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News Release from: KBA
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 November 2005
Best Sheetfed Sales Year For KBA UK
KBA UK is reporting its best year for sheetfed press sales with nearly 200 units sold for installation by the end of December.
KBA UK is reporting its best year for sheetfed press sales with nearly 200 units sold for installation by the end of December, with sales from across its product range from B3 up to the new jumbo presses that arrived this year Long Rapida 105 perfectors have been installed at Croxsons, Buxton Press, Pindar, Alito Color, DS Smith Neath, WP Litho and Printhaus, Northampton
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mid-size B2 Rapida 74s have gone in at Jade Press in Leeds, Mastercolour in Tunbridge Wells, ACH of Bournemouth and CPI in Glasgow.
Large format machines are now in action at Bell and Bain in Glasgow, MMP Deeside and over Christmas Clifford Press in Coventry will take possession of a high specification Rapida 162a.
Other large format successes have been DC Thomson,Dundee, SMP Group West Norwood and Walkers of Manchester.
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Records have been broken with Buxton Press adding another Rapida 105/8 to take its KBA pressroom tally up to 50 long perfecting units and the Printhaus Rapida 105 will be the first KBA press in this country with the no-sidelay concept unveiled at Drupa 2004.
Another machine that is said to be ground-breaking is the Clifford Press R162a, a high specification six colours and coat machine offering hybrid inks technology, whilst a more ordinary R105/5 has been installed at WP Litho in Calne and a R105/6, a second KBA press, at Printhaus.
The star projects of the year, however, were the three big installations of giant Rapida 205s at Augustus Martin, Capital Print and Display and Odessa Offset.
When the three London printers are joined by a fourth R205 at NSL in Newcastle next year the point of purchase display market with be dominated by KBA jumbos, said the company.
KBA UK executive sales director, Mark Nixon, said: "The year will certainly have lifted our UK installed base.
We have managed, against strong competition to increase our market share and to post our best ever revenue figures in large format, B1 and B2.
We are now at full strength with our sales team and our service department and we have just added 10 service staff countrywide.
The year 2006 holds some very exciting prospects for KBA." KBA UK managing director, Christian Knapp is also full of confidence for 2006: "I believe our success with the Rapida range will continue next year, whilst the interest being shown in the Genius 52 will translate in to substantial orders.
At Ipex 2006 we will unveil the B2 Performa range, which will allow us to show KBA products to an even wider audience and in a segment where we have not been as strong as in B1. Request free introductory details about products from KBA ...
I think the future is certainly bright for KBA in the UK.".
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