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WÜRZBURG, GERMANY—Nov. 15, 2011—While the third quarter saw demand in the press engineering sector slow, German press vendor Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) profited from a strong presence in niche markets such as security printing, metal decorating and industrial coding, where demand is robust. In the summer quarter, the group booked new orders worth €472.8m, the highest level since the record year of 2006. The order intake for the nine months to October was up 15.4 percent at €1,155.7 million (2010: €1,001.2m). The order backlog passed the €800 million mark for the first time since summer 2008, totalling €810.8m.

August marks the 150th anniversary of German press manufacturer KBA’s Frankenthal production plant. The citizens of Frankenthal – and gravure printers the world over – still often refer to the company as Albert, even though this name was dropped in 1995. Common roots in Oberzell Founder Andreas Albert qualified as a master craftsman under Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer – the inventors of the steam-powered cylinder printing press and founders of the world’s oldest press manufacturer –

In his statement to shareholders, KBA president and CEO Helge Hansen looked ahead with confidence and optimism at the well attended AGM at the Vogel Convention Center (VCC) in Würzburg.Würzburg. At the 86th Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) annual general meeting at the Vogel Convention Center in Würzburg, on Thursday 16 June, president and CEO Helge Hansen reported a substantial increase

RR Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD) and Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) of Wurzburg, Germany announced an agreement to develop, manufacture, and sell next generation piezoelectric digital inkjet printing solutions to the packaging, securities, commercial, and newspaper segments.

WURZBURG, Germany—Within the framework of a print test for a German Internet printer, a five-color version of a Rapida 75 press with coater and extended delivery took just 55 minutes to print seven 300-sheet jobs at the KBA Customer Center in Radebeul in March.

Alongside production workers the measures will affect all departments not directly engaged in market development and customer support. Having just completed a capacity adjustment in the summer that involved several hundred layoffs at its web press production plants, KBA is unwilling to lose more staff who will be difficult to replace when the economy picks up again.