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Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 July 2004
KBA Engineer Retires After 530 Patents
In 41 Years
Arndt Jentzsch, sheetfed veteran and senior engineer at KBA's Radebeul (Germany) plant, retires today.
Arndt Jentzsch, sheetfed veteran and senior engineer at KBA's Radebeul (Germany) plant, retires today Born in 1939, Arndt Jentzsch started his career in 1963 as a design engineer at the Victoria Heidenau printing works after gaining a degree at the Engineering Institute in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz)
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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When the Polygraph combine was formed in 1970 he was transferred to the superstructure engineering department at Planeta in Radebeul.
Arndt Jentzsch was appointed senior engineer in 1990 and assistant vice-president in 1991, when KBA took a majority stake in Planeta.
Following the merger of the Radebeul subsidiary with the parent company in 1998 he became a member of KBA management.
Jentzsch has put his name to more than 530 domestic and foreign patents, and in 1984 was honoured with an award of merit for his benchmark inventions in sheetfed offset engineering.
In an age of ever-greater specialisation he has gained a reputation in the international industry as one of a rare breed of engineers with a profound knowledge of the workings and interaction of every single press component and process.
His signal achievements at KBA include the merger of Koenig and Bauer's sheetfed presses with Planeta's in the early nineties, the recent upgrade - demonstrated at Drupa - of every single model, from the small-format Genius 52 upwards, and the addition of the biggest sheetfed offset press worldwide, the Rapida 205.
KBA said that thanks largely to Jentzsch's creative drive it lays claim to the most advanced press range in the global marketplace, with speeds of up to 18,000 sheets per hour, advanced automation features and numerous innovations like lay-free infeed on the new Rapida 105.
Arndt Jentzsch's successor from July 1 will be Christian Ziegenbalg, 39, who joined KBA Radebeul in 1990 after studying process machine engineering in Chemnitz.
From 1996 to 1999 he was head of feeder engineering at KBA-M?dling in Austria before being appointed head of printing and coating unit engineering in Radebeul. Request free introductory details about products from KBA ...
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