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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 February 2005
Waterless Press To Target Quality-Swiss
Newspapers
Prominent Swiss printer Centre dImpression Edipresse (CIE) has followed in the footsteps of German, Dutch and Belgian newspaper publishers by signing up for waterless offset with KBA.
Prominent Swiss printer Centre dImpression Edipresse (CIE) Lausanne in Bussigny has followed in the footsteps of German, Dutch and Belgian newspaper publishers by signing up for waterless offset with KBA's mini-tower Cortina press KBA believes that the Edipresse media group's choice of the Cortina for the quality-conscious Swiss market signals a growing acceptance of waterless offset and encouragement to continue its ongoing efforts to standardise high-volume newspaper production
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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CIE director Jean-Paul Chassot said: "This order confirms our commitment to newspapers and magazines, which will remain our core business.
Our extensive online activities - media services and e-publishing - complement our print activities, they will not replace them.
Our raison dêtre is to publish top-quality titles and technology is essential.
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Early this year Belgian media group De Persgroep in Asse near Brussels placed an order for a 48-page KBA Cortina scheduled for installation in autumn 2005 at a new printing plant in Lokeren.
We believe this is the best way to address the changing needs of our readers, advertisers and print buyers.
We saw the compact Cortina being put through a series of challenging tests and were impressed by the sophistication of its waterless offset technology, by its enormous quality potential, minuscule waste rate and advanced level of automation." He added that investing in the 64-page press line will not only give the company plenty of room to expand capacity at a later date but also make print production much more cost-effective and environmentally friendly while enhancing the visual impact of its titles.
The Cortina will go on stream in mid-2006 and will initially print one of daily titles, '24 Heures'.
The Cortina press line for Edipresse will have a cylinder circumference of 940mm (37"), a maximum web width of 1,280mm (50.5") and a rated output of 40,000 full-colour broadsheets per hour.
It will be installed in an extension to the existing site and will be configured as a substructure press with two four-high towers plus one eight-high tower with automatic plate changing and colour-register control, central ink pumping and blanket washing.
It will be fed by four KBA Pastomat RC reel-stands for a maximum web width of 1,500mm (59"), four double turner bars, a folder superstructure with two formers, cut-off register controls and a KF 5 (2:5:5) jaw folder with skip slitter and section stitcher.
The press will be controlled and monitored from a console with diagnostics PC.
Optional equipment includes a ribbon stitcher, slitter and ribbon mover for handling narrow webs.
Provision has been made to extend the press line at a later date with one eight-high tower, two reelstands and a second folder.
The Edipresse group publishes more than 125 titles in nine countries: Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Mexico.
It operates seven printing plants and employs over 3,000 people, around 1,800 of them in Switzerland.
Its newspaper activities focus on the Francophone region of Switzerland, where the media group holds a leading position.
Edipresse publishes the three most popular dailies in this region - 'Le Matin', '24 Heures' and 'Tribune de Genève' - with a total weekday circulation of 250,000 copies and an average of 140 pages.
The Sunday circulation of 'Le Matin' alone exceeds 250,000 copies.
Other titles include two local newspapers, 'La Broye' and 'Journal de Morges', plus periodicals.
During the day shift the Lausanne printing plant, which runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, prints diverse supplements, brochures and company magazines.
They include two tabloids, 'Coopzeitung' and 'Migros-Magazin', which have between 80 and 128 pages a piece and a weekly circulation of 550,000-plus.
Edipresse also has a 47 per cent stake in a Geneva daily, Le Temps.
In Portugal it publishes a bi-monthly title, 'Jornal de Letras'.
Its magazine activities embrace all nine countries and cover a broad spectrum, from TV, women's and business publications to special interest titles. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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