KBA has announced the launch of a new sales and service company in Taipei.
A celebration in mid-July attended by guests including representatives from the Taiwan Printing & Machinery and Material Industry Associations as well as the Printing Technology Research Institute featured a demonstration of the company's latest sheetfed technology at longstanding customer Joy Printing.
Managing director of the new subsidiary is Akio Pong, who has 30 years of experience in the printing industry.
Sales director Dietmar Heyduck presented latest developments and the group's positive image in the Chinese market - with considerable success at Print China in April in Dongguan - was emphasised by Dietmar Heyduck: "Our customer base in Asia has changed and grown significantly.
"At the same time competition is tougher. The Taiwan market is extremely important for KBA and has grown considerably," he says.
Akio Pong, Andreas Friedrich (general manager web sales and service in China), and Sam Sun (business development director at KBA-Metronic Shanghai) gave in-depth overviews of the product portfolio which ranges from sheetfed offset, digital, web offset and flexo printing to metal decorating and digital coding technology.
Dietmar Heyduck thanked Chen Yong Long, managing director of Joy Printing, for the business partnership spanning decades. For over 20 years the company has produced printed packaging for brand-name articles on KBA presses worldwide. Its customers are active in the cosmetics, electronic, biotechnology and entertainment industries. Visiting printing experts were shown two printing jobs on a Rapida 105 with seven printing units, coater and UV curing. Huang Hung-Ju (sales manager at KBA Taiwan) presented the press, explained the technical processes behind job changing and print production, and gave an overview of the outstanding solutions for washing (CleanTronic), plate changing and drying (VariDry drying systems).
Pictured: Guests celebrate with champagne