With the opening of a sales office in Backnang near Stuttgart in May 2020, the manufacturer of LED lighting iiM is strengthening customer support for the Lumimax brand in the southwest of Germany, which includes the Stuttgart area as well as Baden, Palatinate and Saarland. The new branch office including an image processing laboratory for preliminary tests will be run by Thomas Leitner. He also complements and supports the sales activities of Karsten Moses, the sales manager based in Weißensberg near Lindau.

Leitner has 30 years of experience in the field of industrial image processing. After successfully completing his studies in "Optical Technology", he expanded his know-how in various companies. The last seven years he worked as team leader Pre-Sales and Application Engineering for a renowned company in the image processing industry.