Gerd Finkbeiner, Chairman of the Executive Board of manroland AG, will address a general session of the Web Offset Association’s Offset & Beyond conference on Monday, May 4.  Mr. Finkbeiner will speak on the need for  printing companies in North America and Europe to raise the bar on performance in all areas of production.  The 35-minute session will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and will begin at 10:45 am.

As the top executive for manroland AG, Mr. Gerd Finkbeiner is responsible for directing all aspects of the company’s global operations.  Finkbeiner oversees the company’s nine divisions and subsidiaries and serves as Chairman of the Board for manroland Inc., the company’s North American business unit.

In all areas of production and at printing companies worldwide, the standards for speed, quality, flexibility and performance are being challenged.  At this session, Mr. Finkbeiner will explore the global print industry and discuss the current state and direction of both the print and equipment markets.  With a unique vantage point of a global provider in over 100 countries and thousands of printers, Finkbeiner will outline the changes in market dynamics that have become highly visible and are evident of what will be the hot topics and ‘must know’ topics for the industry in the next decade.

manroland Inc., a division of manroland AG, is the world’s second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world’s market leader in web offset.  manroland employs almost 8,700 people and has annual sales of some Euro 1.7 billion with an export share of almost 80%.  Web and sheetfed offset presses provide solutions for publishing, commercial and packaging printing.  For more information visit the web site at www.manroland.us.com.