News from Poland

6 Dec 2016 14:44

World premiere of Komori press in Taurus printing house The first in the world A2 format 10-colour printing press Komori Lithrone with ălong perfectorÓ had its official start-up at the end of May in the Taurus printing house located near Warsaw. Because of such an important occasion, Yoshiharu Komori, the company's president, paid Taurus a visit. Poland is presently considered to be the market with the greatest opportunities among the new member countries of the European Union. Lithrone L-1026 P is the first A2 10-colour printing press in Poland and the manufacturer offered special supervision programme conditions, both in terms of service and training. The guests from Japan had positive impressions of the level of work in the printing house and they entrusted the installation and start-up to the their Polish partner, the Reprograf company. Polish printing house awarded at Fespa During this year's Fespa fair contest in Munich also called ăthe Oscars of screen printÓ, over 400 works were submitted in 20 categories. Among them, there were two works from the Pasja Printing House from Mikolow: a calendar and a backlit colour graphics work on a plastic surface. Both were awarded Gold Prizes in their categories. It's interesting to know that at Fespa in Madrid 3 years ago, the Pasja Printing House was also a recipient of the Gold Prize. Pasja has been active in the printing business for 12 years, specializing in screen printing and print finishing, using many unique methods and technologies very rare in Poland. Next Pyrabelisk conference in Warsaw Warsaw hosted another international conference organised by the British company. Last year, the conference in Warsaw was devoted to security printing; this year the topic was paper and board packaging production. It was already the second conference of the cycle: ăPaper and Board in Central and Eastern EuropeÓ organised by Pyrabelisk (the first one was held in Budapest last year). About one hundred people participated: suppliers, board and paper manufacturers, and printers. The two-day meeting was divided into four thematic parts, focused respectively on development forecasts for the packaging production business in East-Central Europe, challenges and strategies of paper and board manufacturers, packaging manufacturersŐ strategies and brand protection technologies. Among the speakers were representatives of: Jaakko Pšyry, International Paper, Pyrabelisk, Papcel, Mondi Packaging, Bobst, Eurobox Polska, Drent-Goebel. Poligrafika was one of media partners of the conference. KBA in Poland Đ dual distribution At a meeting in Radebeul, representatives of KBA, KBA-Grafitec and Deva-Print (Polish representative of KBA) worked out the rules of distribution of KBA presses in Poland. It was confirmed that the sales will be carried out the same way as it has been done so far, i.e. via two channels. Sheet-fed offset presses Performa 66 and Performa 74 (till the end of 2004 known as Polly 66 and Polly 74) in the A2 and B2 formats will still be offered by the Czech company, KBA-Grafitec, a few months ago taken over by the German company. On the other hand, Deva-Print will still be offering original printing presses made by KBA, including the very popular in Poland sheet-fed presses of the Rapida series. Both companies are to cooperate closely in sales and service of the presses on the Polish market.