Philipp Zimmermann has been appointed as head of global sales at Koenig & Bauer Digital and Webfed.

His role is to expand the market presence of the company’s digital printing press RotaJet in the packaging, decor and book printing segments. At the same time, Mr Zimmermann plans to further consolidate business relationships with commercial and newspaper printers.

Mr Zimmermann worked for KraussMaffei Technologies, a manufacturer of machinery for the plastics industry, for the past 10 years. He joined the company as area sales manager for Asia and was appointed product and sales manager for composite fibre and surface technologies for reaction process machinery in 2014.

In 2018, he became the head of the business unit that manufactures special machines for lightweight construction and high-end surface technologies, as well as process and system solutions for the manufacturing of industrial components using polyurethane and other reactive materials. For the past two years, Mr Zimmermann was responsible for the global sales of reaction process machinery.

Stefan Segger, previously vice president of sales for the business unit, will in future focus entirely on webfed digital printing.