North Andover, MA: Tecnau is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Nilsson as General Manager, Americas for its recently purchased subsidiary, Sitma Machinery S.P.A., effective immediately. Mr. Nilsson comes to Sitma from Plus One Robotics where he was Chief Revenue Officer responsible for commercial and go-to-market strategy for the growth of parcel handling robotic automation systems globally.

Robert Nilsson is an industry veteran with 30 years’ experience in global leadership roles in sales and marketing, business development, and operations for software and technology automation businesses. Prior to Plus One Robotics, Mr. Nilsson was Vice President of Sales and Consulting with Swisslog. Earlier experience includes over ten years with Packsize and Dematic in executive and general management capacities.

“Automation is a passion and thread throughout my career,” said Robert Nilsson, Sitma’s General Manager, Americas. “I am impressed by Sitma’s long track record of fast, reliable, and innovative automated packaging platforms optimized for the most readily available and sustainable paper supply chain. I very much look forward to working with the teams at Sitma and Tecnau to deliver to our customers environmental and commercial benefits for their end-to-end parcel fulfillment processes.”

“We’re very pleased to bring Robert in to lead Sitma’s Americas operations,” said Jeff Kewin, Tecnau’s President, Americas and Asia Pacific. “Robert’s wealth of experience in packaging and automation will be a tremendous asset for Sitma, and will allow him to fully exploit recent Sitma innovations in e-logistics and sustainable packaging.”

Sitma is a global market leader in inserting and packaging solutions for the graphics industry, and sustainable packaging and sortation systems for the e-commerce and intralogistics segment.

Tecnau offers a complete product portfolio dedicated to paper handling, monitoring, processing and finishing for the digital printing industry, providing integrated solutions to support the broadest array of applications for graphic arts, direct mail, publishing, and transactional print,

For more information on Sitma, visit www.sitma.com, and for more information on Tecnau, visit www.tecnau.com.