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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Continent press line, Compacta 215
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 October 2006
Coldset-Heatset Press For Middle East
Media Shop
United Printing and Publishing (UPP) in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has signed-up for a KBA Continent press line with coldset and heatset capabilities.
United Printing and Publishing (UPP) in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has signed-up for a KBA Continent press line with coldset and heatset capabilities Following contracts from Dammam (Saudi-Arabia) and Doha (Qatar) this is the third hybrid press order KBA has booked in the Middle East
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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UPP is the printing arm of Emirates Media, one of the region's top media groups.
The 2/1 tower press, which will be delivered at the end of next year, is scheduled to go on-stream in mid-2008 at a new facility outside Abu Dhabi on the expressway to Dubai.
Once the Continent is up and running a 1998-vintage KBA Compacta 213 single-width commercial press, with 12 reelstands and two folders will be overhauled, transferred to the new location and linked up parallel to the Continent to increase production capacity.
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The Compacta's two heatset webs will be diverted via a steel platform to the Continent's superstructure, where they can be assigned freely to the three folders, said KBA.
Together, the two press lines will be able to print 112 broadsheet or 224 tabloid pages, with up to 48 broadsheet or 96 tabloid pages in full-colour (including 16 heatset pages), added the German press manufacturer.
Maximum copy thickness will be 64 broadsheet or 112 tabloid pages.
Up to five copies can be delivered simultaneously from the five folders.
The press order makes provision for a four-tower extension to the Continent to boost colour capacity still further.
UPP will be switching on a new 16pp KBA Compacta 215 commercial press early next year.
When that joins the other two machines, the new printing plant will be one of the biggest in the Middle East, added KBA.
Ahmad Ali M Al-Bloushi, the chief executive officer of Emirates Media, said: "Our satisfaction with the Compacta 213, the excellent service provided by KBA over the years and its professional support at the initial planning stage were key factors in our decision to place the order with KBA and its agency, Giffin Graphics.
On top of this, the Continent scores high on performance and ease of handling, as reference plants we visited in Dammam and elsewhere demonstrated." The KBA Continent for UPP will have a cylinder circumference of 578mm (22.75") and a maximum rated output of 50,000 copies per hour.
Web width will be variable from 635mm (25") to 1,000mm (39.5"), with 760mm (30") the standard.
The press will feature EAE control technology incorporating a print job-scheduling and presetting system, which can also be used for planning production on the two heatset webs off the Compacta 213.
The contract includes a service PC for remote diagnostics and on-line maintenance, automatic ink pumping, colour and cut-off register controls and automatic blanket washing for the two heatset towers.
The 10-tower Continent press will be configured with 16 KBA Pastoline reelstands linked to a KBA Patras M reel-handling system, two thermal air dryers, six insertion decks with reinverting rollers, two folder superstructures with one former each, plus one folder superstructure with three formers and three KBA KF 3B folders.
The folder for heatset webs (up to two webs each from the Continent and the Compacta 213) will be equipped with a length and cross perforator and quarterfold facility. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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