KBA back with Dauir in Kazakhstan

Jan 31, 2017 at 08:19 pm by Staff


KBA has re-established a relationship with Dauir Printing House in Kazakhstan, which produces an amazing range of work including 60 newspaper titles.

The German press maker has installed a Rapida 105 machine in January, following a visit by KBA president Claus Bolza-Schünemann a year ago. This paved the way for the colour sheetfed investment which follows 25 years of purchasing presses from other German and Japanese manufacturers

Dauir Printing House in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, was founded in 1932 as "Printing House No. 2" and reportedly printed more than 3,000 different newspaper titles and books during the Soviet era, much of it on KBA equipment.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the company was privatised and Dauir - which name translates as "our times" - was acquired by a group of investors headed by Svetlana Nazarbayeva, sister-in-law of the president of Kazakhstan. The building was renovated from the ground up, and the machinery base was modernised with a new printing press or downstream finishing machine was purchased almost every year.

Today, Dauir counts a workforce of almost 600 employees, many of whom have studied at the Moscow Institute of Printing. The product portfolio centres around illustrated books, encyclopaedias and popular literature. For the past 12 years, educational textbooks have also become standard products, together with a diversity of materials for the further training of teachers and lecturers.

A publishing subsidiary Kitap was founded in 2003, and has activities which also embrace a wide range of poetry and fiction, alongside some 60 newspaper titles.

Pictured: Svetlana Nazarbayeva is presented with an historic KBA share certificate by sales director Sven Strzelczyk, symbolising the good dividends which the new press will soon be paying its owner


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