Koenig & Bauer AG Financial Statements For 2011

Trademark innovation
Whilst implementing rigorous cost-cutting initiatives, KBA has not economised at the expense of innovation, and the proportion of R&D to total group sales was again around 5 percent. According to the Patent Scorecard™ for Heavy Industrial Equipment, published in the Wall Street Journal in January this year, KBA has moved up from 21st to 11th position among the top 50 international players, ahead of all other major German press manufacturers. As an acknowledged driver of technological advances the group will be launching an array of new products and processes at the Drupa trade fair in May, among them a web-fed inkjet press for the high-growth digital print market.