Tony Langley, the British investor behind the acquisition of the manroland sheetfed business, has appointed German Alfred Rothlaender as head of manroland sheetfed systems GmbH.

Offenbach, 9 February 2012. An investor solution has been found for the sheet fed business of insolvent manroland AG, just days after a sale of the web machines business to German Possehl group was announced. British entrepreneur Tony Langley and the privately owned engineering group, Langley Holdings plc have emerged as the investors behind a 100% takeover of the sheet fed printing equipment division and its properties portfolio in Offenbach, together with manroland’s international marketing organization in more than 40 countries.