manroland AG - Slovakia: ROLAND 900 impresses leading packaging printer

Slovakia has two things to be pleased about: firstly, the country looks forward to its first participation in a Football World Cup, the 2010 event. Secondly, Grafobal a.s. in Skalica, at the foot of the White Carpathians, installed a five-color ROLAND 900 with coating module.

Grafobal is one of the leading packaging printing groups in Central and Eastern Europe and has received many awards for outstanding business and printing performance. The group’s printing facility in Skalica specializes in producing packaging made from carton and corrugated board. Also printed here are labels, calendars, posters, advertising materials, and puzzles. Grafobal expected a lot from this new investment and was looking to increase its production capacity in Skalica and ensure on-time delivery to customers. Equipped with among other things the AUPASYS logistics system and printservices products such as TelePresence and the ROLAND InlineInspector, the ROLAND 900 with coating module took care of both these requirements. Besides the ROLAND 900, Grafobal ordered a seven-color ROLAND 700 HiPrint with double coater which is currently being installed in Skalica.

Grafobal has produced packaging in Skalica since 1905. Today the group delivers quality packaging to international customers from its production sites in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Russia.

manroland AG is the world’s second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world’s market leader in web offset. The group with its production facilities in Offenbach, Augsburg and Plauen employs almost 8,700 people and has annual sales of some Euro 1,7 billion with an export share of 80 percent.

Webfed and sheetfed offset presses provide tailor-made solutions for publishing, commercial, and packaging printing – from brochures to newspapers with circulations running into the millions. A worldwide network of about 100 sales and service centers markets manroland’s products as well as process compliant system components and pressroom products.

Web offset presses for newspapers and high-quality commercial printing of brochures, catalogs, magazines, supplements and books are manufactured in the Augsburg facility (founded 1845). They are designed to meet the continually increasing demands on print quality and performance coming from printing and publishing companies all over the world. manroland’s Plauen facility (founded 1896) is renowned for newspaper presses and paper supply systems. The sheetfed press product range built in Offenbach and Mainhausen (founded 1871) comprises system families in small, medium, large and extra-large formats for commercial printing, posters, books and packaging. Some models are available with the revolutionary direct drive system. manroland offers added value with PRINTVALUE.

manroland offers also designing, planning, building, equipping and commissioning sheetfed and web offset printing plants – from prepress through printing right up to finishing. manroland is a provider of customized 24/7 service and (remote) maintenance packages plus integrated services and training measures (printservices). The portfolio includes a certified range of pressroom products (printcom), software products, and workflow management systems (printnet). The group provides consultancy services covering all aspects of investment and building planning, organization, management, systems engineering and process optimization (printadvice).