Koenig & Bauer
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- Claus Bolza -Schünemann, CEO
- Heinz -Joachim new citizens, Chairman
The Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA; earlier Koenig & Bauer - Albert) is a manufacturer of printing presses based in Würzburg. The company claims to be the oldest press manufacturer in the world and a world leader in printing in sheetfed offset printing large format, in packaging, newspaper and metal decorating and about 90% of world market share leader in banknote printing. With the KBA Rapida 205, the company is building the world 's largest sheetfed offset press. The company is listed on the SDAX.
Products (Selection )
The product portfolio of the company include printing machines for sheet-fed offset printing presses, for example, large-format sheetfed offset, printing bank notes and securities printing, newspaper printing, commercial printing and metal decorating. Web offset printing machines ( mainly newsprint ), sheetfed offset printing machines (eg posters and packaging ), security printing machines (steel engraving ) including hologram presses; KBA is the world leader in printing money.
Locations
In Würzburg newspaper rotary and directory printing machines are manufactured. The foundry manufactures cylinder racks and also for other works. In the work there are 2000 employees. In Trennfeld newspaper rotary and commercial presses are manufactured, further superstructures, also found here in part, the pre-assembly of the pressure cylinder instead. Mid-2007, worked here 300 employees. In autumn 2007, it was announced that publication and decorative gravure printing machine segment is to be sold to the previous competitor " Officine Meccaniche Giovanni Cerutti ". In Frankenthal folding units and commercial offset presses are manufactured. There are 700 employees working.
Since 1898, printing presses in Radebeul near Dresden, then known as Dresdner Schnellpressen factory and Radebeuler Maschinenfabrik August Köbig built. The plant is responsible for sheetfed presses. A large part of the turnover is with the RAPIDA machine series achieved (2010: 1 375 employees).
Maschinenfabrik KBA Mödling AG is specialized in the production of security presses. According to own statements, 90 % of all banknotes are produced worldwide on their presses. In two locations, Maria Grossenzersdorf Mödling and Ternitz in Southern Lower Austria about 700 people are employed in 2013. Great emphasis is placed on training. So about 60 apprentices are employed in 2006, which are also housed partly in their own Lehrlingsheim. In Ternitz a new plant for chrome plating of printing cylinders was built in 1997. Departments of the bow machine program in 2014 moved from Mödling in other parts of the group.
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History in Austria
In 1848 founded Koenig's nephew Heinrich solver a machine factory in Vienna. Over the decades, the company changed its name several times, among other things, it said 1890-1908 L.Kaiser ' s sons. During this time the company moved to the municipal boundary between Mödling and Maria Grossenzersdorf. From the year 1927, the company name of the company Schnellpressenfabrik Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft Mödling.
The work was German during World War II property. So it fell under Soviet occupation in the administration of the USIA enterprises. Only in 1955 it was privatized again under the leadership of then CEO Alfred Schischek. His son Wolfgang Schischek became his successor. In 1967, the Austrian branch got the National Award and has since been thus empowered to lead the federal coat of arms in the business. In 1962, the entire production of simultaneous security presses from Würzburg was acquired in Mödling and continually evolving.
Works to 2004
- Berlin plant, KBA -Berlin GmbH in Berlin- hook field. Here all roll changer, feed mills and chill roller stand were made last. The factory employed about 120 staff
- Work Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate.
History
On August 9, 1817, a farmer's son and trained printer Johann Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and Andreas Friedrich technicians joined Bauer, a social contract, and thus laid the foundation for the oldest printing press factory in the world. In the upper cell monastery at Würzburg, the first factory was set up.
Carl August Reichenbach, nephew Friedrich Gottlob Koenig, and his brother Carl Buz took over in 1844 a Augsburger Maschinenfabrik, which passed in 1898 to MAN.
The foreman Andreas Albert Koenig and Bauer and the miller's son Andreas Hamm ( bell-founder ) founded in 1861 in Frankenthal a press factory. This press factory changed its name to Schnellpressenfabrik, from which emerged today Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
After the 10 -year contract by Andreas Albert was dissolved, founded this in 1873 along with the merchant Wilhelm Molitor in new workshops Schnellpressenfabrik Albert & Cie.. OHG (later Albert - Frankenthal).
These three other major press manufacturers have their roots so also at Koenig and Bauer.
In recent years, printing specialists were ( completely ) was added to the group.
Previous Products
The table compares the production capacity of Koenig and Bauer invented to date printing equipment with the hand-cranked their precursors: