Buyers' Guide: Gravure Related Services

ArmaKleen Company, The
469 N. Harrison St.
Princeton, NJ 08543 
P: 1-800-332-5424
F: 609-497-7176
E: armakleen.info@churchdwight.com
www.armakleen.com
ArmaKleen offers a nonhazardous off-press parts cleaning service that includes equipment, chemicals, maintenance of equipment and chemicals, and proper waste disposal of spent chemical solutions. The company’s proprietary aqueous cleaners lead the way in environmentally sensible and productivity-boosting alternatives to solvent-based cleaners.
The company is a joint venture between two leading companies in commercial and industrial parts cleaning: Church & Dwight, makers of Arm & Hammer® brand products, and Safety-Kleen Systems, the premier provider of parts cleaning and environmental solution.

Capitol Gravure Industries Pte. Ltd.
11 Tampines St. 92
Tampines Industrial Park A, #02-07
Trivec Center, Singapore 529972
P: 01-65-6787-7275
F: 01-65-6787-8797
E: jack@capitol-gravure.com.sg
www.capitol-gravure.com.sg
Capitol Gravure specializes in the manufacturing of steel and aluminum gravure cylinders and gravure sleeves for the trade, as well as embossing cylinders and various types of rollers. Capitol is the preferred vendor for Philip Morris International.

ClearView Logistics Inc.
15008 Kercheval Ave.
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
P: 313-228-4043
F: 313-331-2975
E: dmcglone@clearviewlogistics.com
www.clearviewlogistics.com
ClearView Logistics specializes in print media logistics, whether you need delivery to the 5,000 local community newspapers in the U.S., the 112 largest metro newspapers, or “last mile” delivery services coordinated through companies such as Circserv, Clark Distribution, Distributech, DominionDistribution Service, or National Mailing Service.
ClearView provides freight management expertise for your most complex delivery requirements; to ensure complete customer satisfaction, we provide real-time visibility to all your deliveries via our secure web-based interface. Fully 95% of ClearView Logistics customers have recommended us to their business associates; log on to our website and click “Transparency in Transportation” for their testimonials.
 
 
Daetwyler R&D Corporation
2133 Lyons Rd.
Miamisburg, OH 45342-4511
P: 937-428-1700
F: 937-439-1592
E: salesdaetwyler-rd.com
www.daetwyler-rd.com
Daetwyler R&D’s focus is on new advancements for traditional electro-mechanical engraving and MicroGravure engraving. The MicroStar MicroEngraving system takes sub-micron accuracy, our core specialty, to a new level for the production of printed electronics, optical lenses, and films.
If automated cylinder production is your goal, we have the GravoStar HS. For those with existing 700 or 800 series engravers, we can improve productivity and quality with GRAVOSTAR 857 and 827 upgrades, or keep them running with our experienced service group. The capabilities of the Collage Layout software continue to expand with new features and Hell K500 compatibility. Our engineering group is also ready to help you with bringing your ideas to the market. Whether it is printed electronics, automated engravers, service and spare parts, or brainstormed ideas, Daetwyler R&D covers your needs.

Fibercore Onsite Paper Services
4478 Old Manchester Highway
Tullahoma, Tn. 37388
P: 888-736-3600 (24 HOUR / 7 DAY SERVICE)
F: (931)455-8768
E: info@fibercoreops.com
www.firbercoreops.com
Fibercore Onsite Paper Services provides a mobile service that converts rolls of paper to new widths at the customer’s location in North America, Canada and Europe. We do this without rewinding so mill quality is maintained. We also offer cost effective recycling equipment for separating white waste from the core and chopping the core into recyclable pieces. For those needing the rolls to be repackaged we provide a mobile wrapping service that creates tight, mill-quality wrapped rolls for multi-pack rolls to any width. International licensing and joint venture opportunities are available.

