manroland
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| legal form | Stock company in bankruptcy |
| founding | 1979 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Seat | Offenbach am Main , Germany |
| management | Werner Schneider, insolvency administrator |
| Number of employees | 5,546 (December 31, 2010) |
| sales | EUR 738.3 million (2010) |
| Branch | Printing machines |
| Website | www.manroland.com |
The manroland AG (until 2008 MAN Roland Druckmaschinen ) was a manufacturer of printing presses for newspaper web offset, web offset and sheetfed offset for newspaper, publishing, commercial and packaging printing . Spread over the three locations Offenbach am Main , Augsburg and Plauen , Manroland recently employed around 6500 people (as of November 2011).
On November 25, 2011, the Manroland board of directors filed for insolvency proceedings with the Augsburg district court . As a result, Manroland was split into Manroland sheetfed and Manroland web systems in 2012 ; Manroland Sheetfed, based in Offenbach, was taken over by the British Langley Holdings ; Manroland Web Systems, based in Augsburg, went to the Possehl Group.
history
19th century
Carl August Reichenbach , nephew of KBA founder Friedrich Koenig , and Carl Buz took over the Sander'sche Maschinen-Fabrik in Augsburg in 1844 and thus started the Reichenbach'sche Maschinenfabrik. Six months later, the two printing press pioneers delivered their first high-speed press to Nikolaus Hartmann's Augsburg printing company. In 1857 the company was converted into the Aktiengesellschaft Maschinenfabrik Augsburg and in 1872 a complete newspaper printing plant was set up - with a steam boiler and steam engine .
In addition to the high-speed press, the 19th century brought about another innovation in printing machine construction. Just like a newspaper publisher with the invention of the high-speed press, an entrepreneur gave the impetus here too. Around 1850, the question arose whether the rotary press principle was suitable for letterpress printing . On behalf of John Walter III , the publisher of the “Times”, the two engineers JC MacDonald and John Calverly developed and built the world's first rotary printing press for newspaper printing . This printing press became known as the " Walterpresse ". The Maschinenfabrik Augsburg sent their development manager Gustav Bissinger June 1872 to England. Information trips by German engineers to the workshops and factories in England, the leading industrial nation of this era, had a long tradition. The first rotary printing press from Maschinenfabrik Augsburg was quickly designed. Although it also worked on the Walter principle, this machine was smaller and lighter and the machine parts were more easily accessible. In May 1873, the Augsburgers presented them at the world exhibition in Vienna.
Two years earlier, the two mechanical engineers Louis Faber and Adolf Schleicher founded the Faber & Schleicher company as an "association business for the manufacture of high-speed lithographic presses". For the history of lithography plays Offenbach an important role, because Alois Senefelder himself has built some of his first lithographic printing presses for the André music publishing. The first high-speed lithographic press built by Faber & Schleicher in 1879, the "Albatros", achieved an hourly output of 600 to 700 sheets.
20th century
Through a merger, the "United Machine Factory Augsburg and Machine Building Society Nürnberg AG, Augsburg" was founded in 1889, which was then renamed in 1908 in Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (MAN AG). The great advances in rotary printing - together with the experience and know-how from lithography as well as zinc and tin printing - made offset printing possible at the beginning of the 20th century . The inventors, Ira Washington Rubel and Caspar Herrmann, adopted the principle of indirect printing known from tin printing and developed this new type of printing process between 1904 and 1907. The Offenbach-based machine builder began specializing in offset printing in 1911 with the “Roland” model, the world's first sheet-fed rotary printing press for offset printing. This new development won a gold medal at the exhibition in Turin , the name "Roland" was chosen because "Faber & Schleicher" is hardly pronounced in English-speaking countries. In 1921 the first prototype of a three-cylinder web offset printing machine in the Berlin format was developed. The new single-color offset machine Klein-Roland 00 was introduced in 1922, which could print up to 5,000 sheets per hour.
From 1931 onwards, a rotary printing press could print 25,000 newspapers / 16 pages in one hour. After the Second World War, a four-color printing machine (Ultra model) was presented at the first drupa printing and paper trade fair in 1951 . Three quarters of the total editions of all German daily newspapers from 1960 were produced on systems from Augsburg. In 1972, with the ROLAND 800, an integrated color control system found its way into sheetfed offset, which enables printing of 10,000 sheets per hour. Two years later, the largest rotary printing press in Europe was built in Augsburg: the 17-web offset rotary press COLORMAN with 62 printing units.
