Investor Ted Langley Appoints His Own Man to Head manroland sheetfed

OFFENBACH, GERMANY—Feb. 14, 2012—Tony Langley, the British investor behind the acquisition of the manroland sheetfed business, has appointed Alfred Rothlaender as head of manroland sheetfed systems GmbH.

Rothlaender (66) was formerly head of machinery builder Claudius Peters near Hamburg, Germany, when Langley acquired the business in 2001. From 2005 to 2008, he then went on to head the Piller Group, a producer of heavy electrical systems for data centers near Hanover, following Langley’s acquisition of that business. Rothlaender then retired in mid-2010.