Offset Printing
MAN Roland Groundbreaking in Printing Industry
Thursday 20. March 2008 - Printing press manufacturer leading in patents
The automobile and engineering industries are the innovation drivers in Germany, and in 2007 again accounted for most of the patents applied for over the year. In this respect, MAN Roland as the only printing press manufacturer represents the printing industry among the top 20 most active patent applicants in Germany.
MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG has always stood up for a strong printing industry and strongly competitive print products in the globalized media world. It is this spirit that guides MAN Roland in its research and development work, making purposeful use of its resources of time and money.
Most of the patents in the industry
With 210 published patent applications published by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in 2007, MAN Roland remains leading in the printing industry and a true driver of innovation in this field. The printing press manufacturer has repeatedly been one of the top 20 among the 50 most active patent applicants in Germany, ahead of the competitors in the industry. A look at the illustrious global brands among the top 20 shows the high level of quality at which development work is carried out at MAN Roland.
Pioneering technology boosting customers strength
With its value-adding philosophies Applied Innovations and Value Added Printing MAN Roland orients its activities to suit market trends and answer customer needs. This is testified to, in both commercial web and newspaper offset, by the APL system for automatic plate change, with robot technology being used for this in newspaper printing – a first in the printing industry. The sheetfed press ROLAND 700 DirectDrive has won two impor-tant 2007 Technology Awards: the InterTech Technology Award of the American PIA/GATF and the Innovation Award of the German printing industry.