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Heidelberg has appointed Werner Ognitzki to its New Zealand sales team in the role of technical sales support specialist – postpress, further enhancing the extensive local customer support network for the global print solutions giant. Werner, or Ogi as he prefers to be called, brings to the role over 30 years of bookbinding experience, having worked for many years in Germany, and for the past ten years in New Zealand. While in Germany Ogi achieved the qualification of Master Book Binder. He will travel to Germany to undertake extensive training on all Heidelberg post press products.

Ogi will work closely with Heidelberg New Zealand’s sales, customer support and technical support teams and be responsible for providing customer-focused services such as technical advice, hands-on demonstrations, problem solving and training.

“This is a new role intended to provide the highest level of support for customers with Heidelberg postpress equipment,” says Hemi Brown, national sales manager for Heidelberg New Zealand.

“We have recognised that there is a lot of aging postpress equipment out there in the marketplace, and our customers have had difficulty in finding and retaining people to operate this machinery. In creating this role, and appointing Ogi, Heidelberg aims to add value for our customers, raise the profile of post press support across the country and help uncover new opportunities for our customers to become more productive in their bindery operations.

“This is an important development for Heidelberg New Zealand and I am sure Ogi will be well-received in the market.”