In 1979 the company MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG (Offenbach / Main) was founded. It emerged from a merger of the "Roland Offset- und Maschinenfabrik Faber und Schleicher" with the "Augsburger MAN-Druck- und Maschinenbau". In 1986, the LITHOMAN printing press was introduced in web offset, with cylinders with 60,000 revolutions per hour and electronic control center technology . PECOM was introduced in control room technology in 1990, combined with a new automation concept for the medium-sized ROLAND 700, which can use this technology to print 15,000 sheets per hour. Five years later, the LITHOMAN printing machine was presented at drupa with a new machine concept for commercial web offset. With a variety of additional components, it can be expanded into a multifunctional production system for every requirement. With the ROLAND 900, a sheetfed offset press for large format was presented at drupa in Düsseldorf that same year.
In July 1990, the Plamag Plauen company was taken over.
In the course of takeovers at MAN, Miller Johannisberg Druckmaschinen from Geisenheim came to MAN Roland in the same year . The Miller machines were supposed to complement the MAN Roland machines and not be replaced by them, which was also expressed in the new, independent name MAN Miller . In addition, MAN Roland had the opportunity to use free production capacities in Geisenheim to build their own machines.
21st century
After poor financial years, triggered by the global crisis in the printing industry, MAN Roland found itself in a serious crisis from 2001 to 2004. In this phase, MAN Roland focused on the future. In 2002 the company took over the majority of the software manufacturer ppi Media GmbH , a globally active Hamburg company founded in 1984 that develops software for automated newspaper production.
In 2005, after extensive restructuring, MAN Roland was able to generate profits again. In January 2006 MAN sold the majority of its subsidiary MAN Roland Druckmaschinen to the investor Allianz Capital Partners , a subsidiary of Allianz . The shares were held by a holding company in which MAN holds 35% and ACP holds 65%. With the shares, the entire business operations and all subsidiaries including the existing liabilities were taken over. The goal was to promote the world's second largest manufacturer of printing systems and to bring it to the stock exchange a few years later.
A new technology for sheet-fed offset printing was presented in Mainz in October 2006 : With DirectDrive it is possible to reduce makeready times by 60% using directly driven plate cylinders .
In May 2008, out of MAN Roland Druckmaschinen the manroland . The new logo was presented on May 28, 2008 at the drupa press conference in Düsseldorf.
In 2010, the Autoprint concept for web and sheet-fed offset printing was introduced. It enables more print jobs to be processed in less time and quick job changes thanks to an intelligent control system. Since 2010 Manroland has also been marketing Océ inkjet printing systems . In the same year, the first LITHOMAN 96-page web press was sold. Manroland has been offering human resources services with highly qualified technical staff through Manroland Industrieservice since 2011.
Manroland was most recently the world market leader in web offset printing machines.
insolvency
After the failure of negotiations with a potential investor, the stock corporation applied for the opening of insolvency proceedings in November 2011 and at the same time made an application for self- administration to be able to complete ongoing restructuring measures . The Augsburg District Court named Werner Schneider as the preliminary insolvency administrator . According to the company, the "renewed dramatic slump in incoming orders, which has been observed since mid-July and has recently accelerated" was the reason for the move to the district court. Reference was also made to the more difficult financing options for customers as a result of the financial crisis as well as competitive pressure and the associated falling profit margins . The entire industry is affected by the unpredictably poor development. On January 18, 2012, the insolvency administrator announced that the Augsburg plant would be sold to the Possehl Group from Lübeck. The plant in Plauen is supported by Possehl through supplier contracts. On February 9, 2012, the British entrepreneur Tony Langley and the privately owned machine construction group Langley Holdings took over the sheetfed printing press division at the Offenbach site and the manroland sales organization in more than 40 countries.
Products
The company's product range included printing machines for
- Sheet offset printing machines z. B. Large format sheetfed offset ; For drupa 2008 a machine in small format 00 was introduced
- Newspaper printing and commercial printing
- Printvalue: Services, consumables and consulting services
Web links
- Official website
- manroland printing machines database - Extensively designed overview page with all MAN Roland printing machines from Drupama since 1900
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Manroland in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates of manroland
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b manroland AG: Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine , accessed on November 25, 2011
- ↑ Financial Times Deutschland ( memento of November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 25, 2011
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.manroland.com/
- ^ History of manroland AG in Augsburg ( Memento from December 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Johannes Bähr u. a .: " The MAN: a German industrial history ", CH Beck, Berlin, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8
- ↑ Karla Wiesinger: Searching for traces of the Johannisberg printing machine construction 1846–1990. P. 305 ff., Marianne Breuer Verlag, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim 2000, ISBN 3-9804701-3-X .
- ^ Clemens von Frentz: MAN Roland: New name, new brand identity on druck-medien.net from May 25, 2008; accessed on February 21, 2016
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ manroland applies for the opening of insolvency proceedings (press release of November 25, 2011) ( Memento of December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ manroland.com: Products and Services ( Memento from December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
