New MD Appointment at Manroland China

Offenbach 16 December 2013. Manroland Sheetfed GmbH announced today that it has appointed Mr Kurt Herrmann Managing Director of its Greater China business, effective 1 January, 2014. Mr Adam Yuen will step down from the position at the end of this year.

Married with two daughters, German born engineering graduate Mr Herrmann, (49) has been permanently based in the China region with fellow Langley Holdings PLC company Claudius Peters since 1994, becoming Managing Director of that company in 2000.

Speaking recently at a dinner in Offenbach for the management of Manroland Sheetfed’s more than 40 subsidiaries from around the world, Mr Rafael Penuela, CEO of Manroland Sheetfed GmbH, welcomed Mr Herrmann to the Manroland Sheetfed group and acknowledged Mr Yuen's contribution to the press builder's considerable success in China.

Manroland China was established in 1972. The Manroland Sheetfed China group is located in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Taiwan, and employs over 200 people.

Mr Kurt Herrmann, takes over as Managing Director,
Manroland Sheetfed, China, on 1 January, 2014

About Manroland Sheetfed

Manroland Sheetfed is a leading global producer of offset printing presses for commercial, packaging, publishing applications and related technologies. The company has its own subsidiaries in over 40 countries covering Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia.

Founded in 1871 on the finest traditions of German engineering excellence, the name Manroland is now a global watchword for quality, precision and supreme reliability in end-to-end offset printing solutions. Manroland Sheetfed is a wholly owned subsidiary of Langley Holdings plc, a privately owned UK engineering group whose capital equipment forms the core of many industrial and commercial processes around the world.