Color printing Weber in new hands
Offset printing Three new Rotoman presses at Bieler Farbendruck Weber provided MAN Roland with the impetus for a two-day technology forum in Interlaken.
Commercial web offset printing Three new Rotoman presses at Biel-based Farbendruck Weber AG provided MAN Roland with the impetus for a two-day technology forum in Interlaken, where three automated 16-page presses were installed to meet the cost pressures of the market. Two of the new Rotoman presses can produce 16 A4 pages and 32 pages in a single pass. The third Rotoman is equipped to produce 2×8 and 4×4 pages as well as from roll to sheet. Weber also has a 48-page Lithoman web press and four Roland 700 and 900 sheet-fed presses, which enable the company to produce image brochures, product and sales catalogs, corporate publishing magazines, leaflets and flyers to optimum effect. The high demands of luxury brand manufacturers such as the Swatch Group, TAG Heuer and Hermès in terms of image impact in detail, brilliance and contrast are also met. For the 300 or so participants at the Rotoman Forum, the takeover of Farbendruck Weber added a whole new dimension to the transformation of the printing industry. Weber has been sold by its owner, the French group Partenaires-Livres, to the German group Arques/Arquana, Starnberg, which took a stand at the forum.
Arques Industries AG is Germany's first listed company specializing in the acquisition and restructuring of companies in transition. Its portfolio includes chemical and mechanical engineering companies, a baby carriage manufacturer and a paper mill (Wolfsheck from Stora Enso). The value creation potential of these companies is revitalized by a dedicated team.
The Arques subsidiary Arquana International Print & Media AG focuses on the consolidation ("buy & build") of web offset and packaging printing companies. It already includes Colordruck (Pforzheim), J.P. Bachem (Cologne), Johler Druck (Neumünster), Wanfried Druck (Wanfried/D), Evry Rotatives (Paris) and Sochor Group (Zell am See/A), which together generate a turnover of 187 million euros. Farbendruck Weber is the largest and probably the most modern company in this group with over 50 million euros. The ambitious group aims to achieve a turnover of over EUR 500 million by 2008, to be the top 3 web offset printer in Germany and the top 5 in Europe.
Hans Joachim Laue
Arques Industries AG is Germany's first listed company specializing in the acquisition and restructuring of companies in transition. Its portfolio includes chemical and mechanical engineering companies, a baby carriage manufacturer and a paper mill (Wolfsheck from Stora Enso). The value creation potential of these companies is revitalized by a dedicated team.
The Arques subsidiary Arquana International Print & Media AG focuses on the consolidation ("buy & build") of web offset and packaging printing companies. It already includes Colordruck (Pforzheim), J.P. Bachem (Cologne), Johler Druck (Neumünster), Wanfried Druck (Wanfried/D), Evry Rotatives (Paris) and Sochor Group (Zell am See/A), which together generate a turnover of 187 million euros. Farbendruck Weber is the largest and probably the most modern company in this group with over 50 million euros. The ambitious group aims to achieve a turnover of over EUR 500 million by 2008, to be the top 3 web offset printer in Germany and the top 5 in Europe.
Hans Joachim Laue
