Interesting ‹FAG under licence› proof press

John Cornelisse from the Enkidu-Press in The Netherlands contacted me some time ago about ‹The biggest FAG proof press› he has ever seen was in Poland – it should be something like a 85 x 115cm maximum printing form. He also gave me the email address of Pawel Tryzno, the owner of this press.

First I was kind of confused since the biggest model according to FAG Lausanne was the Control 900 – which has a maximum form size of 64 x 90cm. So I contacted Pawel & Jadwiga Tryzno of the ‹Muzeum Ksiazki Artystycznej› in Lodz, Poland. They sent me an image of that very huge press. And to my disbelief it was actually labeled with FAG.

The model didn't look too much like a FAG press – but still the only label found on it was a FAG. So I contacted Mr. Orville (General Manager at FAG Lausanne) and Mr. Grebien (Former Chief Engineer at FAG Manufactury Avenches) and they both confirmed that this was a Korrex press (Max Simmel Werk, Germany). So how come that this press was labeled as a FAG?
 
Mr. Grebien told me that FAG once had a deal with Korrex that if someone would order a press that had to be bigger than the FAG Control 900, they would deliver a Korrex Hamburg Kraft (thats the name of this model) and label it with a FAG plaquette. Ha!

I made this new category ‹FAG under licence› – see the registration of Pawel Tryzno's press here