PTI is proud to present Michael Geiger, Director of Sales and Marketing at Hans Kuenz GmbH, as a speaker at the upcoming Terminal Automation & Training Conference taking place in London on April 19-20, 2017.
Geiger brings 20 years’ worth of experience in materials handling and associated equipment to the event.
Since his graduation in Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics at the Technical University Graz in Austria, Geiger has been employed in the transportation and crane construction fields, with material handling always being his passion.
Geiger said: “The container business has always been quite conservative and safety is a major topic for port operators as clear process and quality control are mandatory today.
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“We have to take the experience from other industries when implementing automated equipment.
“[At the conference] I want to show the lessons we have learned and how we have implemented them when designing state of the art equipment for automated terminals.”
During his employment at Kuenz as a Sales Director, Michael has been involved in the optimization of the international distribution channel and after sales services, including automated stacking cranes for customers such as APMT (Maasvlakte II and Tangier, Morocco), Container Terminal Burchardkai, Hamburg and CSX, one of the leading transportation suppliers in North America.
Geiger has also worked extensively in automated process equipment in the raw materials sector.
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PTI recently discussed the future of automation with Geiger at TOC Europe 2016: