- MAN Roland
manroland is a German sheetfed and web press manufacturer. In June, 2008, the company name changed from formerly MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG to manroland AG.
In 1844, Carl August Reichenbach, nephew of the founder of KBA, Friedrich Koenig, and Carl Buz established the “Reichenbach’sche Maschinenfabrik” (Reichenbach`s machine factory) in
Augsburg . Six month later the two printing press pioneers supplied their first “Schnellpresse“ (fast press) to the “Augsburger Druckerei” (Augsburg`s printing plant) of Nikolaus Hartmann. manroland has a museum in Augsburg, with the earliest diesel engines, presses, trucks and other historical pieces.Since the early 1980s, MAN Roland has sold products in the US after buying Wood, which had bought the
Hoe Printing Press Company earlier.A manroland web user group was formed under manufacturer sponsorship in the US, and in 1998 EEUC (the Electronic Equipment User Club) started to offer help for the graphic industry struggling with the
Denglisch of these and other Swiss, Austrian and German products. The club mentor can be reached at doc-hecky@juno.com for further information. MANRUG founded in 2003, focuses on users of manroland printing presses in North and South America, with an annual convention.In 2006, the parent company
MAN AG sold a majority stake of the manroland printing press company to a holding company, (ACP Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG Nr. 4a), which it owns jointly withAllianz Capital Partners (ACP). The split is 35% and 65% shares ownership respectively, with an eventual stock-exchange listing as the target.manroland owns a number of subsidiaries world wide, which provide sales, service and development for presses, including workflow software
ppi Media, GmbH , strategic planningEurografica , etc.The most famous Roland presses would probably be the Favorit, Parva, Ultra and Rekord; these were early presses, which would have been considered very large at the time. Roland also were the first presses to have two printing units in one printing tower (common impression cylinder or five-cylinder design).
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen wanted to merge with MAN Roland in the early 1990s.ee also
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Muller Martini
*Heidelberger Druckmaschinen External links
* [http://www.manroland.us.com US website]
* [http://www.manroland.de German website]
* [http://www.manrug.org MAN Roland Users Group (MANRUG)]
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