7th International Grand Prix Cyrel - president and jury chairman named

The steering team of the 7th International Grand Prix Cyrel has announced the president and jury chairman and support personnel for the selection of the winners of the 2006 International Grand Prix Cyrel scheduled to be held in spring next year.

Wolfgang Klos-Geiger was nominated president and jury chairman.

Two consultants, Ellen Richter – DuPont (Germany) and Laura Restrepo – Ninetynine Networks (Germany) have been appointed to help the jury chairman and the jury Members. Karin Thomson – DuPont (Germany) has been appointed Secretary.

The jurors convention will be in Bad-Homburg, Germany during the summer in 2006.

‘A unique bank of flexo printed packaging is being amassed in Bad-Homburg, Germany thanks to the 14 local 2005 Grand Prix Cyrel awards, the EFTA and FlexoTech awards as well as the FTA awards. It is encouraging to note that interest in taking part in the nomination process is constantly on the increase. For the local 2005 Grand Prix Cyrel awards alone, more than 1700 entries were received. Our hope is that the Grand Prix Cyrel awards, in addition to raising the awareness of flexo capability and quality, will also lead to the adoption of more flexo printed packaging,’ commented Pier Luigi Sassanelli, marketing communications and brand manager, DuPont Packaging Graphics Europe MEA.

Biography of Wolfgang Klos-Geiger

Wolfgang Klos-Geiger is the founder and publisher of ‘NarroWebTech’, ‘Flexo & Gravure International’ and other technical magazines and books for the flexo and gravure printing and converting industries, and the self-adhesive roll label markets.

After finishing his studies of Press Technology and Publishing Economics in 1974 at the Technical University for Printing (now Hochschule der Media/Print Media University) in Stuttgart, Germany, Wolfgang Klos-Geiger joined IFRA, an international newspaper production technology research organization. From 1978 he was working for some publishing houses in Germany, where he was involved in the management of the international advertising business and of building-up new divisions.

In 1989 he and his wife, Jutta M. Geiger, started their own company G&K TechMedia GmbH which first was working on projects for other publishing houses. In 1990 Wolfgang Klos-Geiger started his first own publication on flexo and gravure printing. The company is now publishing five magazines with world-wide distribution, has produced some books and maintains a web-site on the internet (http://www.flexo.de/). The company has also organized some study tours to the USA, and co-organized flexo and gravure conferences in Asia (Thailand and Malaysia).

Wolfgang Klos-Geiger is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars (e.g. in Thailand, China, Taiwan and India). He also served as judge in a number of international print competitions.