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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 105
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2005
85 Printing Units In Single Algerian
Order
Tonic Emballage, the largest printing company in Africa, near Algiers, is to install the longest medium-format press ever installed by KBA, a Rapida 105 with 15 printing, coating and drying towers.
Tonic Emballage, the largest printing company in Africa, near Algiers, is to install the longest medium-format press ever installed by KBA, a Rapida 105 with 15 printing, coating and drying towers The company has reinforced its confidence in KBA technology with one of the largest single orders ever booked by KBA, with 85 printing units and coating towers
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 24 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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From May to October, Tonic Emballage will receive 10 five-colour Rapida 105 presses, each with a coating tower and extended delivery.
A Rapida 105 with six printing units, coating tower, two intermediate drying towers, perfecting unit, a further five printing units, a second coating tower and extended delivery is also on order.
The package is to be rounded off with two more 74 Karat digital offset presses with integrated coating facilities.
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When KBA unveiled a new Rapida 105 at Drupa, a similar press had already been put through its paces for several months at the pharmaceutical centre run by the Rob Leunis and Chapman Group (RLC).
There are already five six-colour Rapida 105 presses (all with coating tower), two five-colour Rapida 74 presses (one with coating and one with perfecting), a six-colour Rapida 162a with coating and two 74 Karat digital offset presses with coating units in production at Tonic Emballage.
That adds up to a total of 62 printing and coating units from KBA.
Abdelghani Djerrar, president of Tonic Emballage, said: "Presses from KBA are my choice to back up a perfectly and fully trained team.
Mature technologies are important to secure a certain exclusiveness in the market." Tonic outputs 300,000 tonnes of printed products each year with a workforce of 3,500 employees currently achieving a turnover of 17 billion Algerian Dinars (180m Euros), contributing to an annual growth rate of 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
Tonic is planning exports to the tune of 35m Euros for 2005.
With the exception of newspapers and magazines, practically every conceivable product is printed at Tonic - recycled card packaging for Disney figures (for which Tonic holds a licence), boxes for washing powder, cartons for pizza, cheese and medicines.
On average, Tonic supplies around 50 per cent of the local requirements.
After recording 10 per cent growth in 2004, Tonic has set its sights on the 15 per cent mark for this year.
"Tunisia and Morocco are tourist destinations whose streams of visitors enable us to enter a variety of market segments, including packaging printing," said Djerrar.
It is part of the Tonic philosophy to remain independent of raw materials supplies.
With investments totalling 40m Euros in wastewater treatment and seawater desalination systems, as well as in a central power generation plant, Tonic Emballage aims to gain new raw materials from previous waste.
The final objective is to operate a pulp factory that will produce paper from 100 per cent recycled materials.
Djerrar is 39 years old and manages the company together with his two younger brothers Okba and Mohamed, operating finishing and converting machines from Muller Martini, recycling machines from Hartmann, guillotines from Rapidex, die-cutters from Bobst and old printing presses from Heidelberg.
The Tonic management was very appreciative that the print instructors sent by KBA hailed from Tunisia.
Djerrar said he is especially pleased that they share a common culture, language and religion with his employees.
The same applies in the case of Naceur Rezgui, director of KBA-Afrique du Nord, which has its offices in Berges du Lac in Tunis.
The Tonic workforce is also to be increased from 3,500 to 5,500 people by the end of the year, and will then grow further to 10,000 by 2006-2007. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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