The Impact of Printed Electronics on the Printing Industry (Printed Electronics USA 2005)

Reinhard Baumann joined MAN Roland's Digital Printing Business Unit in 1999 as the Head of the Business IT, Logistics and Services Department. Today he is heading the development of industrial solutions for printing functionalities other than color, among them electrical conductivity and semi conductivity.

 

He graduated from the Leipzig University in Physics and holds a Ph. D. in Chemical Physics from the Technische Hochschule Leipzig with a thesis on laser induced polymerization. His research interests focused on areas of Physical Chemistry and Electrical Engineering of organic materials for polymer electronics at the University of Bonn and at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose / CA. The results of this research have been published in several journal and conference papers and patents.

MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Offenbach, is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web press offset. MAN Roland operates out of Offenbach, Augsburg and Plauen in Germany. It employs 9,000 staff and has annual sales of EUR 1.5 billion, with an export share of 80%. Web and sheetfed offset presses as well as digital printing systems are the major product lines for publishing, general commercial, and packaging printing.

 

The field of business ranges from small-format sheetfed presses to production systems for newspaper printing in runs of millions. MAN Roland is a subsidiary company of MAN Aktiengesellschaft, Munich. The MAN group is one of Europe's leading suppliers of capital goods from the fields of commercial vehicle manufacturing and engineering with 60,000 employees and annual sales of EUR 16 billion.