Koenig & Bauer AG said it sold a narrow-web Comet press to Standard Group Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya.

The press, to go on-edition this fall, will be used to print The Standard and other publications.

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Wim Maes, technical director of de Persgroep Publishing.
 

The variable-width press will be configured as three four-high H-type towers plus one half-unit, an insertion deck, a folder superstructure with one former, a 2:3:3 jaw folder with ribbon and section stitchers and two KBA control consoles. The machine will also feature automatic color, cutoff and register controls and automatic blanket washing.

Meantime, KBA said the first Cortina waterless press equipped with heatset technology is now in production at De Persgroep in Belgium.

KBA said the publisher is now on-edition with t he first four four-high towers of what eventually will be a 12-tower Cortina press at a new production facility in Lokeren, near Brussels.

The towers, equipped with heatset drying, use the same inks for both coldset and heatset production, KBA said.

De Persgroep prints daily newspapers and magazines, including Het Laatste Niews and DeMorgen.

KBA said seven Cortina presslines are currently in operation, in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, printing almost 70 million publications per month.