Former KBA President Dr. Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann Dies
Over 250 patents bear Dr. Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann’s signature, and he played a decisive role in major technological advances. These included the development of a multicolour sheetfed gravure press, the Rembrandt MT III, in the 1950s, a high-speed letterpress machine, the Rotafolio, in the 1960s, the world’s widest newspaper press, the Jumbo-Courier, in the 1970s, and the first Rapida sheetfed offset press, also in the 1970s, whose 15,000sph output was way ahead of its time. In the 1980s and 1990s he actively promoted KBA’s pioneering role in keyless inking systems for multicolour newspaper and sheetfed presses. His outstanding achievements as an engineer were acknowledged in 1960 with the award of a Ring of Honour by the VDI (The Association of German Engineers) and in 2003 with the Leonardo da Vinci Prize by the AIPI (Association of Italian Industrial Engineers).