FLXON, Inc.
8531 Crown Crescent Ct.
Charlotte, NC 28227
P: 704-844-2434
F: 704-844-2437
E: mjohnson@flxon.com
www.flxon.com
FLXON works with rotogravure printers to find sustainable process control and process improvement solutions. These solutions include the new G2™ Ink Management System, which is proven to eliminate print defects such as streaks, haze, fog, splashing, and blade end edge breaks, which often result in mid-run press stops. Work off inks, doctor blades, and solvent consumption can be reduced by 50%, and investment returns can be reported in as little as 90 days. Contact us today for a free Project Cost Estimate.
 

Graphic Communications
5700 Darrow Rd., Suite 110
Hudson, OH 44236
P: 330-650-5522
F: 330-650-8999
www.graphiccommunications.com
Graphic Communications is a privately held company of Unisource Worldwide, North America’s largest independent distributor of printing and imaging papers, facility supplies and equipment, and packaging materials and equipment. Among Forbes’ largest private firms, Unisource is a 50-year-old business owned by Bain Capital.
Together, we are the world’s largest independent paper communications consultant, representing a cross section of the finest papermakers and printers around the globe. GC and Unisource clients print on more than 2.5 million tons and $5.2 billion of paper annually. Every year, we save customers tens of millions of dollars on corporate paper solutions and print solutions.
GC and Unisource buy more competitively priced, highest-quality printing papers than any company anywhere. We supply printers with next-day delivery from the industry’s most sophisticated supply chain network that includes domestic and imported products with more than 13,000 SKUs and 650 brands. We have 76 North American distribution centers, 17 million square feet of inventory and 300 million pounds of stocked paper for every imaginable print product. We also have offices in Asia, Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America.

Group360 Worldwide
1307 Washington Ave., Suite 200
St. Louis, MO 63103
P: 314-260-6360
F: 314-255-2830
C: 817-657-4475
E: loripeeraer@group360.com
www.group360.com
Group360 is a strategic, creative, and execution company providing a globally integrated suite of services to aid our clients and their brands in going to market quickly, efficiently, and with consistent high quality. We specialize in the following services: creative, photography, premedia, digital asset management, retail marketing, and tradeshow and event management. The variety of markets we serve includes catalog, retail, consumer package goods, consumer hard goods, and pharmaceuticals.

Group O
4905 77th Avenue
Milan, IL 61264
P: 800.752.0730
P: 309.736.8100
E: Tiffany.williams@groupo.com
www.groupo.com
Group O marketing solutions offers a full range of relevant loyalty and incentive programs; the O2  
technology platform for high volume, personalized print and direct marketing messages; and efficient consumer and trade fulfillment services.
 
ICR-IOANNOU S.A.
Inofyta Industrial Zone
Inofyta 32011, Greece
P: +(30) 22620-32484
F: +(30) 22620-31874
sstaveris@icr-ioannou.gr
www.icr-ioannou.gr
ICR-Ioannou is a major engraver of rotogravure cylinders and flexo plates in Greece. The policy of total quality is applied to the final product, to the customer service but also to the investment in new technologies and human potential. We adapt our know-how according to the customers’ wishes and our aim is pointing out the characteristics that will make the final product become distinguished. We act in such a way that the high quality of our services is accompanied by a reasonable price. A new product on the market during 2010 is Aluminum based Light Weight Cylinders for easier handling for printers and lower transportation costs.

Image Print Technologies, LLC
2406 N. 23rd St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
P: 910-762-6270
F: 910-251-9132
E: keith@imageprinttechnologies.com
www.imageprinttechnologies.com
Image Print Technologies is a gravure cylinder engraver providing prepress and engraving services to the flexible packaging marketplace. Services range from production art, digital asset management, prepress technical assistance, and color separations to color correction and color management, copper/chrome plating, cylinder repair and re-chrome services, and cylinder storage.

N.J. Motivala
B-32, Hastiraj, B. Vashi Rd.
Vile Parle (W)
Mumbai, 400 056 India
P: 0091-22-26707117
E: nitin47@vsnl.com
www.machineindia.net
The company offers services such as buying/selling, appraisal, reconditioning, and installation of used rotogravure/flexo printing machines, as well as products, i.e. laminating machines, metallizers, slitters, plastic film extrusion, and special-purpose plants and machines.

