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News Release from: KBA | Subject: 72pp Compacta 818 press, variable-format V5 folder
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2007
72pp KBA Press Advances Polestar Hungary
Progress
One of KBA's 72pp Compacta 818 presses with a variable-format V5 folder has been ordered to help advance the progress of Polestar Group's Budapest (Hungary) Revai Nyomda plant.
The press is scheduled to be commissioned over the summer 2008 and it will feature a Patras A automatic reel-handling system and it will have a Pastomat RC reelstand, a free-standing in-feed unit, four printing units with semi-automatic plate change, a Vits thermal air dryer and a superstructure for up to five ribbons KBA claimed that the press will also have a unique feature with the company's V5 variable-format folder for the delivery of short-grain, or long-grain copies
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Revai Nyomda has a long-standing association with KBA, said the German press manufacturer.
In 1997 it was amongst the first to install a 16-page Compacta 215, claimed to have been the first shaftless commercial web press on the international market.
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In 2002 production capacity in Budapest was expanded with the first 48-page press in Hungary, a Compacta 618.
Today the press fleet comprises one 48-page, three 16-page and three 32-page presses.
Barry Hibbert, Polestar Group's chief executive officer, commented: "Our Hungarian operation has been a huge success for many years now and we are aiming to maintain this level of performance with proven technology from KBA, whose variable-format folder will deliver a capability that is unique in the marketplace." Laszlo Lazar, the managing director of Revai Nyomda, added: "We have enormous faith in KBA's competence, so the company was the obvious choice for helping to take taking our business forward.
With the new Compacta 818, we can expand our lead in the Hungarian market and move up in to the European league." KBA executive vice-president Christoph Muller, said: "I have always considered Revai one of Hungary's print pioneers and am delighted that the company chose KBA for the next stage in itsdevelopment.
The Compacta 818, with variable-format V5 folder, will help it maintain its competitive edge in the commercial market." Revai Nyomda can trace its origins to a bookshop established by the Revai brothers in 1869.
In 1991 Watmoughs Holdings in the UK acquired a majority shareholding of the Hungarian business and promoted growth that made Revai the biggest commercial printer in the country.
Following the merger of the British Printing Company (BPC) and Watmoughs to form Polestar, Revai Nyomda became part of one of the enlarged group. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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