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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2004
Belgian's Take To Waterless For
Newspapers
Waterless newspaper offset has now spread to Belgium, where media player De Persgroep in Asse, near Brussels, has just become the third print enterprise to sign up for a KBA Cortina after Rodi Rotatie
Waterless newspaper offset has now spread to Belgium, where De Persgroep in Asse, near Brussels, has just become the third print enterprise to sign up for a KBA Cortina after Rodi Rotatiedruk in Broek op Langedijk (Netherlands), and Freiburger Druck (Germany) "We've been keeping a weather eye on the Cortina ever since the prototype was shown at Drupa 2000, and we believe it has now achieved market maturity," said De Persgroep technical manager John Peirlinckx
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 1 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The publisher of gazettes and newsletters, Nussbaum Medien in Weil der Stadt, is making the transition to waterless offset with the purchase of a KBA Cortina press.
The company is planning to replace its press fleet and decided to kick off with a 48-page Cortina because it will give it the performance and quality to bring coldset semi-commercial production in-house, whilst reducing waste and manning.
KBA carried out a detailed comparative cost analysis based on Persgroep's specific requirements.
The Persgroep Cortina will comprise three four-high towers, Pastomat RC reel stands and turner bar decks, a folder superstructure with two formers, a KF 5 jaw folder and a section stitcher.
Plate changing, ink pumping and blanket washing will all be automatic.
The double-width floor-mounted press will have a 520mm (201/2") cut-off, a maximum web width of 1,460mm (571/2") and a maximum rated output of 80,000 copies per hour (cph).
It will be installed in early 2005 in an extension to De Persgroep's existing site in Asse, replacing the oldest of four MAN presses.
It will print two of the group's newspaper titles (Het Laatste Nieuws, with a total circulation of around 350,000 copies, and DeMorgen with 75,000 copies) plus various tabloid inserts, some of which are currently outsourced.
De Persgroep's activities span newspapers, magazines, television, radio and the Internet. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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