Manroland Mechatronic Systems in Plauen offers third-party customers the opportunity to expand their production capacity.

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.

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 André 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.

The company's product range includes small-, medium- and large-format sheet-fed and web-fed offset presses.