Following a large order of spare parts, the Southern African printing specialist Printing & Publishing Company Botswana (PPCB) opted for a long-term service contract with manroland Goss. Regular and preventive maintenance will significantly reduce the risk of future downtimes. Adding to that, a special volume for spare parts orders for each contract year is included within the Service Level Agreement. The reliability and expertise for manroland and Goss presses are industry leading and available in all parts of the world.

Benefits for packaging printing customers: high level of automation, flexibility, productivity, versatility, and energy efficiency

Customer-centric approach: press specially adapted to WestRock’s needs
Sustainability: folding carton printing seen as a growth segment
A world record – the longest sheetfed press ever produced, a Speedmaster XL 106 from HEIDELBERG with 20 printing units and a length of 42 meters, is destined for a Polish site of the U.S. packaging manufacturer WestRock.

New machine meets just-in-time market demands for more short-run agility

Designed and built in Germany using Italian market expertise, XD Pro enhances productivity
Teamwork links extensive market experience and German engineering excellence
Koenig & Bauer XD Pro: Taking performance reliability, process consistency and efficiency to new levels

Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions and BIRKAN signing a strategic partnership

To mark the launch of the new partnership the new “MasterSECURE“ printing blanket is introduced
In line with the mission of supporting its customers as a full-service provider in all matters relating to the production of banknotes and high-security printing products, Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions is signing a strategic partnership with BIRKAN GmbH to expand its portfolio in the area of consumables and strengthen the ambition of a unique printing ecosystem for the special needs of high-security printers.

Two Rapida 105 presses with equipment for mixed UV operation
Certification for the food and pharmaceuticals branches
Award-winning products
The offset division of India’s Printmann Group has invested in new sheetfed offset technology from Koenig & Bauer. Based in Navi Mumbai, the biggest planned city in the world, the company supplies the full spectrum of labels and packaging, for example for pharmaceutical products and for the FMCG and food industries. It was founded in 1987.

Koenig & Bauer involved in testing of low-migration, mineral oil-free inks from the MGA series made by hubergroup

Tests performed on a 16-page C217 commercial web press at B&K Offsetdruck in Ottersweier
Low-migration, mineral oil-free inks permit heatset printers to address the market for packaging printing
MGA inks can also be used for the current product range at B&K
Ministerial decree prohibits the use of mineral oil-based printing inks in France from 2025
MGA inks achieve convincing results on various papers

Future-oriented, high-performance technology
Automation solutions for more sustainability
Digital printshop workflow
Jordi AG, one of pioneers of digitalisation and sustainability in the print industry, has been nurturing its core expertise in print since 1897. The decision to continue using technology from Koenig & Bauer underlines the company’s principal objective.

New machine meets just-in-time market demands for more short-run agility

Designed and built in Germany using Italian market expertise, XD Pro enhances productivity
Teamwork links extensive market experience and German engineering excellence
Combining almost 50 years’ flexo printing market experience from Italy with world-acclaimed engineering from Germany, Koenig & Bauer has officially unveiled its XD Pro CI Flexo next generation press that takes performance reliability, process consistency and efficiency to new levels of productivity.

Originally starting life as a label converting house in 1993, the company has expanded into Inline Flexo Cartons with Edale presses at its production facility in Tavistock. Nick Coombes reports from Devon on behalf of Brunton Business Publications Ltd.
Set in the heart of the UK’s beautiful ‘west country’, better known for its holiday locations and adventures, Tamar Packaging Solutions is a specialist BRC-accredited manufacturer of direct food contact cartons, with a special eye for detail.

High quality, innovation, speed of service and customer care are the pillars of the corporate strategy that has accompanied Graphicscalve's journey for over 40 years. The latest investment, to continue the development and growth of the business, is a Komori System 38 rotary press.

Graphicscalve was born in the late 70s as an artisan typography from an entrepreneurial idea of the brothers Ezio and Walter Ferrari, driven by an authentic passion for printing and an unmistakable charisma.

With great pleasure, we’ve embarked on an exciting journey to explore Komori’s vision at the occasion of the celebration of our 100th anniversary. We’ve shared insights of the trends and challenges in the printing industry for both commercial and packaging, and presented Komori's latest solutions and technologies that support the printers to address them by enhancing their productivity and quality and automation.

Development of new products for further automatisation of the cash circulation

Connection of physical banknotes and digital ecosystems
Optimization of process integrity and data capture
On the 8th of June 2023, Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions S.A. based in Switzerland and friSense Technologies Limited based in the UK have signed a Joint Development agreement. Both companies will explore together developing new products for further automatisation of the cash circulation.