KBA to market TPH presses in global pact

Koenig & Bauer AG and The Printers House have agreed to sell each other’s presses in selected markets.
Under terms of the agreement between the two press vendors, TPH will sell KBA’s presses on the Indian subcontinent while KBA sells TPH’s 2-by-1 Orient presses in the rest of the world.
TPH manufactures four different Orient models, with speeds ranging from 16,000 to 50,000 copies per hour. In addition to India, TPH has presses placed in China, Russia and the Middle East.
In the United States, TPH has one machine installed, a 30,000-copy-an-hour Orient Super press that was purchased in 2007 by Waccamaw Publishers Inc., which publishes three weekly newspapers in Horry County, S.C.
Christoph Müller, KBA’s executive vice president for web press sales, said the alliance will complement KBA’s product line. “We have complete trust in TPH, its products and people and expect it to be a significant alliance for newspaper and commercial web offset printers worldwide.”