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Henrik Christiansen (b. 1947)

Henrik Christiansen is a Danish citizen living in Limhamn just outside Malmö, Sweden. Henrik has a comprehensive experience within the global printing industry, marketing and selling offset presses and developing and marketing various ancillary equipment. Henrik speaks, besides the Scandinavian languages, English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese to a very decent level of business negotiation. Henrik has written several articles about the economics of printing, temperature- and dampening water behavior, coating units for dispersion and UV coatings and robotics for the printing industry.
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Business career
July 2016-2017 President/CEO & part-owner, Graphic Robotics Aps
Graphic Robotics was established as a specialized R&D, system integrator and marketer of Yaskawa’s industrial robots for the printing industry

2013-2016, Consultant regarding the printing industry, Yaskawa Nordic AB, Torsås, Sweden
​Yaskawa Nordic is one of the leading suppliers of industrial robot in the Nordic area. It is a 100% subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Kitakyushu, Japan 

2012-2013, Sales Director/COO & part-owner, Industrial Robot Automation Aps, Espergærde, Denmark
Graphic Robotic changed name to Industrial Robot Automation

2009-2012, Sales Director/COO & part-owner, Graphic Robotics Aps, Espergærde, Denmark
Graphic Robotics was established as a developer of robot solutions for the printing industry in close cooperation with Yaskawa and The Danish Technological Institute

2008-2010, Sales Director/COO, Camelot Robotics Aps, Helsinge, Denmark
Camolot Robotics is a manufacturer of off-line robot control systems

2003-2007, External Product Manager, Tresu Production Aps, Sdr. Bjert, Denmark
Tresu is a leading manufacturer of flexo presses and coating systems. Tresu bought Royse mfg in 2003, and Tresu-Royse is today a leading manufacturer of ancillary equipment for offset- and digital presses

2000-2003, President/CEO & part-owner, Royse Europe Aps, Hellerup, Denmark
Royse Europe was a venture between Royse mfg, Dallas, Texas, USA and Cool Graphics. Royse mfg was a leading manufacturer of dampening water and coater circulators

1997-present, President/CEO & owner, Cool Graphics Aps
Cool started with developing and marketing ink-roller temperature control systems for offset presses and moved in 2008 into robotics

1990-1997, President/CEO & owner, CLP Scandinavia Aps, Hellerup, Denmark
CLP was the agent for MLP (Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses) in Scandinavia

1987-1990, President/CEO, Komori Scandinavia AS, Brøndby, Denmark
HMC and the other Scandinavian Komori agents were taken over by Komori and merged to Komori Scandinavia

1984-2012, External journalist, AGI
AGI (Aktuel Grafisk Information) were the Graphic Arts Magazines in Denmark, Norway & Sweden

1984-1987, President/CEO & owner, HMC Graphic Equipment AS, Birkerød, Denmark
HMC was the agent for Komori in Denmark

1979-1984, Vice-President, Anapal Lda., Lisbon, Portugal
Anapal was the agent for Komori in Portugal

1977-1979, Vice-President, international copier division, Eskofot AS, Ballerup, Denmark
Eskofot was a leading manufacturer of pre-press equipment for the printing industry. It is today a part of Esko

1975-1977, Advertising Manager, Bohnstedt-Petersen AS, Hillerød, Denmark
Bohnstedt was the Danish agent for Daimler-Benz in Denmark

1974-1975, Marketing Consultant, J+J Industrial Marketing AS, Valby, Denmark
J+J was the leading industrial marketing agency in Denmark
 
1973-1974, Military service, The Danish Army

Education
1976-80 Various language courses (German, French, Spanish, Portuguese) at universities and language schools in Aix-en-Provence, Pau, Strasbourg, Barcelona, Seville, Salamanca, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro
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1974-1976
Various courses in international finance at CBS

1976 Economist (HD) from CBS – Specialization in International marketing and sales

1973 Economist (HA) from CBS – Copenhagen Business School – general Economics

​1967 Mathematical Student from Birkerød Statskole in Denmark

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