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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Rapida 142, Rapida 105 presses, Performa 74 press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2007
Hong Kong Card Producer Buys New KBA
Presses
Glory Moon, one of the leading producers of greeting cards and consumer paper products in Asia, has invested in three new sheetfed offset printing presses of the Rapida and Performa series from KBA.
Glory Moon, one of the leading producers of greeting cards and consumer paper products in Asia, has invested in three new sheetfed offset printing presses of the Rapida and Performa series from KBA The company was founded in Hong Kong in the 1960s and creates over 1,000 new products every year - greetings cards, gift packag-ing and other printed paper wares
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Annual production accounts for some 25,000 tonnes of materials.
The first factory in China was opened in 1989 - Glory Moon Greeting Cards (Panyu), with a production floor space of 90,000 square metres.
Today, there are more than 4,000 employees in Panyu, Guangdong handling the whole Glory Moon product range.
Since 1997, more Rapida presses have joined the printshop's line-up.
In the meantime, five KBA medium-format presses are in use (one Rapida 104 and four Rapida 105 presses with four to six printing units), partly also with additional coating towers.
In 2004, a second factory was founded in Yingde, Guangdong.
The Glory Moon (Yingde) Paper Products facility occupies a total area of 660,000 square metres and is to come in to operation in several stages.
When it reaches its full extent, it will have 10,000 employees.
Production commenced in mid-2006.
Three new KBA sheetfed offset presses in three different format classes have been part of the set-up from the very beginning.
With a Rapida 142 (sheet format 102cm x 142cm), Glory Moon is also venturing in to large-format sheetfed offset for the first time.
The other two presses are a Rapida 105 universal and a Performa 74.
All three are configured with five printing units, coating tower and extended delivery.
Glory Moon managing director C K Au, said: "Given our long standing experience with the Rapida presses in Panyu, KBA was also our first choice when we started to plan the new factory. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
And having three presses in such different formats gives us ideal opportunities to diversify our product range and to spark new growth for our company." He continued: "The Rapidas enable us to raise our print output, to shorten turn-around times and to reduce our waste, which in the end helps to cut production costs.".
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