New ABB consoles are being commissioned in February on four KBA Commander presses at Straits Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings in Jurong as part of a programme covering all 16 presses.

The work includes the transfer of a series of SPH-specific functions to the new platform as well as an upgraded interface to their WPC register control system.

The order is one of several announced by ABB.

Mediaworks is upgrading its MPS print management system at Budapest, Hungary, putting the latest version of MPS Production 6 into service at the start of next year. Press control consoles are also to have hardware upgrades.

And at Rhein-Neckar Zeitung in Heidelberg, Germany, hardware upgrades for its six control consoles are to be delivered this November.