John Harrison, digital and finishing equipment sales manager, UK and Ireland
Confirming its expansion into the industry’s wider marketplace, Komori UK has appointed John Harrison as its digital and finishing equipment sales manager for the UK and Ireland.
Mr Harrison joins from HP, where he covered the same region as account manager for the folding carton segment. For the previous three years he was sales manager, converting, for Friedheim International, focused on attracting new brands into the company’s carton finishing portfolio. His 20 years’ prior experience with global suppliers to the folding carton and finishing markets included several years with Heidelberg in Australia as its packaging product manager.
‘I’m delighted to be spearheading UK and Ireland sales of Komori’s inkjet digital printing and post-press systems,’ commented Mr Harrison. ‘The ability to print on just about all paper-based and plastics substrates without any need to prime the material opens up whole new marketing options.’
UK director of sheetfed sales, Steve Turner, said, ‘We’re so pleased to bring John Harrison onto our sales management team. With increasingly lively interest and enquiries on our digital systems and the corporation’s commitment to expand further into digital and finishing, it’s most timely that we’ve been able to recruit such an experienced and highly respected manager and we’re certain that John will help us grow sales of our existing and future products.’