PRÜFTECHNIK Service, Inc.
22 West Church St.
Blackwood, NJ 08012
P: 856-401-3095
F: 856-401-1484
E: info@pruftechnik-service.com
www.pruftechnik-service.com
The company provides PARALIGN, a new inertial technology developed by the parent company in Germany to measure roller parallelism regardless of line-of-sight issues, which benefits the gravure and printing processes. By using a series of gyroscopes that measure both horizontal and vertical axes, relative parallelism between rolls can be verified from any given roll as a reference. The process reveals a full blueprint of roll alignment in entire sections of the line, in one single shutdown, producing instantaneous results and minimizing downtime.

RotaDyne Decorative Technologies Group
1270 Hillsmith Dr.
Cincinnati, OH 45215
P: 513-771-6300
F: 513-771-3112
rfriant@rotadyne.com
www.rotadyne.com
RotaDyne Decorative Technologies Group, a division of the Rotation Dynamics Corporation, provides turnkey design, prepress, and engraving services to a diverse customer base in the gravure industry. From three U.S. production facilities, RotaDyne DTG’s capabilities include: laser and mechanical engraving for print, embossing and coating cylinders and sleeves; copper and chrome plating; proofing and cylinder repair. Rotation Dynamics Corporation is a worldwide manufacturer of rollers for the converting industry.
Products include rollers with rubber or polyurethane covering; brush rollers, demountable composite sleeves and mandrels; electrostatic assist systems; static discharge units; web cleaning systems; rubber/polyurethane cutting bars; and nip wheels.

ROTHTEC Engraving Corporation
699 Tarkiln Hill Rd.
New Bedford, MA 02745-0002
P: 508-995-4601
F: 508-995-1261
E: contact@rothtec.com
www.rothtec.com
Company activities extend beyond the core business of engraving rotary and galvano screens for the textile printing industry, to the manufacture of sleeves of nickel and nickel-copper for the gravure industry. We also provide complex electroformed nickel screens, nickel sleeves, and other hybrids of cylindrical forms for process applications, including the production, forming, finishing, coating, laminating, and embossing of woven, knitted, and nonwoven fabric, plastic film, foil, food, labels, packaging, and paper. TEC-Print is the trade name for all ROTHTEC® engraved rotary and galvano screens for printing, coating, and laminating.

Schawk, Inc.
1695 River Rd.
Des Plaines, IL 60018
P: 847-827-9494
F: 847-827-1264
E: info@schawk.com
www.schawk.com
In the category of brand point management, Schawk offers a global portfolio of strategic, creative, and execution capabilities. The company, which operates 60 offices around the world, is a recognized leader providing premium prepress services to consumer packaging, point-of-purchase/point-of-sale, and advertising markets.
 
Schawk Milwaukee
2650 S. 166th St.
New Berlin, WI 53151
P: 262-786-2330
F: 262-786-4507
E: carmelo.alioto@schawk.com
Schawk Milwaukee, a division of Schawk, Inc., supplies prepress services to gravure packaging and specialty printers throughout North America. We also supply flexographic and offset films or digital files to packaging converters for a variety of major consumer products companies. We provide high-speed copper- and chrome-plating services to packaging and publication gravure printers. We engrave gravure cylinders with high-speed electronic engraving heads supported by a direct PostScript digital workflow.

Sensor Products Inc.
300 Madison Ave.
Madison, NJ 07940 USA
Tel: 1-973-884-1755 ext. 5009
Fax: 1-973-884-1699
vfrancavilla@sensorprod.com
www.sensorprod.com
Sensor Products Inc. is a world leader in manufacturing and distribution of tactile pressure indicating sensor solutions. Our diverse products are used in printing, converting, and pulp & paper making. Pressurex® sensor film reveals nip and roll contact pressure magnitude and distribution and ensures parallelism between nipped rolls.  DigiNip® is a portable roller alignment instrument that allows users to quickly and accurately record the spot nip (contact point between rollers). The Auto-NIS® imager enables the interpretation and analysis of nip impression films and ascertains proper roller crowning and parallelism.

