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AROUND THE INDUSTRY EUROPE Biuromax, COVID-19, Business Biuromax returns to partial normality The company has returned to working within its offices in Baniocha after a brief period of remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Biuromax’s team has returned to Baniocha, returning to partial normality after a brief period of remote working for the team. As the team explains home office working came with its many challenges and “most of the Biuromax team returned to their desks with joy (quite often – and we admit it openly – to run away from domestic duties and school tasks of our kids who are currently in home education).” Working routines needed to be adapted but each division is now represented by no more than two persons appointed to be on duty. As a result of that, just 10 people out of the whole 40-strong team are present at the office. In order to additionally limit the risk, Biuromax have appointed fixed teams – so that its employees meet the same people each time. Biuromax added: “The necessary safety measures – keeping a proper distance, disinfecting hands and keeping the office spotlessly clean – are a reminder of the current situation. No matter if we are on duty or working from home, we remain available to our clients.” Talking about its period of remote working, Biuromax shared: “Before the epidemic, the idea of our work was focused mainly on direct contacts with clients: meetings, talks, trainings, supplementary education, organising and dispatching deliveries. This is why the change in the operational mode of the office was quite revolutionary for us. “The several weeks in which we had to switch entirely to remote work have taught us a lot. Above all, such an experience really strengthens the relationships within the team! We depend on our mutual help to a much greater degree. We take responsibility not only for our own actions, but also for the pace and quality of information passed on to the other team members – as the information flows via phone and internet only. Because of that, the effectiveness of the whole team depends on each of us and all decisions and actions have quick results. “How did we perform? We can proudly say that even at the stage of remote work we haven’t “lost” a single query from our clients!” Biuromax speaks of the importance of motivation during the home working period and said for its team having the right mindset was part of its success. As Biuromax team explained: “We also held frequent video conferences, during which we discussed crucial issues and projects. Focusing on the planned goals allowed us to experience satisfaction with each completed task instead of just counting the days until the return to the office. This was the key to success!” ■ EUROPE Kyocera, Business, Germany Stephen Schienbein heads up AKI GmbH The document management provider Kyocera Document Solutions has appointed Stephen Schienbein to a dual function for the new financial year. ▲ Stephen Schienbein Sales Director, Kyocera & CEO, AKI GmbH In addition to his position as Kyocera Sales Director, Schienbein will also be responsible for AKI GmbH. He succeeds Martin Kellner, who retired, and will continue to drive the strategic direction of the Würzburg software company. Schienbein has been with Kyocera since 2005. Before that, he worked for Karstadt and for Tech-Data-predecessor Computer 2000. In 2009, he took over overall responsibility for the organisation of the internal sales team as Senior Channel Sales Manager and representative of the Sales Director. In his role, he was responsible for the distribution channel and consumables, and set up the e-tail channel as a B2B provider and a business operations team. Schienbein has been the Sales Director of all Kyocera sales areas since 2016 and, in times of digitalisation, focused primarily on the transformation of Kyocera. In the past few months, Schienbein has worked intensively on synergy effects within the companies of the German Kyocera group. ■ 26 Issue 331 June 2020
You can contact The Recycler via Twitter at @RecyclerMedia EUROPE Armor, 3D Printing, COVID-19, Innovation EUROPE EveryonePrint, HCP, Printing ▲ Hubert de Boisredon Chairman & CEO, Armor Armor supports hospital with face shields The French company is doing its bit in the fight against the pandemic by 3D printing face visors for the local hospital in Nantes. French newspaper Le Figaro reported that with the help of a collaboration between the University of Nantes and Armor, Nantes University Hospital has received 800 3D printed protective visors last week. The visors were tested for suitability by the University for medical use. In the report, a CHU spokesperson said that the plan is to ramp up production of the face shields to 1,000 a day and expand use from just hospital staff to other frontline staff who are the most exposed to the virus. ■ EveryonePrint to provide free access to HCP The software company is offering Hybrid Cloud Platform (HCP) subscriptions to frontline services free of charge through to 31 December 2020. EveryonePrint has launched the initiative in order to help blue light emergency services, healthcare, pharmacy and food sector providers, to benefit from the agility and innovation of cloud technology to make printing less complex for workers as the world combats COVID-19. Through its global network of channel partners, EveryonePrint is offering qualifying organisations as many licenses as they need (without limits) across its core, embedded and hosted offerings (hardware excluded). There is no obligation to continue using the platform after 31 December. “We recognise the importance of keeping essential businesses moving during this period of significant disruption. With many frontline service staff now working differently, across distributed sites or in temporary/pop up locations, including IT personnel, leveraging the benefits of cloud agility to ensure seamless and secure access to printing for everyone, has never been more important,” said Tavs Dalaa, CEO, EveryonePrint. “HCP reduces the burden on IT, it’s easy to manage printer deployment, configure default settings and control access all from a central point. The software provides the strongest security between endpoints including encryption of data at rest and enables organisations to use their own Trusted CA certificates,” he added. ■ Issue 331 June 2020 27
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