Nazdar, the largest manufacturer of screen and digital printing inks in North America, announces that Patrick Wong (Wong Ko Siong) has joined Nazdar Inks & Coatings as sales director for the Asia Pacific region.In this role, Mr. Wong will be based out of Singapore and will provide sales management in the Asia Pacific region.

“Patrick has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of business development throughout the Asia Pacific region, precisely meeting our current requirements in this important geographic market,” according to Phil McGugan, Nazdar’s vice president of global sales and marketing.

Mr. Wong comes to Nazdar with more than 17 years of screen and digital printing experience, beginning at Lam Thong Corp where his responsibility was sales and marketing of screen printing material and equipment in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. He joined Autotype International Ltd. in 1988 as a technical sales axecutive. While at Autotype, he was promoted to director of Autotype International Ltd.,and was the primary architect in building Autotype’s extensive distribution network in Asia. In 2006, Mr. Wong started his own consultancy firm providing direction for non-Asian companies wishing to expand or create distribution networks in Asia.