Both manroland web and the separately-owned manroland sheetfed business are flat out building presses. The companies' Australasian sales partner says both have experienced a resurgence in new press orders this year.

"New business is at levels not seen for many years, which is great news for manroland and the industry," says manroland Australasia managing director Steve Dunwell. "Their factories are at full capacity."

Since the start of 2015, manroland web has won new orders for presses and service upgrades in excess of 100 million Euros, with all segments of the business successful.

A number of Lithoman and Rotoman commercial presses - including three 96-page Lithoman press lines - are destined for ten different countries. Colorman e:line, Uniset and Cromoman newspaper presses are on order to be installed in eight countries, and FoldLine and FormerLine digital finishing systems are destined for seven different countries. On the sheetfed side, more than 200 print units have been sold in the last three months.

"The market is now ready and active for the industrial digital printing with digital inkjet presses and manroland web system FoldLine and FormerLine finishing solutions," says Dunwell.

He says that while no new ANZ orders are included, web presses with a value of 50 million Euros were sold in the region from 2012-2014... 100 per cent of the new commercial web market in that period. "Our worldwide market share is increasing, 36 per cent in 2014 and is climbing year on year," he says.

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