KBA North America

KBA North America announces that Allpak/Trojan, an award-winning printing and packaging company located in Seattle, installed a 56˝ KBA Rapida 142 six-color plus coater sheetfed press in early 2011. This new KBA press complements an existing KBA Rapida 142 56˝ eight-color sheetfed press with coater and hybrid UV capabilities operating with the KBA Qualitronic II inline sheet inspection system installed in July 2005. “Growth from our existing large-format work had developed to the point where a second press was required,” said Wayne Millage, president of Allpak/Trojan. “After reviewing our product mix, we decided that a six-color plus coater would

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including ACTEGA, OEC Graphics, KBA North America, Sun Chemical and Illinois Tool Works.

Packaging equipment, software and service purchases by U.S. packaging printers, featuring Proteus Packaging and Keller Crescent.

RR Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD) and Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) of Wurzburg, Germany announced an agreement to develop, manufacture, and sell next generation piezoelectric digital inkjet printing solutions to the packaging, securities, commercial, and newspaper segments.

News on suppliers to the package printing industry, including Harper Corporation, Davis-Standard, Tailored Solutions, KBA North America and more.

Packaging equipment installations and purchases by U.S. printing companies, featuring DuPont Packaging Graphics, Epson America, Luminer Converting Group, Valdese Packaging & Label, KBA North America, and Flexo Wash LLC.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including Anderson & Vreeland, Flint Group, Agfa Graphics, Davis-Standard, Heidelberg USA, and Schawk, Inc.

SOLON, Ohio—The new KBA press is currently being built and will be installed at CardPak’s headquarters in Solon, Ohio in mid-November of this year.

DALLAS, Texas—KBA North America is partnering with System Brunner, a global supplier of process control, color control, quality assurance, and standardization, to create a new inline measurement and control system that guarantees optimum color fidelity in sheetfed presses.

DALLAS, TX—KBA North America announced that Hammer Packaging, a package printing company headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., has installed a new KBA Rapida 162 64-inch eight-color sheetfed press plus coater and additional key accessories, such as a roll-to-sheet feeder, KBA Densitronic Professional color control system, and lightweight paper package.