KBA Cortina 6/2 in place at DuMont Schauberg, Cologne

Triple wide and yet compact

In the course of a longstanding association with KBA, German plant haulier Scholpp Montage has transported any number of presses. Even so, offloading and placing a new KBA Cortina 6/2 at prominent publishing house M. DuMont Schauberg in Cologne from 20 October to 26 November was no ordinary occurrence.more...

Printing presses: Koenig & Bauer AG

KBA plans short time at web press factories in January

The financial crisis is impacting severely on Germany’s export-driven engineering industry, and KBA is no exception. As the third-quarter figures issued on 14 November revealed, tumbling demand in key export markets caused the volume of new orders for sheetfed presses to fall 15.8% below the equivalent figure for 2007, while orders for web and special presses were 9.1% down on a weak prior year. more...

Italian commercial printer takes second KBA web press

D’Auria to expand with new KBA Compacta 818

Italian commercial printer D’Auria in S. Egidio alla Vibrata is planning to move up into the high-volume league with a 64pp Compacta 818 web press from KBA. Like many others in the sector this family business in the province of Teramo already operates a 16pp KBA Compacta 215, which it brought on stream eighteen months ago.more...

Berlin 2009 – a different take on the German capital

“Berlin 2009” is the title of the new calendar that KBA is currently distributing to customers and business contacts worldwide. In this calendar Thomas Berberich, who has worked for Koenig & Bauer since 1980 and started indulging his passion for photography in a freelance capacity in 2007, conveys the peculiar charm and contrasts of his favourite city in the form of architectural details and serendipitous encounters. more...

180 young explorers take press plant by storm

“Exciting”, “cool“ and “great! Really interesting” were the plaudits when KBA opened its doors to staff children. The invitation was issued in association with the Alliance for the Family, a body promoting family-friendly employment. more...