Philipp Zimmermann ist als neuer Vice President Sales für den weltweiten Vertrieb der Business Unit Koenig & Bauer Digital & Webfed verantwortlich
Philipp Zimmermann has taken charge of the global sales of web offset and digital printing presses by Koenig & Bauer Digital & Webfed with effect from 1 August 2022. One focus of his tasks as vice-president of sales will be the continued expansion of the market presence of the high-performance digital printing press RotaJET in the packaging, decor, and book printing segments.
Zimmermann, who has prior experience and know-how in the field of special machine engineering Philipp Zimmerma,nn plans to further consolidate the close business relationships with commercial and newspaper printers.
Zimmermann worked for KraussMaffei Technologies, a leading manufacturer of machinery for the plastics industry, for the past 10 years. He joined the company as area sales manager for Asia, and was appointed product and sales manager for composite fiber and surface technologies for reaction process machinery in 2014.
In 2018, he became the head of the business unit that manufactures special machines for lightweight construction and high-end surface technologies, as well as process and system solutions for the manufacturing of industrial components using polyurethane and other reactive materials. for the past two years, he was responsible for the global sales of reaction process machinery and achieved significant market growth in his segment during this time.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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