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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Commander 6/2 press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 June 2005
French Newspaper House Orders Six-Wide
Commander
The French newspaper La Provence, owned by the Hachette Group, will be printed on a six-wide Commander 6/2 press line from Koenig and Bauer from the latter part of 2006.
The French newspaper La Provence, owned by the Hachette Group, will be printed on a six-wide Commander 6/2 press line from Koenig and Bauer from the latter part of 2006 The ordered press consisting of 10 printing towers, 10 reel stands and two jaw folders displaces an older press of another make and will also be used to print other publications
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Installation teams from KBA and Scholpp Montage have been busy in Marseilles (France) since March supervising the erection and commissioning of a new KBA Commander 6/2 press.
The scope of delivery for the six-plate-wide press in Berliner format, which is engineered for a maximum web width of 1,890mm and a claimed production speed of 90,000 copies per hour (in double production) includes 10 KBA Pastomat RC reelstands for reels of maximum 1,500mm in diameter and automatic reel loading and stub extraction with KBA Patras A.
The 10 printing towers have nine-cylinder satellites to output 24 broadsheet pages with four colours on both sides and there are 80 printing couples with film inking units, spray damping units, minigap technology on the blanket cylinders, straight-across cylinder gap, pneumatic quick-action lock-up on the plate cylinders as well as automatic roller locks.
There are 11 double turner decks, two folder superstructures, each with three formers positioned side by side, two KF 5 jaw folders with a 2:5:5 cylinder system and a modern control console technology with the production planning and pre-setting system Print from EAE.
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La Provence SA operates in the regional sector and publishes the newspaper of same name with a daily circulation of over 200,000 copies in 12 local issues.
The regional newspaper emanated from the merger between Le Provencal and Le Meridional in 1997 and reaches more than 750,000 readers in the French departements of Bouches-du-Rhone, Vaucluse and Alpes de Haute Provence.
The newspaper house, which has a turnover of 100m Euros and a workforce of 700, also publishes and prints the free newspaper Marseille Plus (circulation 80,000) and the weeklies Marseille l'Hebdo (circulation 15,000) and Vaucluse l'Hebdo (circulation 5,000).
In addition to numerous newspaper inserts, the company also prints the Corse-Matin.
La Provence has been owned by Hachette Filipacchi Medias (HFM) since 1987, which in turn is part of the French high-tech and media group Lagardere.
In addition to having a stake in EADS, Lagardere operates in the market for books, press matter, distribution and audio-visual media.
HFM is Lagardere Media's business sector responsible for magazines and newspapers.
With 245 magazine titles in 36 countries, total circulation of over one billion copies and turnover of approx.
2.2 billion Euros, it is world market leader, said KBA.
Exports account for 54 per cent of business.
Besides La Provence, French regional newspaper operations under the HFM umbrella include the newspaper house of Nice Matin in Nice. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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