Manufacturer of web offset printing systems for newspaper, illustration and packaging printing as well as engineering, service and contract manufacturing solutions.
manroland Goss web systems GmbH
AugsburgNew on Amplifa
About manroland Goss web systems
manroland Goss web systems GmbH, headquartered in Augsburg, is a manufacturer of web offset printing systems for newspaper, illustration and packaging printing. The company was founded in 2012 following the insolvency of manroland AG, when the web offset division was taken over by the Possehl Group, and merged in 2018 with the US manufacturer Goss International. Its portfolio includes System Solutions for highly automated printing and post-press systems, Engineered Solutions for mechanical, automation and closed-loop upgrades, Service Solutions with spare parts, TeleSupport and service level agreements, as well as e-commerce solutions. Through its sister company manroland web produktionsgesellschaft mbH, the company also performs contract manufacturing of precision workpieces on state-of-the-art machine tools as well as electrical assembly for industrial customers. The company employs more than 1000 people worldwide, around 650 of them at the Augsburg site, and generated revenue of just under 300 million euros in 2018. The company's roots go back to Augsburg's high-speed press production of 1845.
- Site
- Augsburg
- Processes
- Web offset printing presses (manufacture/printing systems for newspaper, illustration and, Contract manufacturing of precision workpieces with state-of-the-art machine tools, Assembly of electrical assemblies / electrical assembly, Engineered Solutions: mechanical, automation and closed-loop upgrades for printing presses, Digital Finishing Solutions (FoldLine folding unit, FormerLine book block solution), InlineDensity Control smart (IDCsmart) colour control system – retrofit for printing presses, System Solutions for printing presses and post-press processing, Engineered Solutions (mechanical and automation upgrades, closed-loop)
- Certificates
- DIN EN ISO 9001, ISO 9001
- Founded
- 2012 (pred
- Employees
- over 1000 worldwide,
- Industries
- Printing press manufacturing, Newspaper printing, Illustration web offset / Commercial Printing, Packaging printing, Digital Finishing
- 01
Engineering and design
- 02
Contract manufacturing of precision workpieces
- 03
Electrical assembly
- 04
Assembly of printing and post-press systems
- 05
Service, spare parts and retrofits
Locations
Augsburg
DEHeadquarters; production, assembly and development of printing presses
- Web offset printing presses (e.g. VARIOMAN, GEOMAN, COLORMAN)
- FoldLine folding unit
- FormerLine book block solution
- APL AutoPlateLoading
Industries
Processes & technical limits
| Processes | Tolerance | Max. part | Weight | Lot size | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web offset printing presses (manufacture/printing systems for newspaper, illustration andMechanical engineering/print technology | – | – | – | – | – |
| Contract manufacturing of precision workpieces with state-of-the-art machine toolsMachining | – | – | – | – | – |
| Assembly of electrical assemblies / electrical assemblyAssembly | – | – | – | – | – |
| Engineered Solutions: mechanical, automation and closed-loop upgrades for printing pressesEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Digital Finishing Solutions (FoldLine folding unit, FormerLine book block solution)Assembly | – | – | – | – | – |
| InlineDensity Control smart (IDCsmart) colour control system – retrofit for printing pressesEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
9 Anlagen & Maschinen
| Machine | Manufacturer / model | Quantity | Working area | Year built | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web offset printing press (web offset, packaging printing) | manroland Goss VARIOMAN | – | – | – | – |
| 17-roller offset rotary press | manroland COLORMAN (62 printing units) | – | – | 1974 | Augsburg |
| Newspaper printing press | manroland GEOMAN | – | 250 m long (installation at O'Globo, Rio de Janeiro) | 1996 | Augsburg |
| Offset press with integrated imaging/erasure of the printing plate | manroland DICOweb | – | – | 2004 | Augsburg |
| Web offset press (illustration web offset) | manroland LITHOMAN (60,000 cylinder revolutions/h) | – | – | 1986 | – |
| Automatic printing plate change system (robotics) | manroland APL (AutoPlateLoading) | – | – | 2007 | – |
| Folding unit (Digital Finishing) | manroland FoldLine | – | – | 2013 | Augsburg |
| Book block solution (Digital Finishing) | manroland FormerLine | – | – | 2013 | Augsburg |
| High-speed letterpress rotary press (30,000 cylinder revolutions/h) | Maschinenfabrik Augsburg | – | – | 1958 | Augsburg |
Additional services
Reference customers
Quality
The sister company manroland web produktionsgesellschaft mbH manufactures precision workpieces with state-of-the-art machine tools and is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001; for web systems itself, no directly documented certification is available.
| Evidence | Augsburg |
|---|---|
| ISO 9001 |
History
- 1845
Origin: Reichenbach'sche/Sander'sche Maschinenfabrik (Carl August Reichenbach, Carl Buz) delivers the first high-speed press
- 1873
First German rotary press for continuous paper at the World Exhibition in Vienna
- 1898
Renamed Vereinigte Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbaugesellschaft Nürnberg A.G. (M.A.N. from 1908)
- 1921
First web offset press at the Augsburg plant
- 1958
First high-speed letterpress rotary press with 30,000 cylinder revolutions per hour
- 1974
COLORMAN: first 17-roller offset rotary press with 62 printing units, at that time the largest web offset press in Europe
- 1996
GEOMAN for O'Globo, Rio de Janeiro – 250 m long newspaper printing press
- 2004
Production launch of DICOweb with integrated imaging and erasure of the printing plate
- 2007
APL AutoPlateLoading: fully automated plate change via robotics
- 2012
Insolvency of manroland AG; Possehl Group takes over the web offset division → manroland web systems GmbH
- 2013
Digital Finishing Solutions: assembly of the FoldLine folding unit and the FormerLine book block solution in Augsburg
- 2017
Spin-off of manroland web produktionsgesellschaft mbH
- 2018
Merger with Goss International to form manroland Goss web systems (completed 17.08.2018); takeover of parts of Harland Simon and GWS
- 2019
Spin-off of Grapho Metronic Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH; Franz Kriechbaum becomes Managing Director