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News Release from: KBA | Subject: 166pp, 32pp, 64pp Compacta web presses
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2008
KBA Helps Belgian Print Growth With
Compacta Press
KBA is simultaneously helping three Belgian printing companies to expand production capacity with 16-page, 32-page and 64-page Compacta web presses.
A new 16-page Compacta 215 press is to be installed by Nevada-Nimifi Printing in Brussels and follows two other KBA 215s and a 32-page Compacta 418 from KBA Nevada-Nimifi Printing has increased its press fleet to five commercial web presses and three small-format and medium-format litho presses, whilst having invested in new pre-press and post-press equipment
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Alongside an F3 folder with a 2x8-page module the Compacta 215 has a sheeter and a UV coating unit and will mainly be used to print covers on stock weights of 200gsm (74lbs) or above.
A second Compacta 408 press for Grafix Printing in Dessel has been ordered from KBA.
The 32-page short-grain Compacta 408 that will be installed will be the second of this type and the seventh KBA commercial web press at the Dessel production plant, bringing the total number of presses to eight.
The contract is part of an investment package that also includes new litho presses and is aimed at enhancing flexibility and turn-around at the promotional literature printer.
At the same time T'Hooft in Aalter is to expand its operation with a Compacta 818 press.
The 64-page press is its eighth KBA web press at the company and it will join a line-up of 8-page, 16-page and 40-page machines.
Its claimed ability to print long runs of high-pagination copies will increase production capacity.
The variable-format V5 gripper folder on the double-circumference machine is said to be able to handle long-grain and short-grain copies for greater flexibility.
KBA added that the folder is more compact than systems from other manufacturers.
Since the 40-page press is also configured with a V5, T'Hooft is already familiar with its performance.
Print runs at Drukkerij T'Hooft range from 10,000 to five million copies on almost every type of commercial stock.
KBA said that since the turn of the millennium, Belgian printers have signed for a total of 34 new commercial presses, around 36 per cent of them are large-format 48-page to 72-page machines and 38 per cent are 16-page presses.
Out of those total market sales, the company added that it is well represented, with 30 per cent of the commercial press market.
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