Award For College's Excellence In Flexo Printing

A Harper Corporation of America product story

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team May 31, 2006

The Harper Flexo College of the Year Award has been won by Dunwoody College of Technology, in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA).

The Harper Flexo College of the Year Award has been won by Dunwoody College of Technology, in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA).

Art Ehrenberg, vice president of manufacturing operations at Harper Corporation, which provides the award, and Pete Hartman, Harper's vice president of sales, presented the prize and trophy to Dunwoody instructor Joe Muller at the Flexographic Technical Association's 2006 FTA Forum awards banquet in Louisville, Kentucky.

Second place went to Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), Harper Campus, in Charlotte, North Carollina.

Twice winner California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, which won in 2004 and 2005, received third place.

Art Ehrenberg said: "Dunwoody College consistently demonstrates an excellent flexo programme.

This special award was created in 2002 to encourage excellence in flexographic education and Harper is one of many proud industry participants who have contributed to this important educational effort from the association's foundation." Each participating school submitted an entry which was reviewed by a panel of industry veterans and judged on a variety of criteria, including creativity and organisation of the information provided, flexo print samples, student perspectives on flexography, interviews with converters, and other information about the school and its printing programme said Harper.

This year's judges included Wayne Fortenberry of Bryce Corporation, Bettylyn Krafft of both Krafft Printing Systems and the Phoenix Challenge Foundation, Mark Cisternino of the Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Association (FFTA), Charlotte Jones of the Career and Technology Centre of Anderson, and Sonya Long of the Phoenix Challenge Foundation.

The Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Association's Flexo in Colleges programme now sponsors 30 colleges that teach flexography in North America.

In addition, 21 high schools are sponsored by the FFTA.