German contract printer Heider Druck will add a fourth tower to its KBA Colora/Journal pressline, enabling the press to be split into two.

Joh Heider Verlag and associate company Heider Druck in Bergisch Gladbach have an eight-year old Colora – to be extended by a tower and console – and a KBA Journal installed in 2002.

The press line will be equipped to print up to 64 Berliner-format all-colour pages.

The contract extends a longstanding partnership with KBA which has included supply of a five-colour sheetfed press.

Established in 1889, Joh Heider Verlag is managed by the fourth generation of the founding family and after starting out as a newspaper house has developed into a versatile publishing, printing and media enterprise.

Popular supra-regional publications, such as the sport magazine kicker, are produced and finished in split editions week after week in flexible, but also very tight time frames. A book publishing portfolio covers business and social politics, regional interest, photography and art.

After the extension the press will comprise two separate and couplable 32-page sections with four Pastostar RC reelstands and the KBA Patras M reel-logistics system, two Journal and two Colora printing towers, two centrally-located folders as well as four EAE consoles.