News from Poland

6 Dec 2016 14:44

5 years of Eurodruk Poznan The printing house of Eurodruk Polska was set up in Tarnowo Podgorne near Poznan five years ago. Its customers and partners met on 10th of November to celebrate this occasion. From the very beginning, the printing house was geared towards high volume heatset production of magazines, catalogues, brochures and commercial printing and it quickly gained popularity on the Polish market. Among its regular customers are: Burda Polska, GrŸner+Jahr, Polskapresse, Phoenix Press Media and supermarket chains (Tesco, Metro, Selgros, OBI, etc.). The Eurodruk Polska company also has a sheet-feed printing house in Cracow, built in 1997. The owner of Eurodruk Polska is Eurodruckservice AG, which belongs to Verlagsgruppe Passau. The Eurodruk Poznan printing house has been consistently equipped with the newest technologies. A very modern heatset printing press, MAN Roland Lithoman III was purchased in 1999. Two years ago, the printing house was the first one in Poland to buy a large-format CtP platesetter, Xcalibur VLF from Agfa, with a complete workflow system, Apogee, and last year, the second Lithoman III press started working in Tarnowo. First in Poland Marma Polskie Folie company from Rzeszow purchased a 10-colour flexo printing press, Infiniti with direct drive made by an American company, PCMC. It is the first such press in Poland. Infiniti (maximum web width 1270 mm) reaches the speed of 450 meters per min. Cut-off length 1200 mm is adjusted to the needs of a particular client: for production of bags and flexible packaging. The press is equipped with a patented printing unit and a drying system, eXtreme. Optional equipment includes: automated washer PCMC Vortex, video inspection system with code brand control and automatic initial register setting and a rotating longitudinal cutter. The press is expected to start running at the beginning of 2005. So far the company has been supplying the domestic market Đ the new press is to be used for high-quality export production. 8-colour Heidelberg press in Lotos Poligrafia In Lotos Poligrafia, a Warsaw-based printing house, a new 8-colour printing press with perfector, Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 74-8-P in the newest configuration was installed. It is a drupa 2004 model with new sheet feeding system and high delivery system. The press is equipped with Heidelberg Prinect ImageControl CPC 24 colour measurement system. Two other Heidelberg presses are also connected to this system, another 8-colour Speedmaster 74-8 and a 4-colour Speedmaster 74-4. It will enable the printing house to optimalise the use of one control post working on-line for the production run on the three presses. Lotos Poligrafia has been on the Polish market for 15 years now. In 2001, it was the first printing house in Poland to install new half-format 8-colour printing press, Heidelberg Speedmaster 74-8-P5. Bauer invests in KBA presses KBA is to supply two of its Jumboclass presses Đ KBA TR10B (web width 3,68 m) to BauerŐs second gravure printing house in Poland, currently being build in Wykroty (SSE Kamienna Góra). Total construction cost of the plant is almost 85 million Euro; it will employ around 150 people. Changes in ink manufacturers management Jaroslaw Lukomski joined the Sun ChemicalŐs management team and will hold the position of assistant managing director in Poland and manager for label inks in Central and Eastern Europe region. Previously, since 1997 J. Lukomski had been general director of ANI (Akzo Nobel Inks). *** Robert Gonta was chosen for the position of general director in the ANI Holdings Sp. z o.o. (Co. Ltd.) beginning from November this year. For the past two years he had held the position of technical director in Siegwerk Polska, and before that, production and infrastructure director in SICPA. A change in the Board of Directors of Papyrus Sp. z o.o. At the beginning of November this year, Pawel Bielak became President of the Board of Directors of Papyrus Sp. z o.o. (Co. Ltd.) and is now responsible for the supervision of the companyŐs current operations. Previously, Bielak had gained his experience in Antalis and more recently in Kappa Packaging.