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News Release from: KBA | Subject: TR10B Gravure Presses
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2004
150m Euro Spending Targets 2 More
Gravure Presses
Just two years after entering the European gravure market Lenglet Gravure in Cambrai (France) is spending heavily again on new equipment.
Just two years after entering the European gravure market Lenglet Gravure in Cambrai (France) is spending heavily again on new equipment In 2005 and 2006 its two existing KBA presses will be joined by two identical ones to handle a big jump in orders
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The third TR10B for Cambrai is scheduled to come on stream in June 2005, the fourth, identical, press line will go live a year later.
By then the company will have invested a total of 150m Euros ($186.6m) in its new plant.
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Company proprietor Jean Lenglet has been pursuing this corporate vision single-mindedly since 2001.
"We are implementing an continuing investment strategy with the aim of creating a cutting-edge printing plant for publication rotogravure," he said.
The first press was commissioned in spring 2002 at the company's 130,000 square metre (32-acre) greenfield site.
The second press followed a year later.
Jean Lenglet commented: "We realised that offset was fast approaching its limits and we were firmly convinced that gravure is the technology of the future.
It is the only cost-effective alternative to offset for high-volume, high-pagination print production.
Modern, high-performance production plants are essential for handling customers' work to the quality standards and within the delivery time frames they demand, and this is why gravure is the best solution.
Practical experience during the past two years has confirmed all our prognoses." He said that the company's success with its first gravure presses had encouraged it to start the second phase of the project.
The printing plant had been designed from the start for a much bigger production capacity.
William Lenglet explained: "We have a large and varied customer base.
Most of the products we print are high-volume catalogues or magazines, so it is extremely important for us to offer wide, high-speed printing presses with a high output capability.
We have succeeded in making a name for ourselves in the European printing market after just two years production with our existing KBA presses." The first of the two big KBA TR10B press lines, which have a web width of 3,684mm (145") and a maximum cylinder circumference of 1,530mm (60.25"), went live in spring 2002.
Each press can print 144 A4 pages in one impression, at a maximum web speed of more than 15 metres per second (mps), or 2,992 feet per minute.
The web can be slit into 14 ribbons and the copy stream guided over two parallel deliveries, for 2 x 72 pages via the two folders, for example.
The presses are configured with three control consoles each and linked to finishing systems with a pallet robot at the end of each one. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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