Offset Printing

Always One Step Ahead

Signing the contract at drupa was almost a home game for the Kraft-Schlötels printing company with its headquarters in Wassenberg close to Mönchengladbach. From the left: Alwin Stadler, Regional Sales Manager Web Presses at manroland; Klaus and Michael Viehoff, owners of Kraft-Schlötels; Reinhard Herder, Managing Director of Kraft-Schlötels; Gerd Finkbeiner, CEO of manroland; Peter Schmitz, Technical Manager of Kraft-Schlötels; Stephan Steuber, Managing Director of Heinrich Steuber; Jörg Rahmlow, Commercial Manager of Kraft-Schlötels; Fritz Steuber; Heinrich Steuber; and Danilo Vaskovic, Web Press Project Manager at manroland.

Friday 13. June 2008 - Kraft-Schlötels orders a LITHOMAN with speed optimisation

Kraft-Schlötels has ordered another 72-page LITHOMAN from manroland with the contract being signed at drupa. The new press for this printing company from Wassenberg close to Mönchengladbach in Germany is to be equipped with an unusual extra feature: it will be prepared for speed optimisation of up to 50,000 cylinder rph.

This will increase the potential output of the new LITHOMAN for Kraft-Schlötels and considerably boost the company’s productivity in its most important market segment. manroland and Kraft-Schlötels have cooperated successfully for many years. Joining a 48-page LITHOMAN and a 72-page LITHOMAN with two folders, the third LITHOMAN will be used mainly to print long-run supplements. Reinhard Herder, Managing Director of Kraft-Schlötels: “This investment is a logical step to take after two years of very successful work on the part of my committed sales team. We are growing with our customers. Longer runs, higher pagination, shorter intervals between publication dates, and a narrower production window necessitate highly productive and flexible technology that can cope with a heavy workload, plus fast service. manroland provides this in an exemplary manner.” Alwin Stadler, Regional Sales Manager at manroland, about the contract: “The fact that Kraft-Schlötels has gone with manroland once again shows that we are on the right track. We offer reliable quality and groundbreaking technology.”

From sheetfed to web offset

Kraft-Schlötels was founded in 1975 as a sheetfed printing company but due to changing customer requirements switched to web offset three years later. Today the company produces a wide range of brochures and flyers in the high-volume segment exclusively by heatset offset for leading international customers, mainly for discount stores, the food industry, DIY stores, and fashion and furniture chains. Weekly advertising jobs for consumer goods with runs going into the millions are routine at Kraft-Schlötels, and the company’s product portfolio is rounded off by long-run magazines, catalogues and covers coated inline.