manroland Strong Commitment to the South East Asia region

August 5, 2010 (Germany) - manroland placed key printing experts and German engineers in the region.

In order to provide the solid support and our premium services for our valued 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. As there is Mr. Peter Bähr, Service Manager for Malaysia & Singapore and Mr. Sascha Renye, Lifecycle Manager printservices.

With the Master Craftsman Diploma, Mr. Peter Bähr, born in Germany, has 27 years experience in the printing industry. He previously held managerial positions in Heidelberg South Africa and Heidelberg Nigeria, as well as in Nampak South Africa. He joined in manroland as Service Manager for the Region Malaysia & Singapore on the 01of 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.

Another important printing expert, Mr. Sascha Renye, joined in manroland in January 2007, Headquarter Germany, as Area Services Manager, responsible for printservices, after sales solutions, training, support and structuring the Western European market. Now, Mr. Sascha Renye takes on the new post of Lifecycle Manager printservices, who is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, providing his strong support in the South East Asian Region. Mr. Sascha Renye will leverage his rich experience from Europe to the Asian Region broadening the customers' visions for more opportunities and solutions all around printservices. Together with the printservices team, he will provide the customers with the most suitable consultation advice ensuring the reliability, the best printing quality and productivity of their presses during the press lifecycle. In addition with the team, he will proactively conduct site visits to the customers to know more about the real needs of the customers and provide them with the tailored- made solutions, such as Upgrade solutions, Service solutions relating to "ProServ / TelePresence / Maintenance Manager" and ServiceKits.

Besides having the two printing experts in the region, to strengthen the restructuring and globalization of the service force, highly- skilled manroland engineers from Germany are already based in Kuala Lumpur, to add their on- site full support to the customers, as well as add valuable input towards training our local technical team. They will be mainly responsible for the inspections and special tasks on customer site, as well as supervising Installations and technical upgrades.

South East Asia Region is considered as one of the most important markets for the global printing and publishing industry. The placement of the two key printing experts and the experienced manroland German engineers in South East Asia shows the strong commitment of manroland to the region. With the great enhancement of staff force, manroland will provide more efficient and faster services for our customers. Based on our customers thorough knowledge, we will help to reduce costs on downtime, optimize maintenance and minimize running costs to increase productivity and quality. We are PRINT.

Your SEA manroland Team is looking forward to work together with you, our valued customer, to achieve the highest possible successes in the near future! As we are at your service, please feel free to contact us via: + 603 5569-1911. Your request is highly appreciated!

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Mr. Peter Bähr, Service Manager for Malaysia & Singapore.

Mr. Sascha Renye, Lifecycle Manager printservices.