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News Release from: MAN Roland GB
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2008
MAN Roland Leads Print Industry In
Patents League
MAN Roland has claimed to be the only press manufacturer to represent the printing industry in the top 20 most active patent applicants in Germany.
Whilst the automotive and engineering industries led the way for the most patent applications in the country during last year, MAN Roland flew printing's banner with 210 published patent applications published by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in 2007 The printing press manufacturer said it has repeatedly been one of the top 20 amongst the 50 most active patent applicants in Germany, ahead of its competitors in the printing industry
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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MAN Roland said that a typical example of its development programme and patents applications is its commercial web and newspaper offset APL system for automatic plate change, with robot technology being used for it in newspaper printing - a claimed first in printing.
Another product, the sheetfed Roland 700 Directdrive press won two technology awards in 2007 - the Intertech Technology Award of the American PIA/GATF and the Innovation Award of the German printing industry.
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