New Managing Director for manroland Brasil

Offenbach 10 August 2012. manroland sheetfed has announced Bruno Garcia as the new managing director of its manroland Brasil operation.

Garcia, who has a background in mechanical engineering, joined German machine builder Claudius Peters, a subsidiary of Langley Holdings plc, in 2003 at their Brasil facility undertaking senior roles in project management and sales until successfully taking over as managing director three years ago.

manroland Brasil was formed in 2009 and today employs around 26 people. As well as new offset litho press sales in emerging markets, manroland has been concentrating on service and performance optimization of its installed base in high end commercial and packaging applications.

Garcia will continue to head Claudius Peters and manroland in Brasil and both companies will shortly relocate and share a new large freehold building located in Sao Paulo recently purchased by Langley Holdings plc.

Garcia, 32, is married with one son and in his spare time enjoys spending time with his family, reading about technology and travelling.

Bruno Garcia is new MD of manroland Brasil

About manroland sheetfed

manroland sheetfed GmbH (www.manroland.com)began trading on 10 February 2012, following the acquisition of the sheetfed division of the insolvent manroland AG by British industrialist Tony Langley and Langley Holdings PLC ( www.langleyholdings.com). manroland sheetfed employs around 1000 people at the HQ in Offenbach, Germany and over 2000 staff worldwide in over 40 subsidiaries.

About Claudius Peters

The name Claudius Peters has been synonymous with the global cement and gypsum industry for over a century. Founded in 1906, the eponymous company became part-owned by the British Babcock organization in the 1950’s and was owned by them outright from the 1970’s until being acquired by Langley Holdings PLC (www.langleyholding.com) in 2002. Today the Claudius Peters group serves a wider market and has subsidiaries in the USA, Brasil, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Romania, India, Singapore and China and employs over 600 people worldwide. www.claudiuspeters.com