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Sheetfed Offset | Niche markets
tion methods. FSC certification has
already been completed, the compressors
have been connected to
the heating circuit and now provide
hot water in summer via heat exchangers.
Terminic managing director Wolfgang Rolla
du Rosey checking one of the trimmed
calendars for which the new Rapida 106
(in the background) mainly prints the
backing boards
Grupo Nación: KBA showcase in Central America
Rapidas power along in Comet’s wake
For Grupo Nación in San José, 20 November
2008 was a day to remember.
Eagerly watched by an audience of
customers and suppliers, president
Manuel Jiménez had the pleasure of inaugurating
three new Rapida 105 fivecolour
presses simultaneously. It was
also the day on which Costa Rica’s leading
print provider officially completed
the transition to KBA for all its sheetfed
technology, following a similar move in
web with the start-up of a Comet press
in 2004.
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Fully automated
calendar production
Twice as many staff are engaged in
finishing as in the press hall, and
they include electromechanical engineers
and bicycle mechanics. This
is because all the machinery used in
calendar processing was specifically
engineered for terminic’s product
range and manufactured as a oneoff
item. All the production sequences
following cutting, collating
and glue-binding are handled automatically
by a single machine: these
include groove-routing the backing
boards, applying the calendar
Typical calendar production sequence
• Print date sections • Print backing boards
• Cut into piles of 12 • Laminate onto corrugated (optional)
• Collate • Film laminate (optional)
• Glue-bind
• Groove and trim
• Glue
• Die-cut date window and attach
• Fold
• Pack
Grey, black and red – the dominant colours
in the calendar blocks were adopted for the
interior design of the offices
blocks, die-stamping and applying
the date windows, folding the finished
calendars and packing them
in corrugated sleeves. All at a speed
of 1,800 cycles per hour. Maintaining
and setting such complex
machinery demands an intimate
knowledge of the mechanical workings
involved.
Around 98 per cent of terminic’s
workload is handled inhouse,
with the application of a
high-gloss film on luxury title images
being the only task outsourced.
The number of calendars
produced has climbed steadily since
the first post-war products came off
the presses in 1950. Prior to shipment
throughout the world the calendars
are gently enveloped in the
enticing aroma of coffee emanating
from the nearby roasting plant –
which, of course, is also a regular
customer, in this instance for terminic’s
4-months-to-view calendars.
Martin Dänhardt
martin.daenhardt@kba.com
From the left: Grupo Nación’s executive vice-president for production Mario Hernández with Jürgen Kibler of KBA agency Gevisa Artes Gráficas
and Ronald Rojas, managing director of Grupo Nación’s print operation, at one of the three new five-colour Rapida 105s