KBA takes big orders at China Print

Koenig & Bauer (KBA) took a number of orders at the recent China Print tradeshow, including one for the first Rapida 145 in China.

 

On the second day of China Print 2013 in Beijing, KBA handed the Rapida 145 showcased over to Ningbo Beike Packaging.

 

It will join existing presses from other German and Japanese suppliers at the printer. The highly-automated Rapida 145 will mainly be used for printing packaging and display products, and will strongly support the company‘s growth strategy.

 

Founded in 1998, Ningbo Beike Packaging is based in the Zhejiang Province in eastern China. The company focuses on color package printing for the food industry and on paper storage racks used in supermarkets.

 

The company owns three manroland presses and one Mitsubishi press.

 

Wu Jie, general manager of Ningbo Beike, said: ‘We did extensive research before purchasing this press.

 

‘The Rapida 145 press has the fastest printing speed in its format class on the market. We are also impressed by its low energy consumption, environmentally-friendly functions and the wide range of substrates it can handle.

 

‘This press will help us to improve the quality of our products and competiveness. With the Rapida 145 we target to increase our sales volume by 50 million Yuan (approx. US$8 million) annually.’

 

He added: ‘This is the first time that we will cooperate with KBA, but will be definitely not the last time. We are honoured to be the first Chinese user of the Rapida 145 press, which meets our production needs in terms of speed, efficiency, quality and energy saving.’

 

Weihai Color Printing Packaging Paper Industry in Qingdao, Shandong province, has also become a new KBA customer with an order of a five-color Rapida 145 press with coater, while Tangshan Sanli in Tangshan, also a packaging printer, decided on a Rapida 145 four-color press.

 

Taiwanese package printer Chen Yi Paper also signed up with KBA at China Print, placing an order for six presses; KBA’s biggest single deal at the show and one of the biggest deals ever in the Taiwanese sheet-fed market.

 

The order included two Rapida 164 six-color large-format presses with coaters, a five- and a six-color Rapida 106, both with coater, and a five- and six-color Rapida 105, also with coaters.

 

Three of the six presses will be shipped in the third quarter 2013 and installed in the existing factory in Taipei. The other three presses will be installed in 2014 in a new plant in Kaohsiung in the south of the Taiwanese island.

 

Pictured (from left): Walter Zehner from KBA Greater China; Jürgen Veil from KBA; Ralf Sammeck from KBA; Steve Chung, general manager Chen Yi Paper; Dietmar Heyduck from KBA; Kevin Chung from Chen Yi Paper; and Akio Pong from KBA agency Shining Graphics in Taiwan

 

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