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ASPT Member Biography
Richard was born 1927 in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied law in Basel, Switzerland, and Heidelberg. As a student Richard worked for almost three years at the University of Heidelberg as executive secretary of the Foreign Department. After a stint at the courts of law Richard went to the US to work in NYC in the brewery supply business. After his return to Germany in 1958, he took over as managing director of Kissel & Wolf GmbH, then a small manufacturer of adhesives and similar chemical-technical products. The company soon branched out and acquired a producer of screen lacquers for the textile printing Industry. During the following years the company began supplying the developing screen printing industry and eventually became one of the leading suppliers, known for its printable adhesives and light sensitive screen emulsions. The company grew into a group and now sells all over the world and has subsidiaries and related companies in Australia, India, Singapore and in the US. In 1999, the prestigious Ulano Corporation of Brooklyn, NY, was acquired. Richard is Chairman of Soral AG, Basel, and he is managing director of Albert Rose Chemicals, Berne, Switzerland. He serves on the Board of Kiwo Inc., Houston, TX, Kissel & Wolf Australia Pty.Ltd., Kiwo Holdings Inc. of Delaware, Albert Rose Chemicals (India) Pvt.Ltd., Ahmedabad and Mumbei, Indochem Pty.Ltd. of Singapore and Saxon Screens GmbH of Frankenberg, Saxony, Germany. He is a member of the Academy of Screen Printing Technology, Fairfax, VA, USA, and served as its Chairman 2001 and 2002. Richard lives in Berne, Switzerland and Fayence, France. He was married to Annabelle Fischer of New York who died 1991. They have two sons, , R. David, who is working as Richard's successor in the producing companies, and Philip W., formerly a banking executive and lately Executive Director of an executive search firm in Hong Kong. |
Richard
Eisenbeiss