Kyocera Document Solutions SA's 2015 Annual Service Awards

Issued by Kyocera Document Solutions
Johannesburg, 18 Aug 2015

Ashley Arendse (Nasatech) - 2nd place winner, Gideon Fraser (Mpu Copiers) - 1st place winner, Martinus Pretorius (CBS), Ben Myburgh (Tswane Digital), Vincent Lombard (KDZA), Dylan Jooste (Universal Office) - hand in the air, Ryan Hattingh (Universal Office), Charl Naude 9Episcan) - guy with beard, Matthew Townsend (NRG) - 3rd place winner, Chris Wait (Omni), Hansraj Ramsewak (Page Automation), Angelo Williams (KDZA), Armand Nell (Mpu Copiers), Dirk van der Mescht (KDZA).

Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa rewarded its top service professionals at its annual Service Awards ceremony, held on 25 June.

Once a year, Kyocera host a competition for engineers that service their products on site. This event is an opportunity for Kyocera to reward their certified service engineers for outstanding knowledge of Kyocera hardware and software products. The Service Awards attracts 2500 service engineers globally who compete to be the best in their country. Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa hosts the top local engineers at the award ceremony to find the best engineer in South Africa and SADC.

Winners of the 2015 Kyocera Global Service Awards in the top technician category were:-

1st Gideon Fraser MPU Copiers
2nd Ashley Arendse Nasatech
3rd Matthew Townsend NRG Office Solutions

The other top technicians in no specific order were:-

Thomas Arthur Chilcott from Copy Link
Ben Myburgh from Tswane digital Solutions
Christopher Wait from Omni Technologies
Charl Naude from Epsicon
Marthinus Pretorius from CBS/North Holdings
Roland Ramsewak from Page Automation
Ryan Hattingh fromUniversal Office Automative

With the winner of the Top Dealer category was awarded to North Holdings Pty Ltd Trading As Corporate Business Solutions (CBS) and the other top five in no specific order included:

MPU Copiers
Nasatech
Copy Link Trading as Leaf Technologies
Universal Office Automative

Paul Wendlandt, Customer Services Support Manager at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa congratulated the top service engineers and said "Kyocera service partners provide the backbone of service delivery across our region and we continue to focus on continually improving our local service network together with our partners, and providing a certification framework to develop the skills of our service engineers. We thank these service engineers for their hard work and dedication."

Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa

Kyocera is renowned for its tailor-made document solutions that provide a perfect blend of premium products, software solutions and (professional) services that increase an organisation's workflow efficiency, enhance employee productivity, minimise environmental impact and significantly reduce operating costs.

The company offers world-class monochrome and colour printers, multifunctional products, wide-format devices as well as parts, supplies and (software solutions).

A key differentiator for the Kyocera brand is the primary focus on overall value as opposed to only considering the initial acquisition price. Its solutions portfolio and managed document services division help customers to reduce costs and environmental impact at the same time as improving the efficiency and reliability of common business processes.

Kyocera Document Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera Corporation, which is a leading manufacturer of hi-tech ceramics, electronic components, solar cells and electronic office equipment.

For further information, visit www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.za.

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