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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Comet Web Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 May 2004
Comet Press 8th Consecutive KBA Buy For
Dutch Firm
At the end of the year a 75,000 copies per hour (cph) Comet with semi-commercial package will join an array of other KBA presses at Dutch printing house Janssen Pers Rotatiedruk in Gennep.
At the end of the year a 75,000 copies per hour (cph) Comet with semi-commercial package will join an array of other KBA presses at Dutch printing house Janssen Pers Rotatiedruk in Gennep "This will be the eighth time in succession that we have opted for KBA newspaper press technology
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 22 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Our association with KBA goes back decades," said Janssen Pers Rotatiedruk managing director Jan Verheijen.
According to Roel de Weerd, technical director of allied media enterprise Em.
de Jong in Baarle-Nassau, the contract favoured the Comet because its combination of heatset technology and two high-performance commercial folders offered the best concept.
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"The way KBA customised the Comet for us, with the new P3 pin folder plus numerous inline finishing and automation features, confirmed our belief that it was the right choice.
Its high level of productivity and quality standards will deliver the technology upgrade we need and substantially increase capacity.
Within the de Jong Janssen media group the new Comet will be the 17th KBA press," added de Weerd.
Established in 1883, Janssen Pers employs around 300 people and posts annual sales of more than 50m Euros ($60.8m).
Week for week, the Gennep plant prints 110 different titles with a total circulation of 18 million copies.
Alongside its own titles the company also does a lot of contract work.
The Comet will primarily be used to print full-colour flyers for furniture stores, DIY and garden centres and supermarkets.
It will be in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week as part of Janssen Pers' response to an emerging demand in the high-growth semi-commercial market for faster delivery, more flexible production and a better print quality, commented KBA.
The single-floor Comet press line has a 578mm (22.75") cut-off and can handle web widths variable between 635mm (25") and 1,000mm (39.5").
It will be fed by a Pastostar RC reel stand integrated in a Patras M reel-handling system and will comprise an H-type tower for four colour blanket-to-blanket, two P3 pin folders, one folder superstructure with one former and another with two turner bars, plus a gluing and softening device.
The variable slitter and the commercial superstructure support a high level of production flexibility, said KBA.
Provision has been made for a quarterfold facility plus length and cross perforators for inline finishing.
The press will be configured with a Megtec hot-air dryer, a chill roller stand and a silicone unit for heatset production.
The quality assurance and automation package for the SC Comet also encompasses reinforced inking and dampening units, automatic colour and cut-off register controls, KBA Basko web-tension control, web guidance prior to the printing unit and folder infeed, automatic blanket washing, automatic ink pumping for black and process inks and a console with diagnostics PC.
KBA believes it leads the field in the Dutch newspaper press market, with sales of four-across Commander, Colora and Journal presses and two-across Comets and Continents.
At the end of the year a Cortina will be shipped to Rodi Rotatiedruk in Broek op Langedijk, near Amsterdam.
The company said that the sales of its newspaper and commercial presses in Belgium have also been equally brisk. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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