KBA North America, a global press manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, has named former web offset sales manager for the Spanish and South American markets, Ulrich Wicke, as the vice-president of sales and service for the web offset division in North America on July 1, 2009. Heinz Schmid, former vice-president of web offset sales for KBA’s newspaper and commercial web market will remain with the company in an advisory position to the team.