König & Bauer AG - Welcome knowledge transfer in high-growth Asia-Pacific markets

In November last year KBA took to the road for the third time in Malaysia and Indonesia to promote new advances in sheetfed technology. The shows in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta were particularly well received, with printers even coming across from Singapore. Attendance figures were around 50 per cent higher than in previous years.

Participants included the president of the Malaysian Printers’ Association, representatives of the Selangor & Federal Territory Chinese Printing Presses Association and the Printing Institute of Malaysia, and large numbers of KBA users and other print entrepreneurs who are thinking about investing in new kit.

Following the opening speech by Stefan Segger, managing director of KBA Asia-Pacific in Singapore, KBA sheetfed marketing manager Jürgen Veil gave a presentation boldly entitled “It’s time to make money again”, in which he described automation options for printing and finishing processes and used ROI calculations to demonstrate how these would soon be paid for by higher productivity. By popular request KBA is planning to take the roadshow to China in the autumn, continuing what is fast becoming a traditional transfer of knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Koenig & Bauer Group is one of the largest press manufacturers worldwide and has the broadest press range in the industry. The parent company is Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) with facilities in Würzburg, Radebeul, Frankenthal and Trennfeld (all in Germany).

The other core members of the Group are Maschinenfabrik KBA-Mödling AG in Mödling, near Vienna (Austria), KBA-Grafitec s.r.o. in Dobruška (Czech Republic), KBA-Metronic AG in Veitshöchheim, near Würzburg (Germany), KBA-MetalPrint GmbH in Stuttgart (also Germany) and KBA-GIORI S.A. in Lausanne (Switzerland). KBA North America Inc. in Dallas, Texas (USA), is our sales and service subsidiary for the US and Canada. In addition we have sales and service outlets in the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Brazil, Russia, Poland, Australia, China, Malaysia and Singapore, plus a global network of dealers. The core companies in the Group employ some 7,500 people.