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50 Report 36 | 2010
KBA and TPH enter strategic sales alliance
In September last year KBA and
The Printers House (TPH) in
New Delhi, India, entered a strategic
alliance to expand their businesses
worldwide. TPH now
promotes KBA’s high-performance
newspaper and commercial web
presses on the Indian sub continent
and in certain threshold countries,
while KBA’s global sales and service
network promotes TPH’s 2/1 Orient
web presses in the rest of the
world. The alliance – the biggest
of its kind in the newspaper industry
– allows both partners to cater
to any requirement ranging from
16,000iph to 95,000iph web offset
presses.
TPH is an industry leader in
web offset presses with thousands
of printing units installed worldwide.
The Orient range includes
offset presses with speeds of
16,000iph, 30,000iph, 36,000iph
and 50,000iph. The printing elements
include mono units with integral
reelstands, stacking units,
ARC with stack, three-colour satellites,
four-high towers, a tucker
folder and jaw type folder including
MSO Cleland, Belfast: 40 per cent productivity gain with Rapida 106
Anew Rapida 106 at MSO Cleland
has recorded a 40% increase
in productivity for the
Belfast-based major B1 (41in) packaging
print house. The eight-colour
UV coater version was chosen in addition
to the two existing Heidelberg
presses as part of an ongoing
strategy to increase capacity and
competitiveness in the high-pressure
packaging market.
CEO Dominic Walsh says: “Our
key focus was to improve our performance
and the Rapida has certainly
achieved that. In the current
economic climate of uncertainty
with ever decreasing run lengths
and shortening lead times we can
now deliver superior quality across
a broad mix of output, so dovetailing
our capacity to our customers’
needs. Price and quality are a given
in the packaging market but our dy-
Soon after entering the sales alliance TPH made a joint appearance
with KBA at Ifra Expo in Vienna
namic flexibility is definitely enhanced
with the installation of this
KBA press. Improved productivity
and resulting increased capacity
means we are well positioned for
future growth, especially in the
very demanding luxury packaging
sector where the superior print
quality achieved with the KBA is a
real bonus.”
Three different jobs of 4,500
sheets, 6,000 sheets and 90,700
sheets were run on the press and it
achieved almost 40% increased productivity
on UV packaging material
compared to the existing press.
The 18,000sph Rapida, now
running in a 24-hour shift pattern,
was installed on a 450mm (17.7in)
plinth to maximise pile heights. Au-
1:2:2 folder. Outside India, TPH
presses can be found in China, Russia
and the Middle East.
One of the biggest press manufacturers
in the world, KBA is considered
an engine of innovation in
the newspaper and semi-commercial
sectors. Focussing on kit for
medium to high performance levels,
KBA offers newspaper printers
a complete range of presses in all
the current configurations. TPH’s
Orient presses expand this portfolio
into the budget-priced categories.
Mon Mohan Kohli, director of
TPH, said: “KBA’s excellence, combined
with world class price competitive
machines from TPH, will
open new vistas in the web offset
printing industry globally.”
Christoph Müller, KBA executive
vice-president for web press
sales, said: “TPH with its brand
name Orient is a highly respected
company in many growth regions
worldwide. The tie-up between us
will complement our product range
and further enhance our standing in
the global market.”
A new Rapida 106 at Belfast-based packaging
printer MSO Cleland has delivered substantial
gains in terms of productivity, quality and
flexibility
tomated nonstop pallet-to-pallet
changeovers at both the feeder and
delivery deliver further efficiencies.
Among the other headline features
are the automated coating unit allowing
perfect registration on the
first sheet. There is also the quality
control aid DensiTronic Professional
that scans the sheets at a resolution
of 330dpi and compares them with
the original PDF to identify even
minimal deviations and automatically
record them in the quality log;
and KBA WashTronic, which strips
the ink on the last eight to ten
sheets reducing the amount of ink
debris on the blankets at wash-up
and helping to speed up makereadies.