- Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer ushered in the era of industrial printing with their invention of the cylinder printing press in 1812
- The company Schnellpressenfabrik Koenig & Bauer, founded in Oberzell near Würzburg in 1817, was the world's first printing press manufacturer
- For 200 years, Koenig & Bauer has driven innovation in press manufacture and leads the field in patent statistics
- High quality standards and flexible responses to market changes and customer wishes characterise the companies of Koenig & Bauer
- Koenig & Bauer possesses the most extensive know-how and the broadest product portfolio of all press manufacturers, with offerings for practically all segments of the print market
- Koenig & Bauer builds upon future-oriented structures and is thus ideally positioned in the growth markets of digital, special-purpose and packaging printing
- Koenig & Bauer is market and technology leader in
- banknote and security printing
- large-format sheetfed offset
- folding cartons, metal decorating and the printing of hollow glass containers
- newspaper printing
- Koenig & Bauer holds an attractive position in flexible packaging and in coding and marking solutions