KBA North America’s Web Offset Service Department has completed a drive retrofit of two reelstands, plus a retrofit of the motion control and drives in one of the four printing towers in the pressroom at Toronto’s Metroland Media – one of Canada’s leading community media companies with operations in newspapers, digital properties, flyer distribution, printing, consumer shows, magazines, directories and online commerce. This unique web service retrofit/rebuild program, which is only offered by KBA, offers preventative changeover installation from drive components from AMK and BRC on an existing web offset press, and replaces them with new, enhanced and more efficient technology.
“We print over 100 community newspapers with over 125 editions that span from London in southwest Ontario to Ottawa in the northeast, with concentration around Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area,” said Wayne Savage, Maintenance Supervisor at Metroland Media. “It’s imperative that we have reliable running equipment. We chose KBA to do the retrofit because we felt they could do the job with the least amount of downtime and because of the extensive knowledge of their factory-trained personnel. In fact, KBA’s retrofit process didn’t hinder our production at all. They came in, did their work without any interference to anybody, and got the job done on schedule.” The KBA team delivered the new AMK reelstands and BRC motion control and drives to the Metroland Toronto Media pre-assembled and ready to be mounted and re-wired. During the month-long installation, the KBA team worked hand-in-hand with the newspaper’s production team.
“At KBA, we’re able to audit, analyze and recommend programs to our customers and even non-customers to increase output and quality,” said Stefan Prohaska, Director of Customer Service at KBA North America. “Asset condition and reliability is key to dependable production and delivering products on time. Our goal with the web offset retrofit service is to provide newspapers with reliable manufacturing and successful production on their web offset presses and to keep the technology running smoothly.”
Metroland Media publishes over 100 community newspapers with over 125 editions. KBA North America is located in Dallas, Texas and is a member of the KBA Group. Established almost 200 years ago in Wuerzburg, Germany, Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) is the oldest and second largest press manufacturer in the world.
KBA provides unique web offset service upgrade at Toronto’s Metroland Media
