Koenig & Bauer

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Koenig & Bauer AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0007193500
founding 1817
Seat Wurzburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
Number of employees 5,644
sales 1,226 million euros (2018)
Branch Printing machines
Website koenig-bauer.com
As of December 31, 2018

Double or twin rotary machine for the Lübeck ads from the Schnellpressenfabrik Frankenthal Albert & Co., Akt. Ges. In Frankenthal (1904)

The Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA formerly of K oenig & B capercaillie A lbert) is a manufacturer of printing machines , with headquarters in Würzburg . According to its own information, the company is the oldest printing press manufacturer in the world and the world market leader in large-format sheetfed offset , packaging, newspaper and tin printing and, with a market share of around 90 percent, the world market leader in banknote printing (KBA-NotaSys). With the Rapida 205, the company is building the world's largest sheet-fed offset printing press. While the structural change in the media industry has caused the demand for machines in publication printing to collapse sharply since the outbreak of the global financial crisis from 2007 , demand in the packaging business increased significantly over the same period and, according to the company, now accounted for 70 percent of new machines sold in 2016. The company's share was listed on the SDAX until June 2014 and returned there in June 2015.

Products (selection)

The company's product range includes printing machines for sheet-fed offset printing, for example large-format sheet-fed offset printing , banknote printing and security printing , newspaper printing and commercial printing as well as sheet metal printing . Web offset printing machines ( especially newspaper printing), sheet offset printing machines ( e.g. posters and packaging), security printing machines (steel engraving) including hologram presses; KBA-NotaSys is the world market leader in money printing machines.

Locations

Würzburg 49 ° 48 ′ 28 ″ N, 9 ° 52 ′ 45 ″ E

Newspaper rotary and telephone book printing machines are manufactured in the Würzburg plant. The foundry also produces cylinders and frames for other plants. There are 2000 employees in the plant. Newspaper rotary and commercial printing presses are manufactured in the Trennfeld plant, along with the superstructures, and some of the printing cylinders are pre-assembled here. In mid-2007, 300 employees worked here. In autumn 2007 it was announced that the publication and decor gravure printing machine segment would be sold to the previous competitor “ Officine Meccaniche Giovanni Cerutti ”.

Frankenthal 49 ° 32 '2 "N, 8 ° 20' 53" E

Folding units and commercial offset presses are manufactured in the Frankenthal plant. There are 700 employees.

Koenig & Bauer AG Radebeul plant (formerly PLANETA), seen from the Jacobstein , 2008
Radebeul 51 ° 6 ′ 34 ″ N, 13 ° 35 ′ 39 ″ E & 51 ° 5 ′ 40 ″ N, 13 ° 41 ′ 47 ″ E

Printing machines have been built in Radebeul near Dresden since 1898 , then under the names Dresdner Schnellpressen-Fabrik and Radebeuler Maschinenfabrik August Koebig . The plant is responsible for the sheet-fed offset presses. A large part of the turnover is achieved with the RAPIDA machine series (2010: 1375 employees).

Maria Enzersdorf 48 ° 5 ′ 45 ″ N, 16 ° 17 ′ 28 ″ E ,

Maschinenfabrik Koenig & Bauer (AT) GmbH assembles security printing machines for KBA-NotaSys and distributes sheetfed offset machines from Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed in Austria . According to their own statements, 90% of all banknotes worldwide are produced on their printing machines. In 2013, around 700 people were employed at the two locations in Maria Enzersdorf near Mödling and Ternitz in southern Lower Austria. Great emphasis is placed on training. In 2006, around 60 apprentices were employed, some of whom were also housed in our own apprentice home. At the Ternitz location, a new factory for chrome plating pressure cylinders was built in 1997, in October 2014 Ternitz ( 47 ° 43 ′ 34 ″ N, 16 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ E ) was closed and sold to the Styrian entrepreneur Heinz Ehgartner. In 2014, Mödling relocated departments of the sheetfed press program to other parts of the group.

Key figures

Company key figures in a multi-year comparison:

year Sales in billions of euros Change compared to previous year in% Result in million euros Employees (including trainees)
2006 1,742 7.5 47.4 8,269
2007 1.704 −2.2 63.2 8,236
2008 1.532 −10.1 −87.1 8,052
2009 1.050 −31.5 2.7 7,327
2010 1.179 12.3 15.3 6,515
2011 1.167 −1.0 3.3 6,401
2012 1.294 10.9 6.1 6,272
2013 1,100 −15 −153.7 6,257
2014 1,100 0 0.4 6,058
2015 1.025 −6.8 26.9 5,286
2016 1.167 13.9 82.2 5,287
2017 1.128 −3.3 81.1 5,450
2018 1,226 8.7 64.0 5,644
2019 1.218 −0.1 38.4 5,763

History in Austria

In 1848, Koenig's nephew Heinrich Löser founded a machine factory in Vienna. Over the decades, the company changed its name several times, including between 1890 and 1908 it was called L.Kaiser's Sons . During this time, the company moved to the municipal border between Mödling and Maria Enzersdorf . From 1927 the company name was Schnellpressenfabrik Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft Mödling .

The work was German property during the Second World War . So it fell into the administration of the USIA operations under Soviet occupation . It was not until 1955 that it was privatized again under the direction of the then chairman of the board, Alfred Schischek. His son Wolfgang Schischek became his successor. In 1967 the Austrian branch received the state award and has since been authorized to use the federal coat of arms in business dealings. In 1962, the entire production of simultaneous security printing machines from Würzburg was taken over in Mödling and continuously developed.

