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News Release from: Heidelberg
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2004
Heidelberg Leads Way With Afghanistan
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Heidelberg is the first printing industry manufacturer to offer products and services direct in Afghanistan through the opening of a new training centre for printers and pre-press operators in Kabul,
Heidelberg is the first printing industry manufacturer to offer products and services direct in Afghanistan through the opening of a new training centre for printers and pre-press operators in Kabul The company's mission in Afghanistan is to support post-war reconstruction in the country and build sales of printing machinery (for the time being mainly used) and consumables, as well as training and services
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 6 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first orders for presses have already been received.
The company is offering training courses in a 300 square metre facility comprising a mechanical workshop with welding station, turning lathes and workbenches and an area for training on various printing presses and finishing machines.
Courses for pre-press are also available.
The basic courses generally last for six months and have places for up to 16 participants a year.
The Kabul training centre is in the grounds of Heidelberg's Afghanistan sales office, which was opened in April 2003.
The company currently has two staff and is co-ordinated by Heidelberg's eastern Europe sales company in Vienna.
After 23 years of war, Afghanistan's printing industry is, for the most part, in a rudimentary state.
Some of the country's 60 or so printshops have not yet resumed operations.
With the current period of reconstruction comes a heightened need for printed information, especially schoolbooks, which up to now have almost exclusively been imported.
The market also requires skilled personnel and good quality machinery if the value-added chain for the production of printed products is to be kept within the country.
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