Steffen Dittmann (56) has been appointed new managing director of PrintHouseService GmbH (PHS) with effect from 1 March 2013. PHS is a subsidiary of Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) offering competent industrial services to web offset and newspaper printers.

The new managing director possesses extensive international experience in sales and service for the print industry, and after a number of years with Koenig & Bauer was most recently active for manroland in China.

In this new position, Steffen Dittmann will be concerning himself primarily with the further development of PHS as an industry service provider, and with concentrated expansion of the business fields system service, repairs, maintenance and technical production support. At the same time, he will be taking some of the weight off the shoulders of Jens Maul, who has to date worked alone to establish and manage PHS alongside his duties as head of KBA service for web presses. 

PrintHouseService GmbH is based in Würzburg, but also maintains branch offices in Augsburg, Plauen and Hamburg. It employs highly qualified specialists with many years of practical experience with printing presses. They work on web presses and peripheral systems from the most varied manufacturers, offering repairs and maintenance, production support, retrofits and equipment upgrades at usual market terms. Alongside its periodic assignments, PHS also has personnel stationed permanently on site with a number of major newspaper printers, in order to provide technical service within the framework of outsourcing projects. Thanks to its efficient decentralised organisation, technical competence and a high degree of flexibility, PHS has built up an excellent reputation, especially in Germany. PHS operates as an independent company, but can nevertheless make use of manpower capacities of the KBA service department and the technical know-how of the press manufacturer at any time for larger or more complex projects. A growing number of web printers has already discovered the benefits of such technical support for their non-KBA installations.