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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Commander
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 August 2006
KBA Beats Goss And Wifag To Broughton
Press Deal
Broughton Printers, a fully owned printing subsidiary of Express Newspapers and the Northern Shell Group of Companies Group, is installing a 80,000 copies per hour (cph) KBA Commander.
Broughton Printers, a fully owned printing subsidiary of Express Newspapers and the Northern Shell Group of Companies Group, is installing a 80,000 copies per hour (cph) KBA Commander KBA said it fought off bids from Goss and Wifag for the contract
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 23 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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KBA said that the new line will give Broughton Printers Limited (BPL) 100 per cent colour and fast output speeds.
The Commander will complement the continued running of the existing Goss lines at BPL and will be used to print the group company's publication, the Daily Star.
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The 'Kansas City Star', a title owned by US media group Knight Ridder, is about to take delivery of a KBA multi-unit Commander press line with a total of 36 four-high towers.
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The KBA team included executive vice president for web press sales, Christoph Muller, vice president of sales, Jochen Schwab, area sales manager Ingo Van Koll and KBA's UK sales manager for newspaper presses, Roger Nicholls.
The company said that its team overcame strong competition to win the contract.
Negotiations with Express Newswpapers involved joint managing director, Martin Ellice, Broughton Printers' chief executive David Broadhurst and consultant Tony Britton.
Christian Knapp said: "We are delighted to continue our current newspaper press successes in the UK and Ireland with an order from this important national group." Broughton Press's David Broadhurst commented : "KBA is providing BPL with a solution to our needs for future improvement so that we may provide the best quality and service to our customers going forward.
We are very pleased to be working with KBA on this important project." Founded in 1988, Broughton Printers employs 215 staff and has a current turnover of GBP26 million.
Printing a total of over 11 million copies a week, the company prints the northern editions of the Daily Express, Daily Star and Daily Sport for Express Newspapers and also produces many Johnston Press North West titles.
Operating at newspaper production plants worldwide, KBA said its Commander press is a high volume and high pagination machine capable of providing bottom-line savings in capital investment and manning.
Also in the KBA newspaper press stable are the Comet, Colora, Continent and the new Cortina.
The Commander is produced at KBA's Wurzburg plant in Germany. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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