König & Bauer AG - 30 KBA newspaper customers carry off quality awards

This year 162 newspaper titles from 43 countries worldwide competed for membership of WAN-IFRA’s exclusive International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012. Alongside coldset titles the jury assessed for the first time heatset products printed on standard newsprint and improved stock. Once a month, from January to April, applicants had to submit print samples featuring a prespecified test element.

Two copies of each title from actual production runs were also scrutinised for quality by a panel of experts. At this, the ninth selection trials since the Club was founded, 109 titles fulfilled the rigorous criteria for outstanding quality in colour newspaper production and were granted much coveted membership for two years. The awards ceremony is scheduled for October at the IFRA Expo newspaper trade fair in Hamburg.

Users of compact KBA presses highly placed
36 titles – one third of the winners – were printed on web presses from Koenig & Bauer (KBA) in Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Users of KBA’s compact Commander CT (New York Daily News) and KBA Cortina (Freiburger Druck und Rheinpfalz) were among the topmost rankings.

The award-winning KBA newspaper customers are:

• Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten, Germany (Allgäuer Zeitung);
• Dar Alyaum for Press, Printing and Publishing, Dammam, Saudi-Arabia (Alyaum Newspaper);
• Freiburger Druck, Freiburg, Germany (Badische Zeitung, Der Sonntag);
• National Zeitung und Basler Nachrichten, Basel, Switzerland (Basler Zeitung);
• Büchler-Grafino AG Druckzentrum, Bern, Switzerland (Berner Zeitung);
• DB Corp Ltd., Jaipur and Ahmedabad, India (Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar);
• Diligent Media Corporation Ltd., Bangalore, India (DNA);
• Wegener Nieuwsdruk Twente, Enschede, Netherlands (De Twentsche Courant Tubantia, Hengelo’s Weekblad);
• The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India (Deccan Herald);
• Rheinpfalz Verlag und Druckerei, Oggersheim, Germany (Die Rheinpfalz);
• Göttinger Tageblatt, Göttingen, Germany (Foto Presse);
• FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mörfelden and Potsdam, Germany (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung);
• Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main, Neu-Isenburg, Germany (Frankfurter Rundschau);
• Concentra Uitgeversmaatschappij, Hasselt, Belgium (Gazet van Antwerpen);
• Wegener Nieuwsdruk Gelderland, Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Havenloods Noord);
• Heilbronner Stimme, Heilbronn, Germany (Heilbronner Stimme);
• Ungeheuer + Ulmer, Ludwigsburg, Germany (Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung);
• Verlag Lensing-Wolff, Münster, Germany (Münstersche Zeitung);
• New York Daily News, USA (New York Daily News);
• Nordost-Druck, Neubrandenburg, Germany (Nordkurier);
• OÖN Druckzentrum, Pasching, Austria (Oberösterreichische Nachrichten);
• Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei, Düsseldorf, Germany (Rheinische Post);
• West Australian Newspaper Ltd, Perth, Australia (Seven Days Magazine, The West Australian, West Weekend Magazine);
• Tamedia, Zurich, Switzerland (Tages-Anzeiger);
• Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (The Straits Times);
• Mediacorp Press Ltd in Singapore (Today);
• V-TAB, Västerås, Sweden (VLT);
• Wetzlardruck, Wetzlar, Germany (Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung);
• Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Wilhelmshaven, Germany (Wilhelmshavener Zeitung) and
• Feza Gazetecilik, Istanbul, Turkey (Zaman).

KBA congratulates its customers and all the other winners on this outstanding achievement.

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.