New-generation half-format press destined for the Emirates

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. more...

World makeready champion brings new dimension to print in
Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Gramedia gears up with two KBA Rapida 106 presses

Between 2001 and 2007 Indonesia’s PT Gramedia Printing Group installed four four-colour KBA presses: two medium-format Rapida 105 universals, one Rapida 105 and one half-size Rapida 74. Now this fast-growing enterprise, the market leader in Indonesia, has topped this by placing an order with KBA Asia-Pacific for two eight-colour perfector versions of the Rapida 106 exhibited at Drupa.more...

New appointments

Wolfram Zehnle heads KBA customer showroom in Radebeul

Wolfram Zehnle (43) has been appointed head of KBA’s sheetfed customer showroom and demonstration centre in Radebeul, near Dresden, responsible for all activities associated with the preparation and implementation of press demonstrations for existing and prospective customers. In the new position, which he took up in June, Zehnle reports directly to head of division Werner Seidel.more...

Audacious decision pays off

Notwithstanding the draconian import taxes China has imposed on medium-format sheetfed presses since late 2005, last year Yiyao Printing Co. Ltd. in the northern seaport of Tianjin placed an order for a Rapida 105 universal from KBA. more...

Premiere of large-format four over four in China

KBA's giant Rapida 4/4 perfector presses, already popular in Europe and North America, celebrated their Asian premiere in early May with an open house at China Translation & Printing Services Ltd (CTPS) in Dongguan, southern China. Founded in Hong Kong back in 1964, within two years CTPS had evolved into a full-service print provider much sought after by book publishers the world over.more...