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News Release from: KBA North America
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 May 2006
US And Canadian Firms Tour KBA In
Germany
KBA North America invited a select number of US and Canadian printers to visit its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Radebeul (Germany) as part of a four day trip.
KBA North America invited a select number of US and Canadian printers to visit its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Radebeul (Germany) as part of a four day trip The group of 80 was treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the factory assembly hall, the research and development facility and several cutting-edge printers who are utilising KBA presses
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 10 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ralf Sammeck, president and chief exeuctive officer of KBA North America, said: "Our open house in Germany provided top North American printers with an in-depth education on how to decide on one of our popular presses from a long perfector 41" press to a large-format press.
This was accomplished by showing them make-readies for commercial, packaging and label jobs, including hybrid technology and comparing costs and throughput on both types of presses." First stop for the group was the KBA headquarters, assembly hall, and research and development facility in Radebeul, outside of Dresden.
The group saw first-hand KBA's method of individually building presses for each of its customers, then shipping the press, and having the same German press crew re-build the press on their premises.
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The group learned how KBA builds its perfector presses and saw a couple of long perfector presses, including special configurations with coaters on each end being test-printed and prepared for shipping.
Adjacent to KBA's headquarters, the group visited Ellerhold Grossplakate, one of the biggest poster printers in Europe, which laid claim to the world's first Rapida 205 81" sheetfed press in January 2004.
The group was treated to a production run on the huge press to see how Ellerhold produces posters within 24 hours.
The group's next stop was to a printer whose philosophy is to only take internet orders and whose sales have been doubling each year.
Within the facility.
The visitors saw the variety of nine KBA presses in use ranging from a 20" model to a large-format model linked via KBA's Logotronic management system.
The company's philosophy and its KBA presses have propelled the firm to post US$25 million in sales in last year, US$50 million in sales for this year, and an estimated US$100 million in sales for next year.
In Berlin, the group visited a large-format printer who maintains his pre-press and order facility in Berlin and a satellite production plant outside of the city.
The satellite plant utilises a KBA Rapida 64" press with in-line slitter, which is calibrated to match the pre-press facilities in the city.
No proofs of any kind are in use.
KBA said that the press is calibrated to match a customer's request and one day per week the printer produces packaging work.
The other four days, the company produces commercial work.
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