Chris Mace of M&M Inc. Talks Recent and Future Equipment Investments

During PRINTING United Expo, Printing Impressions caught up with Chris Mace, general manager and purchasing, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based M&M Inc., to find out what he came to see at the Expo, his recent investment from EFI, and his plans for future investments.

Chris Mace, general manager and purchasing, M&M Inc, at 2024 PRINTING United Expo.

Printing Impressions: Can you tell us about M&M Inc.?

Chris Mace: We've been a screen printer for 85 years or so. It's developed over time to being in the digital world. We're a family-owned business, third generation. We have two generations still there, and don't plan on stopping anytime soon. We've been in the digital world for a little over 15 years or so, and now we are making the big jump into single-pass digital and sort of phasing out our bread and butter, the screen printing.

PI: You just made a recent investment. Can you talk about that?

Mace: We just recently purchased the Nozomi 14,000 SD, and we're having it installed starting on October, 1. We think it's going to revolutionize our business, completely change our business. We really hope to,  in the future be able to turn our customers work quicker, cheaper, and with better quality. This Nozomi hits every single one of those check marks for us.

PI: What equipment are you looking at during the PRINTING United Expo?

Mace: Finishing equipment. The Nozomi takes our printing to another level. It's going to out produce. Our feeling is that it's going to out produce every piece of our equipment that we have currently with this one piece of equipment. Speed wise, it's through the roof. We're not going to be able to keep up on the back end, we can't keep up in finishing with cutting, routing, diecutting, whatever it might be. Even on the packaging side of things, we know there's going to be a bottleneck where we're actually going to be holding off the press to try to give us time to catch up. Our focus here today is really trying to find something that's going to be able to keep up with the printing side of things, which was never the case in the past. It was always the opposite. Routing is always a lot slower than printing, but not so much anymore.