Durst has appointed Christian Harder and Andrea Riccardi as dual leaders of its Large Format Printing (LFP) segment. Previously this segment was split, with web-fed printing development in Brixen, Italy, and flatbed printing at the Lienz, Austria production site.
Both appointees have been with the company for over 20 years and have helped shape the evolutionary stages of Durst’s inkjet technology. Mr Harder will serve as global sales director, having previously been responsible for sales in Eastern Europe and Latin America in the LFP segment. Mr Riccardi is the new head of product management, following many years working in direct sales in the Italian LFP market.
‘The re-organisation in the LFP segment brings together the building blocks we set in 2017 with the introduction of the P5 technology platform, the expansion of the Lienz and Brixen customer centres and the new headquarters in Brixen,’ said Christoph Gamper, CEO of the Durst Group.
‘The new dual leadership has my fullest confidence and the best pre-requisites for further developing the segment and consolidating our position as market leader. By concentrating the management function in the group, we are also paving the way for optimal networking and integration with the relevant areas in development, software and services. The Lienz location will also benefit from the cross-segment technology transfer,’ he added.
The business unit will now be controlled from the Durst headquarters in Brixen, northern Italy.
