Manroland Sheetfed production line running at full capacity

“Our production line in Germany is running at full capacity at least till next March.” That’s the positive declaration of Rafael Penuela, chief executive officer of Manroland Sheetfed, as he thanked customers worldwide for their support, as evidenced by the strong interest in the company’s high-performance presses. “Our factory has been very busy with fulfilling the orders,” says Penuela. According to him, the sales performance of the company has been on track despite the various new challenges facing the global printing market. Founded in 1871, the German Manroland group produced both web offset and sheetfed offset presses until it became insolvent in November 2011. In February 2012, the sheetfed division (known as Manroland Sheetfed), which is still based in Offenbach near Frankfurt, was purchased by the privately owned UK engineering group Langley Holdings. Essentially scaled down to produce perhaps 200 well-configured multicolor presses a year, the company has been run profitably since the acquisition by Langley. At a time when the entire offset press industry is reeling under the weight of over-capacity, it seems that…

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