Offset Printing

New compact Commander CT to print for Expo 2008 in Saragossa

On 14 June the first section of a new high-automation Commander CT press line is scheduled to go live on the opening day of the world exhibition. Delighted at the prospect are Pilar de Yarza Monpeón (centre), president of the Heraldo Group and the Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association, her nephew Fernando de Yarza Monpeón, CEO of the Heraldo Group (l) and KBA executive vice-president for web press sales Christoph Müller

Saturday 07. June 2008 - Heraldo de Aragón - deployer of KBA newspaper technology for the past 111 years

From 14 June to 14 September 2008 a world exhibition entitled “Water and Sustainable Development” will run in the city of Saragossa in northern Spain. More than 100 nations are taking part and over seven million visitors are expected. The official Expo newspaper will be printed at longstanding KBA customer Heraldo de Aragón on the first two towers of a new KBA Commander CT press line that will launch into operation on the opening day.

Heraldo de Aragón has been an all-KBA operation for the past 111 years. It just pipped the New York Daily News at the post as the first newspaper publishing house outside Europe to place an order for this ultra-compact wet offset press. The third Commander CT tower for Spain is one of the many attractions on KBA’s Drupa stand. Yesterday the Heraldo de Aragón management team paid a friendly visit to Düsseldorf and was happy to line up at the tower for a group photo.