We like to welcome 4 new trainees starting their 3 year apprenticeship within the POLYWEST-Team. Gabriel Kowalski (Left) and Julian Venheus (middleleft) will work in the maintance department. Mrs Pia Rabbe (middle right) and Mr. Alexander Wigger (right) start their training in the administration and sales department. At the POLYWEST Banner the trainers Mrs Christina Rathmer (HR) und Mr. Adolf Borgers (technical trainer) are shown.
The vocational training of 9 trainees is done in 3 different areas,  in business and administration,  in plastic processing and the mechanical and electrical maintenance.

Jörg C. Saueressig left the company at the end of 2020.

Michael Kockentiedt takes over the lead at Polywest after Jörg C. Saueressig left the company on December 31, 2020 when his contract expired.

In May 2008, Jörg C. Saueressig took over POLYWEST as managing partner and made it one of the global market leaders in the field of sleeve and adapter solutions for flexographic printing. As part of the succession plan, Jörg C. Saueressig put the company in good hands with the sale to Quartum Kapital GmbH in April 2019 in order to ensure the long-term development and continuation of the company.

Michael Kockentiedt, who has supported Jörg Saueressig as 2nd managing director at Polywest since the beginning of 2015, now continues the company as sole managing director and is accompanied by a strong management team that supports him in the various business areas. Michael Kockentiedt has been active in the industry for almost a quarter of a century and also knows the market competitors very well from previous activities.

At least since the opening of the in-house FlexoLAB a good five years ago, Lohmann has had a close cooperation with the company “Polywest” from Ahaus. The expert in plastics technology regularly supplies the graphic experts from Neuwied with the latest trends in sleeve systems. “The better the surface of the sleeve, the better our adhesive tape adheres to it. This in turn leads to excellent printing results,” explains Thomas Holzer, Market Manager Graphics at Lohmann. For this reason, he says, it is enormously important for the printing experts to continuously educate themselves and to keep an eye on the latest developments in sleeve technologies.

Therefore, Polywest’s offer to provide the Bonding Engineers with their latest sleeve came in handy. “The contact originally came about through Dortschy, our distributor in Germany. Dortschy also distributes Polywest products and so the idea to present the latest sleeve innovation at FlexoLAB was born,” explains Holzer.

No sooner said than done, and the black sleeve with the sonorous name “Obsidian” landed in Neuwied. It has now been in operation for a good week and the colleagues are very satisfied. The new type of surface, which is extremely resistant to cuts and solvents, improves the bonding of Lohmann’s plate mounting tapes enormously. Its light weight and residue-free cleaning, as well as excellent concentricity, further facilitated its use. “As always, we are impressed by the outstanding sleeve quality and the uncomplicated cooperation with our partners,” summarizes Holzer.

He and his colleagues are certainly pleased with the latest member of their “sleeve family” at FlexoLAB.