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day’s events surrounding the anniversary celebration, which included the opportunity for participants to tour the company’s facilities. The KBA name was introduced in 1990 after the
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takeover of Albert-Frankenthal AG. The time was right, according to company CEO Claus Bolza- Schünemann, to revert back to the original brand of Koenig & Bauer. “Koenig & Bauer AG today has 33 subsidiaries,” said Bolza-Schünemann. “Twelve of them produce their own products for their own customers. We see the company anniversary as an ideal time to place all ac- tivities of the Group, from classic printing to digital printing — including prepress and post-press and top service — under a strong common roof again.” A Company Is Born The company was launched by two inventors and entrepreneurs named Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer. As early as 1814, the Times in London, Eng- land, was being printed using a cylinder press invent- ed by the two men. In 1817, Koenig & Bauer founded the world’s fir st printing press factor y in the monastery in Oberzell, Germany. In 1876, the compa- ny delivered the first web-fed press and in 1901 it moved into a new plant in Wurzburg, where its head- quarters remains to this day. The relaunch, according to Bolza-Schünemann, is in- tended to strengthen the employees’ pride in the his- tor y of the company, including the many new employees who have joined the Group through ac- quisitions.The company hopes that old and new cus- tomers alike will feel the strength of this traditional Koenig & Bauer is currently working to complete a new demo center that is being assembled to show- case digital and flexographic printing. Eric Frank, Senior VP of Marketing, stands where the EVO series flexo printing press for flexible packaging will be located in the future.
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