Heidelberg Honors Winners of the HEI Eco Printing Award

Coinciding with the start of spring, the winners of the Heidelberg Eco Printing Award were honored at a small ceremony at the Print Media Academy in Heidelberg. Dick Kouwenhoven, owner of Hemlock Printers, Canada, was presented with the environmental award for the most sustainable print shop, which comes with a prize fund of 30,000 Euro. Kazuhisa Yoshida, owner of Yoshida Printing in Japan, accepted the award for most innovative stand-alone solution and a check for 20,000 Euro. A five-member panel of international judges selected the two winners from 52 applicants. Together with judge Dr. Achim Schorb from the Heidelberg Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU), Heidelberg board members Dr. Jürgen Rautert and Stephan Plenz handed over the two HEI Eco Printing Award sculptures along with the certificates and prize checks.