Gallus restructures in Asia

Gallus is reorganizing its operations in Asia in a move to position itself closer to customers in emerging markets.
 
This will see two new sales and service centres opened in the region, one in South-east Asia and the other in India.
 
Following a long and successful sales and service cooperation with Heidelberg in the Asia region and the expansion of both companies' respective portfolios for their own customer groups, Gallus said the next logical step for it was to establish its own sales centres.
 
The Group's folding carton business develops and markets narrow and wide web reel-fed presses and die cutters for the cost-effective in-line production of folding cartons and cardboard products. Besides its portfolio of presses, Gallus also provides consumables and a global, decentralized service and spare parts network.
 
Singapore-based Gallus South East Asia Pte Ltd (Gallus SEA) is taking over all local Gallus sales and service activities for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Indochina. Dario Urbinati, who has worked at Gallus for many years, will head up the Gallus SEA sales centre for the entire region. In his role as managing director, he will be supported by a team of sales, service and print professionals who between them have spent years gathering a wide range of local experience with Gallus products.
 
Based in Mumbai, the new Gallus sales and service centre in India will launched operations on December 1. Led by a team with many years' experience of Gallus products, Gallus India in Mumbai will be responsible for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burma and Nepal. Samir Patkar, who spent many years in charge of Gallus products at Heidelberg India, will take on the role of managing director. Narendra Kulkarni will be in charge of service and technical support. Additional support will come from local service engineers in Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore.
 
‘Gallus is delighted that these two experienced teams will transfer the knowledge built up over many years into the new organisation and that the company is now in a position to take targeted steps to intensify its local presence and move even closer to the customer,’ the company said.