founded 1979 sheetfed 1871 webfed 1845 headquarters offenbach am main deutschland key people gerd finkbeiner chief executive officer revenue eur 942 million number of employees 7 147 as at 2010 website www.manroland.com manroland ag manufactures newspaper web offset presses commercial web offset presses and sheetfed offset presses for commercial publications and packaging printing . the company has production facilities in offenbach am main and augsburg . manroland mechatronic systems in plauen offers third party customers the opportunity to expand their production capacity . together with subsidiary companies manroland ag employs around 7 000 people worldwide as at 2010 . contents 1 history 1.1 the history of manroland in key points 2 products 3 coordinates of manroland facilities 4 references 5 external links history edit history of manroland type roland favorit rf01 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 automatic cylinder press to nikolaus hartmann s printing plant in augsburg . besides the automatic cylinder press the 19th century saw another innovation in printing press construction and a newspaper publisher was behind this as well . around 1850 the question was being asked whether the rotary press principle was suitable for letterpress printing . john walter iii publisher of the times in london commissioned the two engineers j.c. macdonald and john calverly to develop and build the world s first rotary press for newspaper printing . this became known as the walter press . in june 1872 maschinenfabrik augsburg sent its development head gustav bissinger to england . fact finding visits by german engineers to factories and workshops in england the leading industrial nation of that era were not uncommon in those days . after that the first rotary press from maschinenfabrik augsburg was quickly designed . although it also worked on the walter principle it was smaller and lighter and easier to operate . in may 1873 it was presented at the world fair in vienna . two years earlier in 1871 the two engineers louis faber and adolf schleicher founded the company faber & schleicher as an association for production of automatic lithographic presses in offenbach am main . this city has played a very important part in the history of lithography because it was here that alois senefelder built his first lithographic stone presses for the andr music publishing company . faber & schleicher built their first automatic litho stone press in 1879 the albatros which had an output of 600 to 700 sheets per hour . along with the experience and know how gained from lithography as well as printing on zinc and other metal plates the real breakthrough came with the emergence of offset printing at the beginning of the 20th century . the inventors ira washington rubel and caspar herrmann took over the indirect printing principle known from printing on metal plate and developed this new process between 1904 and 1907 . faber & schleicher s specialization in offset printing began in 1911 with the model roland the world s first sheetfed rotary offset press which was awarded a gold medal at the world fair in turin . the name roland was chosen because faber & schleicher can hardly be pronounced in english speaking regions . the history of manroland in key points edit web fed offset lithographic press at speed the history of manroland goes back to the origins of printing press manufacturing . it begins for man roland in 1845 with the first automatic letterpress machine . 1845 carl august reichenbach from augsburger druckmaschinenbau delivers the first automatic cylinder press to nikolaus hartmann s printing plant in augsburg . 1857 a joint stock company was formed and renamed maschinenfabrik augsburg . 1872 a complete newspaper printing plant was set up with steam boiler and steam engine . 1873 the first machine for printing continuous paper i.e. from a reel was presented at the world fair in vienna . 1889 through an amalgamation the vereinigte maschinenfabrik augsburg und maschinenbaugesellschaft n rnberg a.g. augsburg was founded and then in 1908 renamed maschinenfabrik augsburg n rnberg ag man ag . 1911 the first roland sheetfed offset press was built . 1921 the first prototype of a three cylinder web offset press in berliner format was developed . 1922 a new single color offset press the klein roland 00 was presented which could print up to 5000 sheets per hour . 1931 development of a rotary press that could print 25 000 16 page newspapers per hour . second world war 1951 a four color sheetfed offset press the ultra was presented at the first drupa trade show . 1960 three quarters of the total volume of all german daily newspapers were being produced on presses from augsburg . 1972 introduction of the roland 800 the first sheetfed offset press with an integrated color control system that permitted a printing speed of 10 000 sheets per hour . 1974 the biggest rotary offset press in europe was built in augsburg a 17 web colorman with 62 printing units . 1979 man roland druckmaschinen ag offenbach main was founded . this company was formed by the amalgamation of roland offset und maschinenfabrik faber and schleicher with augsburger m.a.n. druck and maschinenbau . 1986 introduction of the lithoman web offset press with a speed of 60 000 cylinder rph and electronic control console technology . 