With automated triple-wide productivity, you can print a lot of gazettes and newspapers with a single press tower.

That’s the logic behind an order for a KBA Commander CT 6/2 placed by Nussbaum Medien St. Leon-Rot, which plans to take over the work of two Albert 101s and a Clauberg web press as well as jobs sent out.

The German media enterprise is upgrading its printing house to strengthen print products in a competitive media arena.

Proprietor Klaus Nussbaum says the highly automated compact press lays “the perfect foundations” for printing the group’s plethora of small circulation gazettes and bulletins extremely efficiently, flexibly and economically. “Along with the high level of performance, the press will enable us to improve print quality, cut waste, and enhance ease of operation and reduce maintenance tasks for our press operators.”

Nussbaum Medien St. Leon-Rot publishes gazettes and private bulletins in the Rhine-Neckar region, around North Karlsruhe and the municipality Altrip near Ludwigshafen, focussing on local towns and communities with up to 20,000 inhabitants.

In the Rhine-Neckar region Nussbaum Medien St. Leon-Rot reaches about 60 per cent of households, and the company also has facilities in Bad Friedrichshall and owns Druckerei Stein in Bad Rappenau in the north-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg.

Under the management and ownership of Klaus Nussbaum the three media houses publish local newspapers in more than 100 cities and communities. Typically all the printing plates will be changed for nearly 100 different weekly titles with runs varying between 700-23,500 copies, and from eight to 48 tabloid pages apiece. The company also prints local telephone directories.

The triple-width Commander CT will have a cylinder circumference of 900 mm and a maximum web width of 1860 mm. It will print 48-page all-colour tabloids at 40,000 cph, with pagination changes initiated automatically from a console which also includes production scheduling and presetting software.

Other equipment includes a Pastomat reelstand embedded in KBA Patras A automatic reel handling and stripping. A high level of automation includes automatic plate changing, roller locks, colour-register controls, ink pumping and washing systems. The folder superstructure will have three formers, a KF3 jaw folder, cut-off register controls and a section stitcher.

Pictured: The KBA Commander CT 6/2 for Nussbaum Medien St. Leon-Rot

A formal photograph overlooked by historic portraits includes (seated from left) KBA executive vice-president Christoph Müller, Klaus Nussbaum, and Nussbaum Medien commercial managing director Timo Bechtold; with (standing) KBA sales director Alexander Huttenlocher, plant manager Ender Kavakli and Georg Fleder (KBA)