Works until 2004

  • Berlin plant, KBA-Berlin GmbH in Berlin- Hakenfelde . Most recently, all reel splicers, infeed units and chill roll stands were manufactured here. The plant employed around 120 people
  • Kusel plant in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

Factory view (around 1910)
Company history and people involved
Share over RM 100 in Schnellpressenfabrik Koenig & Bauer AG from January 1930

On August 9, 1817, the farmer's son and trained printer Johann Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and the technician Andreas Friedrich Bauer signed a partnership agreement in London, thereby laying the foundation stone for the world's oldest printing machine factory. This first high-speed press factory was set up in the Oberzell monastery near Würzburg . Location: 49 ° 48 ′ 4 ″ N, 9 ° 52 ′ 44 ″ E In 1828 a second location was established in the former monastery mill of the dissolved Münsterschwarzach Abbey. 49 ° 48 '20.7 "  N , 10 ° 13' 49.9"  E

Carl August Reichenbach , a nephew of Friedrich Gottlob Koenig, and his brother-in-law Carl Buz took over a machine factory in Augsburg in 1844, which was transferred to MAN in 1898 . 48 ° 22 ′ 52 "N, 10 ° 53 ′ 19" E

The foreman Andreas Albert von Koenig und Bauer and the miller's son Andreas Hamm (bell founder) founded a press factory in Frankenthal in 1863. This press factory changed its name to a high-speed press factory , from which today's Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG emerged.

After Andreas Albert's 10-year contract was terminated , he and the businessman Wilhelm Molitor founded the Albert & Cie. High- speed press factory in new workshops in 1873 . OHG (later Albert-Frankenthal).

These three other large printing press manufacturers also have their roots in Koenig und Bauer.

In the last few years, printing specialists have been (fully) included in the group.

  • 1990 Albert-Frankenthal (illustration and commercial printing)
  • 1994 PLANETA from Radebeul ( large-format and medium-format sheetfed offset)
  • 2003 Bauer and Kunzi from Ditzingen near Stuttgart ( tin printing )
  • 2004 MePrint AG from Veitshöchheim (printing on foils, plastics, Blu-Rays / DVDs, plastic cards , innovative labeling devices )
  • 2005 Grafitec from Dobruška ( small format sheetfed offset)
  • 2006 LTG Mailander from Stuttgart ( metal printing )
  • 2013 KAMMANN from Bad Oeynhausen (screen printing systems for direct decoration of glass containers, hollow body printing)
  • 2013 Flexotecnica SpA (flexo presses for flexible packaging)

Previous products

The table compares the production capacity of the printing machines invented by Koenig and Bauer to date with that of their hand-operated predecessors:

Hand operated presses Steam powered machines
Gutenberg press
around 1600 		Stanhope press
around 1800 		Koenig and Bauer
1812 		Koenig and Bauer
1813 		Koenig and Bauer
1814 		Koenig and Bauer
1818
Prints per hour 240 480 800 1,100 2,000 2,400

literature

  • Rudolf Hundhausen: Schnellpressenfabrik Koenig & Bauer GmbH Würzburg. In: Die deutsche Industrie (1888–1913), Berlin 1913, p. X85.
  • Bolza, Hans (1967): Friedrich Koenig and the invention of the printing machine , in: Technikgeschichte , Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 79-89
  • Wolf, Hans-Jürgen (1974): History of the printing press , Interprint, Frankfurt / Main

Web links

Commons : Koenig & Bauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors | Koenig & Bauer | we're on it. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Supervisory Board | Koenig & Bauer | we're on it. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Annual Report 2018 , accessed on June 20, 2019
  4. ↑ Post-Sequence: The 10 sheetfed offset presses with the largest format. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Koenig & Bauer AG: Group Report 2016 (PDF; 3.45 MB) Accessed March 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ Koenig & Bauer (AT) | Koenig & Bauer (AT). Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ KBA Mödling cooperates with the ECHEM competence center , press release April 2, 2000, accessed on April 15, 2009.
  8. ↑ derStandard.at - At KBA-Mödling up to 500 jobs wobble . Article dated October 31, 2014, accessed October 31, 2014.
  9. ↑ Styrian entrepreneur buys KBA Ternitz location in the industrial magazine of January 26, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ Koenig & Bauer is cutting up to 460 jobs in Mödling . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed on August 21, 2017]).
  11. ↑ 404 | KBA.com. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Key figures | Koenig & Bauer | we're on it. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  13. ↑ KBA-Mödling GmbH: KBA-Mödling | Change of company name, renewed equity participation by Koenig & Bauer AG (1962-11-06). Accessed August 21, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Banknote and securities machine park 100 years in Maria Enzersdorf on the Maria Enzersdorf page from 2002, accessed on April 15, 2009.
  15. ↑ Münchner Merkur , June 10, 2005.
  16. ↑ KBA: Board of Directors decides to realign the KBA. Retrieved August 21, 2017 (Spanish).
  17. ↑ Wolf (1974), p. 67f.
  18. ↑ Bolza (1967), p. 80
  19. ↑ Bolza (1967), p. 83
  20. ↑ Bolza (1967), p. 87
  21. ↑ a b Bolza (1967), p. 88