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News Release from: KBA
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 June 2004
Orders From Chinese Newspaper Presses
Give Boost
The continued dynamic growth of the Southeast Asian markets has established the region as one of the most important for German press manufacturer KBA.
The continued dynamic growth of the Southeast Asian markets has established the region as one of the most important for German press manufacturer KBA Over the past years, the company has installed a number of newspaper presses at prominent publishing houses in Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and India
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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But KBA believes that it is the People's Republic of China that is gradually confirming its lead as the central market in the Far East, also in the newspaper sector.
Further contracts for three single-width newspaper presses of KBA's Comet and Continent series have just been concluded with newspaper publishers in China.
Two of those installations have been configured with a heatset package for the printing of semi-commercial titles.
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The media house Yunnan Daily in Kunming, the capital of the western province of Yunnan, will be taking delivery of a KBA Continent with hot-air dryer at the end of 2004.
The four-high tower installation is to produce semi-commercial inserts and supplements for nine daily newspapers and three magazines, as well as for the 27 further newspaper titles printed on a contract basis.
It is to comprise four KBA Pastoline reel stands, two towers of H-type printing units and an AF 16 jaw folder.
The provincial capital Hangzhou, 200km to the southwest of Shanghai, is the headquarters of the Hangzhou Daily Press Group.
As a publisher of four daily newspapers with a regular circulation of more than three million copies, as well as two magazines, the group has signed up for a single-width KBA Comet with provisions for semi-commercial production to be delivered during late-2004.
The Comet will include three reel stands, two four-high towers, a jaw folder, and a heatset package.
A further KBA Comet with eight towers, ten reel stands and two jaw folders has been ordered by the Hua Shang Bao Newspaper Group for its central print facility in Xian, the capital of Shaanxi Province in Central China.
The group publishes newspapers and magazines in four cities, among them the Chinese Business View.
The first section of the new press is ready to be shipped and will be followed by a second towards the end of the year.
To help capitalise on its current presence in the Far Eastern markets, KBA will be present at the Publish Asia 2004 show at the Suntec City Convention Centre in Singapore on July 1 and 2.
A reception at KBA user Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is planned during the event, where visitors will be able to see the KBA Commander that went on line there in 2003.
The press has a total of 224 printing couples and is used primarily to print the SPH flagship title The Straits Times that has a daily circulation of up to 450,000 copies. Request free introductory details about products from KBA ...
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