Fifth Rapida Press In 3 Years For Swedish Printer

The fifth KBA Rapida 105 sheetfed offset press in three years to arrive at Alfa Print in Sundbyberg on the outskirts of Stockholm (Sweden) will be delivered.

Alfa Print's latest medium-format acquisition, a representative of the 18,000 sheets per hour (sph) generation of presses, incorporates such automation features as fully automatic plate changing (FAPC) ACR-Control (video register) and automatic ink supplies.

It is also to be integrated in to the Alfa Print's existing Logotronic printshop network.

Managing director of Alfa Print, Lars Adolfsson and his team specialises on printing business products, in particular corporate reports and sales literature.

A second important market is the printing of maps and marine charts and the product portfolio is rounded off by school textbooks and coffee-table books.

The company counts 70 employees and returns an annual turnover of around SKR200 million.

(EUR25 million.) with its three Rapida 105 presses (a further eight-colour version, a five-colour coater and a four-colour perfector) as well as a four-colour Rapida 142.

As Lars Adolfsson explained, Alfa Print is the largest sheetfed offset print company operating from a single location in Sweden.

Lean production and resource management (born out by environmental and FSC certification) are trademarks of the company.

In a quality test conducted amongst 100 Swedish print companies Alfa Print achieved second place, mainly thanks to its modern equipment base, said KBA.

The organisers of the test had provided demanding test files to the participating companies and then evaluated the test prints that were returned.

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