1987 mavo the first motorola 6800 chip based press remote technology enters the us in asheville nc . zravko krovinovic and his team gave with augsburg s hard and software departments creations birth to the new technology in the us . the colorman 75 was upgrated in 2008 . the us newspaper decline shut the operation down in 2009 . 1990 pecom control console technology was introduced . together with a new automation concept for the medium format roland 700 this enabled speeds of up to 15 000 sheets per hour to be achieved . 1990 with the reunification of germany kba takes the control of veb planeta the biggest offset printing machines builder in the soviet bloc . 1995 the lithoman was presented at drupa with a new press concept for commercial web offset printing . with a host of additional components it can be extended to become a multifunctional production system for all requirements . the first intranet based remote trouble shooting systems show great cost savings for many customers . at the same drupa show in d sseldorf the roland 900 a large format sheetfed offset press also made its debut . due to a worldwide recession in the printing industry man roland experienced a severe crisis in the years 2001 till 2004 . in the meantime manroland realigned to future . in 2002 manroland acquired a controlling interest in the software company ppi media gmbh . ppi media headquartered in hamburg serves customers worldwide and develops workflow solutions for automated planning and production processes in publishing and printing . ppi media was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 150 staff at its offices in hamburg kiel and chicago . following extensive restructuring the company returned to profitability in 2005 . in january 2006 man sold the majority interest in its subsidiary company man roland druckmaschinen ag to the investor allianz capital partners gmbh acp allianz private equity itself a subsidiary company of allianz ag . the shares are now held by an investment company in which man holds 35 % and acp 65 % . as well as acquiring the shares the investment company also took over the entire business activities and all subsidiaries including existing liabilities . the intention is to further develop the world s second largest manufacturer of printing systems and go public with it in a few years time . the company sees this as a good opportunity to increase its lead in printing technology . october 2006 . new technology was launched in mainz the birthplace of johannes gutenberg directdrive . directly driven plate cylinders enable makeready time to be reduced by 60 % . may 2008 man roland druckmaschinen ag becomes manroland ag . the new logo was presented on 28 may 2008 at the drupa press conference in d sseldorf . june 2009 with the us economy down and under manroland usa faces major lay offs . 2010 introducing of autoprint stands for the vision of a printing press that at the push of one button one touch brings the highest degree of automation of offset printing . manroland already leads the field in automation of newspaper and commercial web offset presses and has now implemented the concept in sheetfed offset as well . 2010 manroland markets inkjet based digital printing systems from oc . in the same year the first 96 pages webfed printing system lithoman was sold . 2011 in addition with manroland industrial services the company offers contract staffing with highly qualified technical personnel . november 2011 manroland files for insolvency . 1 january 2012 18th the web division in augsburg is sold to the german l. possehl & co. mbh and renamed into manroland web systems . february 2012 10th the sheetfed division in offenbach along with all real estate including around 1 000 000 sq. ft. of manufacturing facilities in offenbach and nearby mainhausen and with over 40 sales and service subsidiaries worldwide takes up business as manroland sheetfed systems purchased and led by the british langley holdings plc. during the insolvency around 1 000 employees had been dismissed at the offenbach headquarters and manufacturing plant . march 2012 30th manroland sheetfed and landa corporation announce a strategic partnership whereby landa will provide manroland sheetfed with its nanographic printingtm technology . january 2013 plamag closes the doors as no buyer is found nov 2014 5th the roland 700 evolution is introduced . products edit the company s product range includes small medium and large format sheetfed offset presses . a new 36 52 00 small format press was introduced at drupa 2008 newspaper and commercial web offset presses printvalue services consumable materials and consulting coordinates of manroland facilities edit location offenbach am main 50 06 46 n 8 48 18 e 50.112836 n 8.804929 e 50.112836 ; 8.804929 offenbach location augsburg 48 22 57 n 10 53 23 e 48.38245 n 10.88985 e 48.38245 ; 10.88985 augsburg location plauen 50 31 41 n 12 06 41 e 50.52800 n 12.11150 e 50.52800 ; 12.11150 plauen references edit sheenagh matthews ; karin matussek 2011 11 26 . manroland files for biggest insolvency in germany in 2 years . bloomberg businessweek . archived from the original on 2011 11 27 . retrieved 2011 11 27 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to manroland . manroland ag files for insolvency manroland press database a detailed overview of all man roland manroland presses since 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