KBA appointed Jan Korenc as managing director for Polish sales and service subsidiary

Oct 26, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. After six and a half years at the helm of Warsaw-based KBA Polska and, following its change of name in March 2011 KBA CEE (= KBA Central Eastern Europe), Oliver Becker has taken up a new position in northern Germany and made way for Jan Korenc who will step into his shoes at KBA’s Polish sales and service subsidiary on 1 November, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network. Jan Korenc previously headed the highly-successful Prague branch serving the Czech Republic and Slovakia. As sole managing director of the entire enterprise his sphere of competence will now also include Poland, a core market for KBA. Member of the KBA board and chairman of KBA CEE Ralf Sammeck thanked Oliver Becker for his substantial contribution to the company’s success and wished Jan Korenc all the best for his new expanded role. 34 experienced employees at the Warsaw and Prague branches will assist Jan Korenc in serving sheetfed and web offset customers in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He also aims to intensify co-operation among KBA CEE’s service engineers and press instructors in Poland and the Czech Republic. As managing director of KBA CEE’s branch in Prague which was founded 18 months ago, Jan Korenc has also successfully built up an efficient service organisation for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Along with several small- and half-format Rapida 66 and Rapida 75 presses, a number of larger KBA presses have also come online this year in the region: a long Rapida 106 double-coater press at Pharming in Varnsdorf, a Rapida 105 with coater at P.O.S in Turnov and a four-colour Rapida 145 at Typos in Pilsen. Even though investment in commercial and newspaper web presses has been relatively poor in central eastern Europe, KBA CEE has also to take care of a raft of web press customers. It also distributes the small-format Genius 52UV built by KBA MePrint and will soon be adding the RotaJET 76 high-output digital press launched at Drupa. The Koenig & Bauer Group is one of the largest press manufacturers worldwide, with the broadest product range in the industry, and a key supplier to the global media industry. KBA’s core competence is the development and manufacture of technologically innovative yet cost-effective printing systems and peripherals. The parent company is Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) with facilities in Würzburg, Radebeul, Frankenthal and Trennfeld (all in Germany).