rapida 106 at Drupa 2008, four years after it obtained a Rapida 105 at the last Drupa. The printer’s new six-color plus coater model with extended delivery and perfecting after the second unit will also feature DriveTronic SPC dedicated cylinder drives and…

DALLAS—Best Press ordered two Komori LS presses, a 10-color Lithrone S40 perfector and a six-color Lithrone S40 equipped with UV capabilities. During Drupa, each customer that placed an order for a Komori press received a lithograph produced on one of the first machines the company manufactured, circa 1930.

PALO ALTO, CA—Taylor Corp., based in North Mankato, MN, and O’Neil Data Systems, Los Angeles, are to be among the beta sites for the new HP Inkjet Web Press, the manufacturer announced during Drupa. Taylor provides business and personal communications products, technologies and services. O’Neil offers data-driven marketing communication and publishing services. The press is…

ROCHESTER, NY—Xerox Corp. announced at Drupa that Ifolor AG, a photo and print lab based in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, has agreed to purchase multiple Xerox iGen4 presses and is upgrading three of its existing iGen3 presses with the new Automated Color Quality Suite Press Matching System. The company, which specializes in the production of photos, posters,…

WILLISTON, VT—KBA North America will move its corporate headquarters to Dallas in the summer of 2009, bringing the sheetfed and web divisions under one roof along with the company’s sales, service and parts departments, as well as the demonstration center. Current employees are being invited to relocate to Dallas, and KBA plans to have an…

WÜRZBURG, GERMANY—06/19/08— At the 83rd AGM of German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA), group president and CEO Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann revealed that Drupa, a 14-day print media trade fair recently held in Düsseldorf, had brought in orders worth more than €200m, surpassing the figure for the previous Drupa in 2004. Most of the contracts were for batch-produced sheetfed presses, sales of which had been badly hit in the first five months by a slump in the key US market. Judging by the response to KBA’s product launches, post-Drupa business also promises to be brisk. The total volume of sales generated by the fair

WILLISTON, VT—06/19/08—KBA North America, a global press manufacturer currently based in Williston, VT, is announcing that its corporate headquarters will be moving to Dallas, TX, in the summer of 2009. The relocation will join the KBA sheetfed and web divisions under one roof along with the sales, service and parts departments as well as the corporate demonstration center. “We’ve been headquartered outside of Burlington, Vermont for more than 20 years,” says Holger Garbrecht, KBA North America president and CEO. “But with our continued growth in all market segments it is the ideal time for us to move to a more central location to better

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—06/09/08—At the last Drupa, Unimac Graphics in Carlstadt, NJ, placed an order for a Rapida 105. At this year’s version of the greatest print-media show on earth, KBA sheetfed technology was once again the company’s preferred choice, with president George Amann signing a contract for the delivery of a Rapida 106, the world makeready champion in medium format. The six-color coater version with extended delivery and perfecting after the second unit will also sport DriveTronic SPC dedicated cylinder drives and no-sidelay infeed. The press is slated to ship in October. Unimac prints top-of-the-market commercial products, and George Amann pursues a strategy of ongoing

PORTLAND, OR—KBA North America, a global press manufacturer based in Williston, Vermont, announces that Irwin-Hodson, a commercial printing company, has signed a contract to purchase a new KBA Rapida 105 41-inch 10-color long perfector press with double coaters, full conventional and UV capabilities, and a host of KBA’s newest technology features. The press will be delivered this summer and will be in operation in the early fall of 2008. “We see this new KBA press as the perfect tool in our arsenal to differentiate us from our competitors,” says T.J. McDonald, president and CEO of Irwin-Hodson. “Purchasing this press keeps us up-to-speed as pioneers