KBA Releases Positive Figures for the First Half-Year

KBA group sales rose by 15.9 percent to €590.5m (2011: €509.7m). In the web and special press division, deliveries of security, newspaper and commercial presses, plus coding and marking systems for various branches of industry contributed to a 38.2 percent leap in sales to €347.5m (2011: €251.5m). However, sales in the sheetfed offset division in the six months to July came to €243m, behind the target for 2012 and last year’s figure of €258.2m. The positive impact of drupa will become more apparent in the second half of the year.