Small towns across America are highly dependent on the large manufacturing facilities located within their local communities to provide good-wage jobs and benefits. Based on two recent corporate decisions by LSC Communications, the community in Mattoon, Ill., has reason to celebrate, while local residents and small businesses in Gallatin, Tenn., are facing the expected fallout of a major employer leaving town.
I’ve been encouraging business owners NOT to miss seeing the new movie, "The Founder." It’s the global success story about the McDonald’s system that set a giant precedent for franchise operations.
Participants will learn the key elements of the plan to successfully transfer leadership and ownership of a printing & packaging firm.
INX International Ink Co. completed a $4 million expansion at its Charlotte, N.C., facility last year, and recently concluded finishing touches connected to the project. Company officials indicate Charlotte set a new production record in 2016, and are hopeful 2017 will be another record-breaker now that the staff has acclimated to the new space.
Industry veteran Jon Surch has been tapped as the new managing director for Eltosch Grafix America.
As Printing Impressions readies for its 60th anniversary in June of next year, I thought it would be appropriate to republish some of Otto Boutin's more memorable “Otto’s Night Watch,” columns, which were collected in a hard-bound book in 1973. Boutin was a literary master whose "Otto’s Night watch" columns captured the spirit of a bygone era, including stories based around “tramp printers” who traveled the country.
NAC Inc. has installed a Canon ColorStream 3900 as part of the company’s multimillion dollar investment plan.
Perhaps Otto Boutin was the last man who embodied the characteristic traits that once personified the American printer.
Patrick Henry, a longtime printing industry journalist and educator, has joined NAPCO Media’s Printing & Packaging Group as senior editor. His efforts will be devoted to the continued success of Printing Impressions, In-plant Graphics and packagePRINTING magazines. Henry holds numerous awards for editorial excellence, industry service and support of graphic arts education.
Abbey Press Printing and its sister wholesale business, Abbey Press Trade Marketing, are shutting down completely by middle of 2017.
