Quad/Graphics

SUSSEX, WI—Current Chairman of the Senate for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Tom Carper, recently shared his views with Republic 3.0 on keeping the U.S. Postal Service viable in the 21st Century.

While we agree with Senator Carper that Congress needs to act during the lame-duck session following the November elections, we are also adamant to make sure the reform is meaningful for mailers, rather than making the current situation worse.

We disagree with his assumptions related to pricing.

Current Chairman of the Senate for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Tom Carper, recently shared his views with Republic 3.0 on keeping the U.S. Postal Service viable in the 21st Century.

While we agree with Senator Carper that Congress needs to act during the lame-duck session following the November elections, we are also adamant to make sure the reform is meaningful for mailers, rather than making the current situation worse.

We disagree with his assumptions related to pricing.

SUSSEX, WI—Tempt In-Store Productions, a Quad/Graphics company, announced it has completed the installation of its newest very-large-format press, a KBA Rapida 205, which is targeted for printing POP signage, posters, displays and graphics of all kinds up to 81x59˝ in size on a wide range of paper and plastic substrates.

Tempt In-Store Productions, a Quad/Graphics co., has completed the installation of a new KBA Rapida 205 large-format press at its Milwaukee-area facility. The new press will allow Tempt to produce POP signage, posters, displays and graphics of all kinds up to 81" by 59".

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ October 2014 edition, featuring Phillips Graphic Finishing, Graphic Edge Printing & Packaging, The Label Shoppe, Nino Press, Robinson Printing, Merritt Graphics, Media Graphix

Quad/Graphics is in the process of filling 750 openings in Wisconsin, where Quad has kept all nine of its printing plants up and running. That includes its "mega-plant" in Lomira that Quad calls the largest printing plant in the Western Hemisphere.

Help-wanted ads numbering in the hundreds stand out in a slow-growth state like Wisconsin, which is a chronic laggard in job creation compared with the U.S. average.

So it's all the more astonishing that Quad is seeking new hires after it already has increased its Wisconsin head count by more than 600 since 2010.

LOMIRA, WI—An unidentified Quad/Graphics employee was taken to the hospital Tuesday after getting his hand stuck in a press, according to the Fond du Lac Reporter.

An unidentified Quad/Graphics employee was taken to the hospital Tuesday after getting his hand stuck in a press, according to the Fond du Lac Reporter. The employee was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries and was released later that night, a Quad spokesperson said.

The Stearns-Benton Employment and Training Council has received a $604,500 state grant to help some Quad/Graphics employees in the wake of the company's decision to close operations in St. Cloud.

"The feedback we got was that most people are interested in short-term training and getting back to work as soon as possible," said David Green, program manager with the SBETC. "So we'll try to focus on quick, high-intensity training to accomplish that."

SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics Inc. is looking to fill 757 open positions—including 111 professional jobs and 646 production positions—in its network of plants and corporate offices in Wisconsin. About half of the jobs are part-time and the remaining are full-time positions, according to the Milwaukee Business Journal.