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ATLANTA—Marcel Kiessling has taken the helm as president of Heidelberg Americas, based here, which covers the sales regions of the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America. Kiessling is the former head of the Germany/Switzerland market center and president of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Vertrieb Deutschland. He joined the company in 1989. Werner Albrecht has assumed the two roles previously held by Kiessling. Albrecht, who joined the company in 1978, was most recently president of Heidelberg Web Systems in Dover, NH, until its acquisition by Goss International. As part of the restructuring the company announced in late 2003, the worldwide sales organization's original seven market centers were grouped

DOVER, NH--July 14, 2004--Geographics will install the first web press in the United States with Automatic Transfer (AT), a new Heidelberg option that allows job changeovers to be completed without stopping the press. The company reportedly will add the six-unit, 24-page Sunday 2000 in early 2005 as part of an ongoing expansion project at its Atlanta, GA facility. The web press will complement new sheetfed presses, including a Heidelberg Speedmaster 10-color perfector. "The market for high-quality commercial printing is going in the direction of shorter runs with more versioning," explains Geographics Owner and CEO Norvin Hagan. "The combination of gapless technology, Autoplate and Automatic Transfer creates

BY ERIK CAGLE It could be said that Doug Stone, co-founder of Odyssey Press, was a frugal man. He booked his own flights and almost always took the cheaper connecting route, no matter how circuitous. Stone was saving the company money, particularly when he was flying from his company's headquarters in Dover, NH, to Trend Offset Printing in Los Alamitos, CA, the home of his former employer. He was close to Anthony Lienau, one of Trend's founders, and still did consulting work for Lienau. So Stone would fly into Texas, where Trend has a plant, and visit there before continuing to California. Out

NEW YORK—The worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the history of this young country left more than 6,500 people missing and presumed dead, reduced a pair of 110-story skyscraper buildings to an unimaginable pile of twisted metal and human debris, and left many Americans feeling more vulnerable than they had ever thought possible. The multi-pronged terrorist attack of September 11 was unfathomable: four airliner hijackings, two of which resulted in collisions with the World Trade Center towers in New York City and a third that left a large cavity in the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Fortunately, it appears passengers thwarted a fourth kamikaze

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