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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 74, Compacta 215, Compacta 618, Comet
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 May 2006
KBA Demonstrates Presses At Brazilian
Show
KBA will be introducing a KBA Rapida 74 B2 press from the new 18,000 generation of printing presses on the KBA-Brasil stand in hall B, stand C60 in Sao Paulo (Brazil).
KBA will be introducing a KBA Rapida 74 B2 press from the new 18,000 generation of printing presses on the KBA-Brasil stand in hall B, stand C60 in Sao Paulo (Brazil) At the show, which runs from May 31 to June 6, KBA will demonstrate its Rapida 74 press
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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With double-size impression and transfer cylinders, the Rapida 74 is claimed to be one of the most productive and flexible sheetfed offset presses on the world market in the 52cm x 74cm format.
Their spectrum of uses is claimed to range from paper printing and carton printing through to production with microflute and plastic.
The B2-Rapida, eco-certified, comes with in-line finishing (hybrid processes, twin coating, UV, perforating, numbering and corona tower for plastic films) and as a perfecting press with up to 12 printing units.
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The five-colour machine with coating tower and delivery extension that will be shown at Sao Paulo is equipped with nonstop devices on the feeder and delivery unit and a package for carton printing.
KBA said that Brazil is a classic half-format and medium-format market in sheetfed offset printing.
Over the next few weeks, for example, Grafica Adonis in Americana (a province of Sao Paulo) will receive a five-colour Rapida 74 with coating tower and delivery extension.
Nitoli in Sao Paulo has a similar machine to the carton version.
Whilst Nitoli is largely involved in the packaging area, Grafica Adonis produces commercial work, labels and children's books for a directly affiliated publishing house.
Both companies are already working with various versions of half-format Rapidas from KBA.
KBA added that it is also having success with its commercial web offset presses on the Latin American market.
During the last few years, seven commercial web presses were sold to Brazil.
Brazilian printshops were particularly interested in the 16-page Compacta 215.
However, the 48-page Compacta 618 web offset press installed in Cajamar, Sao Paulo, in 2002 will also be joined by a sister press of the same design before the end of this year.
The Escala publishing house, founded in 1992 with the affiliated Oceano printshop, is now one of the largest publishing houses in Brazil, producing more than 200 journal titles a month.
Apart from the soon to be two KBA double-circumference presses, the machine fleet at Oceano includes three KBA Compacta 215 commercial web offset presses and two Rapida 105 sheetfed offset presses.
For newspaper or semi-commercial printing, KBA also offers the Comet, an extremely interesting press for the Brazilian market.
A series of Comet web offset presses in different configurations are already in production in North America and Costa Rica.
The company said that the strong growth in this market is being met by the continual expansion of service capacities for KBA web presses in Brazil, with the provision of technicians from Germany, for example. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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