Trade Secret Printing

TORONTO—Trade Secret Printing, one of North Americas’s fastest growing trade printers, is pleased to announce it will be hosting an Open House on Thursday, August 21, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. to celebrate the completion of its new manufacturing facility at 40 Horner Ave, in Etobicoke, Ontario. The 104,000 sq.ft. building was acquired to house a new Goss Sunday M2000 24-page web press, along with two six-color Heidelberg sheetfed presses and a 10-color Heidelberg with roll-to sheet capabilities, as well as full bindery facilities. The print community is invited to tour the building and observe the new press in operation, along with

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Toronto is home to many wondrous icons, from the CN Tower on down to hockey’s Maple Leafs. But, to the printing industry, the greater Toronto area is a fertile feeding ground for farming out excess volume or special needs jobs to the scores of printers to the trade that thrive here. It is a curiosity that so many printers to the trade are based in and around Toronto, but there are advantages to taking this route. Many of the trade businesses are relatively young, thus, much of the equipment in these shops is new. For many, an outside sales force is unnecessary. And, now,