Progress Printing -- Boom, Not Gloom

"Our MAN Roland ROTOMAN has been a truly valiant workhorse day in and day out, around the clock," Thornton says. "The second web will be the icing on the cake of productivity, throughput and turnaround."

The company was founded in 1962 by Thomas (T.D.) Thornton—father of the current president—and the late R.L. McGee. The pair initially laid ink on paper with a pair of rebuilt, one-color ATF Chief presses and a Kenro vertical camera. Sales from the first year of operation totaled $87,000, and growth was slow but steady. Today, an assortment of four-, six- and eight-color, 41˝ MAN Roland 700 perfectors with coaters and two- and six-color, 40˝ Heidelbergs constitute its sheetfed press arsenal.