In an effort to better serve its
customers in North America, MAN Roland is combining its commercial web and
newspaper web areas into one division.
All North American sales, service
and project management for web products will now be under MAN Roland’s new web
division.
Heading up the new unit is Vincent
Lapinski, who was promoted to senior vice president of the web division. He
previously served as vice president of sales for MAN Roland.
Also part of the division are Jerry
Clark, vice president of commercial web sales; Axel Conrads, vice president of
web service and parts; John Evans, director of web project management; and Craig
Simon, director of web sales support.
MAN Roland is also decentralizing
its North American operations to provide customers in the region with better
service. The move includes giving the company’s six locations on the continent
more autonomy and more leeway in how they meet customer’s needs.
Flint Ink alliance
Flint Ink and MAN Roland entered
into an alliance to develop complementary technologies.
At Print ’01 in Chicago this
month, MAN Roland will use Flint Ink on presses running in its booth, and Flint
Ink will have demonstrations of the company’s Single Fluid Ink concept on a
Roland 200 press.
Pape + Partner and MAN Roland
announced that the two companies are intensifying their cooperation to include a
partnership in development and sales. PPI and MAN Roland have been working
together for two years under the title of PrintNet, which has included
integration of MAN Roland’s Pecom presetting with PPI’s workflow for
digitized production.
The two companies now hope to
expand PrintNet to include networking of printing companies and integration of
other vendor systems into the PrintNet workflow.