RAPIDA
Starting up in the global meltdown is no carnival joke
Defying the financial meltdown, early last December Peter Knappertsbusch, a native of Cologne, joined forces with Ibrahim Tastan and Martin Ronneberger to launch Printion – the fifth print provider in Radebeul (near Dresden) – with a brand-new Rapida 75 from KBA. Keying the name Printion into a search engine will turn up virtually nothing but the address: it takes a lot more clicks to find the corporate website (www.karnevalsdruckerei.de) with details of its portfolio.
Accelerating growth with Rapida 105 universal and Performa 74
The capital Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru on the border with Singapore, and Penang in the north of the country are the three most important economic and industrial centres in Malaysia. They are similarly the hubs of activity in the printing industry.
Rapida 105 and Performa 66 earmarked for Casablanca
Printers from Casablanca (Morocco) have simultaneously signed contracts on the KBA stand for two sheetfed presses. A Rapida 105 five-colour coater press with extended delivery and carton capability will ship in August to Litho Typo. Although owner Abdelaziz Iraqui has been in negotiations with KBA for some time now, the award of the contract at Drupa came as something of a surprise for the competent sales team. Litho Typo, which is primarily a commercial operation, also prints lightweight packaging, eg for the pharmaceutical industry. The Rapida 105, with its ability to print a broad range of substrates, will signally enhance the company’s production flexibility.
Paris in the summer for Rapida 75
Printing plants are not the only deployers of presses: training colleges use them as well. The Lycée Professionnel de la Communication et des Industries Graphiques “Notre Famille” in Osny, north of Paris, urgently needed a four-colour press in addition to its existing two-colour one.
FGP Studio Olomouc prints alcohol free on KBA printing presses
The FGP Studio in Olomouc is one of the most important partners of KBA-Grafitec in the Czech Republic. They have been favouring KBA printing presses from Dobruška on a long term basis. This year, the FGP Studio printshop has completely eliminated the use of isopropyl alcohol from their production process.
Asiatic Printing Press orders KBA Rapida 75
Asiatic Printing Press is a full-service print provider based in Ajman, on the outskirts of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Established in 1993, it prints a broad spectrum of products with the main focus on commercials, from sophisticated business reports to brochures and magazines, posters, postcards and greetings cards. Half- and medium-format KBA presses have operated for many years now alongside presses from other manufacturers. The most recent addition from KBA was a Rapida 105 universal five-colour coater press delivered in 2006.
Great stride made by the Kertzyn printshop
Kengraf Kertzyn is a graphic art and publishing company, producing leaflets, catalogues, posters, calendars and magazines. For many years now, a substantial part of the production has been printed on presses from the Czech Republic. Their good experience with these presses instigated the owner of the printshop to purchase another Dobruška product – the KBA Rapida 75.