Siemens Energy & Automation
5300 Triangle Parkway
Suite 100
Norcross, GA 30092
P: 770-871-3882
E: marcus.schick@siemens.com
Siemens offers the complete line of electrical products and services for your next press retrofit or installation. Whether you’re looking at the whole press or just the rollstand, Siemens can help you reach your goals.

Southern Graphics Systems, Inc.
626 W. Main St., Suite 500
Louisville, KY 40209
P: 502-637-5443
F: 502-634-5298
E: butch.hoover@sgsintl.com
www.sgsintl.com
Southern Graphics Systems provides digital communications, asset management services, and gravure, flexo, and offset image carriers and separations. SGS, founded in 1946 as a gravure cylinder engraver, now offers a full range of “Design-2-Print” services and technology to consumer product markets, which are supported by 43 global locations. Current services include onsite project management and consulting, brand design services and brand visual continuity, conceptual design and production art development, and lean business solutions.
 
Standex Engraving Group LLC
Eastern Engraving Division
355 Warren Ave.
Stirling, NJ 07980-1443
P: 908-392-4105
E: spector@easternengraving.com
Manufacturer of rotary embossing equipment and engraved rolls for embossing paper, foil, metallized paper, board, and poly-film. Eastern Engraving pioneered rotary, in-line, registered-to-print embossing on high-speed gravure equipment for liquor cartons and labels, beer and wine cooler labels, and cigarette packages. Eastern Engraving has access to the largest library of embossing patterns in the industry.

Stony Brook Scientific, Ltd.
1055 W. Germantown Pike
Norristown, PA 19403
P: 610-635-1740, 888-889-7764
F: 610-635-1780
E: info@stonybrooksci.com
www.stonybrooksci.com
New portable and disposable viscometers that include disposable sample tubes and a multi-sample preheating block are now available. The units greatly reduce testing time because sample tube cleaning is not required. Also available are the high pressure and temperature viscometers (up to 50,000 psi and 350° C), the caulking viscometer, and the falling needle viscometer.

Trident Americas
833 Liberty Way
Chester, VA 23836
P: 804-530-1653
F: 804-530-1852
C: 804-836-5738
E: edward.broadhurst@tridentamericas.com
www.sonoco-trident.com/en-gb/
Trident is a supplier of brand management and graphic solutions to CPG and print customers the world over. In North America we provide rotogravure tooling through our fully automated manufacturing locations, where we combine unique state-of-the-art manufacturing and innovative software solutions to deliver a consistent high quality and affordable gravure cylinder.

Wiley & Wilson, Inc.
2310 Langhorne Rd.
Lynchburg, VA 24501-1547
P: 434-947-1901
E: pharris@wileywilson.com
www.wiley-wilson.com/printing
The company offers full-service design and construction phase services, specializing in printing plants. Capabilities include building projects, equipment installation, process layout and design, environmental infrastructure, master planning, renovations, expansions, and commissioning.
 
WRE/ColorTech
533 Banner Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27401
P: 336-275-9821
F: 336-275-1799
E: brent.mackay@wrecolor.com
www.wrecolor.com
WRE/ColorTech is a full-service digital prepress and gravure engraving supplier with more than 50 years of quality service to the printing industry. It has five established facilities strategically located to provide the best possible service for all of North America. Call us to see how we may help you maximize opportunities from your graphics, printing, and converting challenges.

Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc.
13901 Sutton Park Dr. South,
Suite C-270
Jacksonville, FL 32224
P: 800-874-3315
Yusen Logistics delivers fully integrated logistics solutions tailored to the needs of our customers and is now recognized as one of the leading logistics providers in the market. Our diverse range of logistics services include warehousing and distribution, freight forwarding, international network solutions, supply chain consulting, and IT solutions.