IN-PUBLISH WebDesk: KBA de Colombia strengthens... -
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Published on: 1/17/2006
Last Visited: 6/7/2006
Christian Piwek, managing director of KBA de Colombia, with his assistant Gladys Herrera (left) and Empera Rinc,n (spare parts and accounting)
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The KBA office in Columbia is to be managed by Christian Piwek and his team.
After four years as sales and service manager at KBA-Brasil in Soo Paulo, Christian Piwek has now returned to his home city Bogota to take up a new challenge.
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Christian Piwek was born in Bogota/Columbia in 1969.He was educated at the local German School (Colegio Andino) and went on to study electrical engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.
In 1996, he joined KBA at its Frankenthal facility as an installation engineer for the company's Compacta presses.Since then, he has supervised the installation and commissioning of practically all the commercial web presses to go into South America.Following up his position as installation management assistant in Frankenthal, he was later delegated to Brazil to serve as sales and service manager.As the new managing director of KBA de Colombia, Christian Piwek is now to establish the KBA office in Bogota and will be contributing his extensive knowledge of the web and sheetfed offset business to the benefit of the company's Columbian customers.
Modern KBA press technology also in sheetfed offset: Fernado Quijano Forero, president of D'Vinni (left), together with the managing director of the KBA office in Columbia, Christian Piwek, at the newly installed four-colour Rapida 162a