manroland AG - Personnel: new managing director at manroland India

Anil Bhatia is to follow Raj Nargis

Anil Bhatia (47) is looking forward to bringing new momentum to increasing manroland’s growth in India. He will be taking over as managing director of this manroland Market Organization starting in September 2010, as the successor of Raj Nargis, who is going into retirement.

The new managing director Anil Bhatia has more than 25 years of international experience in the marketing and sales of investment goods. Mr. Bhatia studied Engineering and also completed a postgraduate degree in Business Administration. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Anil Bhatia says: “My new team and I want to continue manroland’s successful history in India. This is why we will be offering our customers the exact products and services they need to prosper in a competitive field that is oriented towards growth. We stand by our customers as a professional partner to assist them throughout the entire service life of their presses. I am truly looking forward to this new challenge.” manroland is present in the Indian market since decades. In 2007 manroland opened its own subsidiary in India with headquarters in New Delhi and offices in Mumbai and Chennai.

The Indian market has been booming over the past few years. The government has been fighting against illiteracy for the past ten years and the success of this is evident. Approximat... [read more]
 

UPM AND WALLPAPER* MAGAZINE'S HANDMADE PARTNERSHIP

UPM and leading design bible Wallpaper* magazine have collaborated on an innovative project for the magazine's August issue. Hailed as its most ambitious issue to date, the magazine has been produced with no less than eight UPM paper grades with 21,000 subscriber generated digital covers on UPM Digi Finesse.

The Wallpaper* Handmade issue features unique designs for furniture, fitting, foodstuffs, fashion and much more. From cover to cover, Wallpaper* Handmade is a complete celebration of craftsmanship. Through working closely UPM, the issue also includes an A5 sketchbook documenting how several of the designs evolved. There is even a paper house to cut out and assemble, courtesy of architect Ryuji Nakamura.

UPM's Head of Magazine Publisher Sales for the UK, Dino Vasiliou, said: "Being offered a creative opportunity with such a renowned magazine is extremely exciting for UPM. This has allowed us to see the whole process rather than just paper supply – a unique experience."

He added: "We're delighted with the finished magazine. The feedback we've received already from the market is really encouraging. Working on such a creative and sometimes challenging ... [read more]

Half-year figures for Koenig & Bauer

Heading back to the black

  • Jump in orders for both sheetfed and web presses 
  • Higher level of capacity utilisation 
  • Return to full-time work at most plants 
  • Good liquidity, no net debt 
  • Outlook: sales of €1.1bn-plus and higher pre-tax profit 
Following the release of preliminary figures on 20 July revealing a perceptible upswing in the print media industry and a year-on-year increase in new orders of almost 39%, German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has now fleshed out th... [read more]

manroland AG - Strong commitment to South East Asia

manroland places key German printing experts in the region

In order to provide the solid support and premium services for customers in South East Asia, manroland made it a point to place two experienced printing experts in manroland Malaysia, the headquarters of manroland South East Asia region in Kuala Lumpur: Peter Bähr as Service Manager for Malaysia and Singapore, and Sascha Renye as Lifecycle Manager printservices.

Peter Bähr has 27 years experience in the printing industry. He joined manroland as Service Manager for the Region Malaysia and Singapore on 1 June 2010, with the main responsibility to structure and globalize manroland services further into the South East Asia Region and to provide prompt, professional, efficient, and cost effective services for all our customers.

Sascha Renye joined manroland headquarters Germany in January 2007 as Area Services Manager responsible for after sales soluti... [read more]

PrintCity Alliance – Partnership with ABRO for Web Printing Knowledge Sharing in Brazil

The PrintCity Alliance, a grouping of over 20 independent suppliers to the global printing & packaging industry, has announced a partnership with ABRO, the Associação Brasileira de Empresas com Rotativas Offset. 

This cooperation was first communicated at an Expoprint news conference in São Paulo recently. PrintCity members Sun Chemical, manroland, UPM, Cofely and partner Dalim are hosting a web offset session on Technical Visions of the Future of Print during the August 18 Annual Conference of ABRO, the Association of Web Offset Printers in Brazil.   According to Eduardo Gândara Costa of Abril (President at ABRO), this new partnership offers Brazilian web offset printers unique access to latest process knowledge. He commented, “We are happy to connect ABRO’s in depth knowledge in the web offset mark... [read more]

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