Tempt In-Store Productions, a Quad/Graphics co., will be installing the world’s largest sheetfed press, a KBA Rapida 205 superlarge-format press, at its New Berlin, WI, facility, next year. "This new KBA press will allow Tempt to provide a new level of options for retailers and marketers seeking the broadest range of in-store marketing solutions from a single-source supplier," said Joel Quadracci, Quad/Graphics chairman, president and CEO.
Marshall & Bruce Printing in Nashville, TN, has entered into the large-format arena with the addition of a six-color, 57˝ KBA Rapida 145 press with coater and UV capabilities. The company will use the press to print high-end point-of-purchase and packaging work on a variety of substrates.
Following the introduction of the successful Speedmaster SM 52 and SX 52, Heidelberg has adapted its product portfolio for the new market conditions, thereby ensuring it covers the entire spectrum of relevant applications. As a consequence, production of the Printmaster GTO 52 will be phased out from March 2014.
Standard Printing in Canton, OH, has added a new six-color, 64" KBA Rapida 164 press with coater. The new Rapida 164—its first from KBA—joins four current offset presses.
A new six-color, 40˝ Komori Lithrone G40 will allow PBM Graphics in Durham, NC, to expand its printing capacity, offer shorter turn times, and provide a boost in pressroom capacity and assurance of supply.
Ryobi distributor Graphic Systems North America has booked more than $8.6 million in new press sales in the last 90 days, including four separate eight-up Ryobi 920 series presses with a total of 24 print units. The newest sales and installations are evidence of increasing demand for high-technology offset presses in the United States and Canada—and also represent several important Ryobi “firsts” in both nations.
manroland Sheetfed GmbH has completed legal formalities to incorporate the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Langley Holdings PLC. The manroland deal was the third for Langley in Germany since 2001, with other acquisitions in the United States, France and the United Kingdom during the same period.
Printers from throughout North America attending Graphic Systems North America's open house on October 28-29, in Marietta, GA, will see live demos on a new five-color, eight-up Ryobi 925 press with the latest in LED-UV instant cure technology.
Ryobi has introduced the new Ryobi 928 perfector press with Panasonic LED-UV cure technology. Graphic Systems North America, a North American distributor of Ryobi equipment, will be discussing the new press and the full Ryobi lineup at the opening of its new showroom in metro Atlanta October 28-29.
For the first time in 35 years, Printing Industries of America has honored a 57”/64” sheetfed offset press with a prestigious 2013 InterTech Technology Award. Heidelberg’s Speedmaster XL 145/162 VLF press series was recognized for its twin-gripper delivery system and innovative Remote Fan-Out Control (RFOC).
