GiDue announces aggressive global expansion program

Italian press manufacturer GiDue has announced a series of agency agreements and appointments aimed at strengthening its presence and support capabilities across the world.

KPG Europe and KPG Corporation – formerly the Ko-Pack sales and support operations – are the company’s new agents for the UK and USA respectively.

Based in the UK at Peterborough and Lincolnshire and in the USA at Vermont, the management team at KPG has many years experience of developing and marketing presses for the labeling and packaging industries. Glenn Miller, managing director of KPG Europe, commented: ‘Our partnership with GiDue represents an exciting opportunity for our two organizations to offer customers the very latest printing and converting technologies, combined with vast experience of specialist applications.’

GiDue has also expanded its marketing and sales activities in Latin America with the appointment of Hector Aguilar to the position of area manager. The Spanish, English and French speaking mechanical engineer brings with him experience as sales manager for the converting division of Erhardt & Leimer and extensive experience of equipment sales in the printing industry including offset, rotogravure and flexography.

In India, GiDue has formed GiDue India (left) with Reifenhauser India Marketing Ltd., a subsidiary of M/s. Reifenhuser GmbH & Co, Germany. Reifenhuser India Marketing Ltd. has a strong presence in India’s plastics, packaging and converting sectors, with a team of more than 20 sales and service engineers.

The cooperation between the two companies will cover a broad range of technologies including UV flexo combination (offset plus flexo) printing technologies, wider presses for carton, tags, wrap around labels and shrink sleeves, short run digital printing, security applications against counterfeiting / duplication, and converting of pharmaceutical and liquor labels on the roll.

Finally, GiDue has appointed Simark d.o.o. as its agent in Eastern Europe. The company will be responsible for GiDue sales in the region including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Simark is currently involved in the field of flexible packaging and narrow web printing and represents consumables and equipment suppliers for flexo and gravure printing.