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International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2008-2010

KBA users tops again in quality competition

This year the benchmarking competition for membership of the coveted International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2008-2010 attracted a record198 applications. The number of countries participating was also higher than ever before. Fifty submissions, roughly one-quarter of the total, were approved by an international juryof experts to receive this coveted accolade for quality excellence in colour newspaper printing sponsored by Ifra, the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) andthe PANPA (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association).

Three Cortina users among the 50 best

The winners included three KBA Cortina users:CIE Lausanne (24heures), Freiburger Druck (Badische Zeitung) and Rheinpfalz Verlag und Druckerei (Die Rheinpfalz). The high success rate of 75% at the first attempt is indicative of the enormous quality potential this ultra-compact waterless press brings to newspaper production.

More than 30% of top places go to KBA customers

16of the top 50 places, or 32% of all successful submissions, went to European, Middle East and Asian newspaper publishers operating presses from KBA. The National-Zeitung und Basler Nachrichten in Basel, Switzerland, won a place for the fourth time in succession with a contract title,Coopzeitung. Polish printer Agora Poligrafia in Tychywas one of the first time lucky withMetro, and gained a place for the fourth time in succession with Gazeta Wyborcza. The same title also won Agora’s Warsaw operation membership for the third time, while its Pila plant became a new member with both Gazeta Wyborczaand Metro.

Awarded membership for the third year running wereZurich-based Tamedia’s Tages-Anzeiger, Singapore Press Holdings’The Straits Timesand The Business Times,and a regional German title, theHeilbronner Stimme. Among the top 50 for the second timewere Singapore Press Holdings’Berita Harianand Lianhe ZaoBao, FAZ-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’sFrankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and a Dutch title, De Stentor, which is printed by Wegener Nieuwsdruk Gelderland in Apeldoorn.

Prestigious German daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungand an Israeli title, Yedioth Ahronoth, printed by Yedioth Communication Press in Park Bar-Lev,were among the first-time members of this exclusive international club.

Congratulations to all the winners on this outstanding achievement.

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Printed in waterless offset on the compact KBA Cortina,24 heures, Badische Zeitungand Die Rheinpfalzwere given high marks by the independent jury

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KBA Cortina user Freiburger Druck was among the top-ranking entries at the first attempt with itsBadische Zeitung

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National-Zeitung andBasler Nachrichten of Switzerland gained membership of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club for the fourth time in succession with Coopzeitung, printed on theKBA Commander pictured here