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the shipping facility, and the foundry – workers were pour- ing molten steel like they were doing 200 years ago — and finally, the Customer Technology Center.
their speed. The degree of engineering, the size of the machine at 2.8m, and the print quality is a game-chang- er for us.” After the day’s demonstration at Klingele Paper and Packaging, the group was again in transit, this time to Bremen, where it boarded a train for a four-hour trip through snow covered countryside to Würzburg, home of Koenig & Bauer’s world headquarters. The North American contingent spent the morning of Day 4 (Friday) in the conference room of Koenig & Bau- er’s ultra-modern business offices for in-depth presenta- tions by Hannah Potrawa, Director Corrugated and Jens Eckendorfer, Technical Sales Manager, who recapped and distilled the information discovered during ma- chine demonstrations at Cepac Group in Rawcliffe and Klingele Paper and Packaging Group in Delmenhorst, while providing information on machine specifications, production capabilities, manufacturing, performance ex- pectations, customer support and service. The sedentary morning meeting in the conference room spent drinking coffee and eating German pas- tries was offset by a very active afternoon on a walking tour of Koenig & Bauer’s expansive business campus: each member of the traveling contingent achieved their “10,000 steps” while visiting the canteen (cafeteria) for lunch, multiple assembly halls (manufacturing shops),
If the foundry was a reminder of Koenig & Bauer’s sto- ried past, then the Technology Center was a reminder of its bright future. Spacious, white, well-lit and spotlessly clean, the facili- ty’s “centerpiece” was Koenig & Bauer’s RotaJET, which is being hailed as one of the most future-proof high-volume inkjet printing systems on the market, serving a range of Koenig & Bauer’s RotaJET is being hailed as one of the most future-proof high-volume inkjet printing systems on the mar- ket today.
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