Mann Roland is a company under the German MAN Group (MAN). The group mainly develops a variety of high-tech industries, such as aerospace technology and commercial vehicles. The MAN Group is Europe's leading market-leading major equipment manufacturer. Its core businesses include commercial vehicles, industrial services, printing machines, diesel engines and other specialized areas of the industrial equipment and construction markets. MAN Group (MAN) is an important member of the Global Fortune 500 companies, with 77,000 employees and a total turnover of more than RMB 1,187 trillion.

The origins of Man Roland can be traced back to more than 160 years ago. It began its development from a machinery factory in Augsburg, a small German city, and experienced the second industrial revolution in history ( After the expansion of the overall industry caused by the Industrial Revolution, which also stimulated the rapid economic development), Roland (ROLAND as a brand first appeared at the Turin Exposition in Italy in 1911, on the printing equipment of Faber & Schlecker) and Many other German companies at that time also became the biggest beneficiaries of the world's industrial revolution.

Hefeber & Schleicher of Offenbach, Augsburg & Nuremberg Maschinenbau of Augsburg, Erwin Grimm of Mainhausen, Mann-Miller Printing of Geisenheim Machinery Co., Ltd. and Plamag Company in Plauen, as the most important part in the development process of Man Roland Printing Group, were invested in the development of the group in 1911, 1920, 1988, 1990 and 1990 respectively.

Since July 1, 2006, Roland Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. no longer belongs to the MAN Group, but has become a joint venture between Allianz Insurance and the MAN Group.

Manroland is headquartered in Offenbach and Augsburg, Germany. It has 6,500 employees worldwide, its business scope spans nearly 250 countries around the world, and has more than 140 marketing and service offices. center. The web offset presses, sheet-fed offset presses and digital printing systems it produces are the main production equipment for publication printing, commercial printing and packaging printing. Manroland Group filed for bankruptcy on November 25, 2011.

Manroland printing presses and Roland printing presses are just different names for the same equipment, both manufactured by the Manroland Group.

Milestones in the development history of manroland

The history of manroland can be traced back to the origin of printing press manufacturing. Since the invention of the first automatic letterpress printing machine in 1845, manroland's development has Development process.

1845: Carl August Reichenbach of the Augsburg Printing Machine Works delivers the first automatic cylinder printing press to Nikolaus Hartmann’s printing factory in Augsburg.

1857: United Joint Stock Company is established and renamed Augsburg Maschinenfabrik.

1872: A newspaper printing plant is established - powered by steam boilers and steam engines.

1873: The first "continuous feed printing press" (that is, printing from a roll of paper) is displayed at the World's Fair in Vienna.

1889: The "United Machinery Manufacturing Company of Augsburg and Nuremberg" was established through a merger, and in 1908 it was renamed "United Machinery Company of Augsburg and Nuremberg" - MAN Company (MAN).

1911: The first ROLAND sheet-fed offset printing press was manufactured.