Juergen Giesow, Ph.D, started in 1983 as an apprentice at a Packaging company to become a Certified Process Technician. After the 3 year program he stayed with the company and became a shift leader. In 1989 he went back to University for Plastic Engineering in Troisdorf Germany. After finishing this program Juergen joined ARBURG at the head Quarter facility in Germany to become a trainer. As part of that he went through an elaborate training program and spent some time in every department of the company for a total of 16 month. After years in the training department at ARBURG he started to travel to the US in 1996 to set up an Application Engineering department. In 1998 he moved to the US and became an ARBURG US employee. In 2002 Juergen moved to CA to become the Regional Manager for ARBURG for the Western 13 states.

Juergen has more than 25 years in the Plastic Industry and has presented dozens of papers.