Asia role continues after Sutis' retirement

Dick Sutis – for many years familiar as sales director in Australia and the Asia Pacific – is retiring at the end of July, having worked for Goss International and its predecessors for 44 years. He will remain as vice chairman of the Shanghai Goss Graphic Systems joint-venture and as a directors of Goss Graphics Systems Japan, initiatives which have been his recent focus. He joined Goss (then Miehle-Goss-Dexter) from college as an engineer in 1965, and held product development, strategic business planning and executive positions in the industry, before being appointed president of Goss International in 2002. In the last four decades, he has personally contributed to technology developments including the four-high Community configuration in the 1960s, the stacked heatset web in the 1970s, the four-high Colorliner double-width in the 1980s, and the compact Global Newsliner in the late 1990s. In recent years, he has led key company research and development efforts covering DigiRail, automatic workflow, and the enhanced Magnum. He spearheaded the company's global expansion into Eastern and Central Europe and helped to establish Goss operations in Italy and France, modernise Goss operations in Japan, and invigorate and lead its successful venture in China. A registered professional engineer, he has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for 48 years, a board member the US Web Offset Association, and on the board of NPES and the Research and Engineering Council. "Much has changed since my father showed me his presses at age five,” he says. “These changes in technology are what keeps the industry vibrant and generates higher print quality, lower costs and more efficient throughput. “I am ready to retire, but the presses will not stop. Print will continue to play an important role in our lives."