Buyer's Guide: Gravure Related Services

Daetwyler R&D Corporation
2133 Lyons Rd.
Miamisburg, OH 45342-4511
P: 937-428-1700
F: 937-439-1592
E: sales@daetwyler-rd.com
www.daetwyler-rd.com

Daetwyler R&D Corporation’s specialty is our sub-micron positional accurate cutting tool (the VISION engraving heads). The Trans-Scribe engraving system, Collage software, automated engraving, award-winning GS857 engraver, and the new GS827 engraver also were developed by Daetwyler R&D. While these products provide outstanding results and productivity for the packaging gravure industry, with R&D in our name we also look to the future. Do you have an application requiring a new way of thinking? We continue to make new advances for specialty markets and applications, many the direct results of our engineers working closely with customers to create products tailored for their specific needs.

ArmaKleen Company
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 solutions.

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 is 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 web site and click “Transparency in Transportation” for their testimonials.

FLXON, Inc.
8531 Crown Crescent Ct.
Charlotte, NC 28227
P: 704-844-2434
F: 704-844-2437
E: mark@flxon.com
www.flxon.com

FLXON is a provider of process improvement products and technical support services to leading rotogravure printers. The cornerstone of these products is the SWEDCUT® premium brand doctor blade for which FLXON is the exclusive North American (NAFTA) distributor. At FLXON, we believe in taking a systems approach to printing and as a result, offer an exclusive line of unique pumps, blade holders, filtration systems, color management systems, and consulting services. Our team of consultants brings more than 20 years of experience to you, our clients. Visit us on the web, contact us by e-mail, or phone us.

Graphic Communications
5700 Darrow Rd., Suite 110
Hudson, OH 44236
P: 330-650-5522
F: 330-650-8999
www.graphiccommunications.com

Graphic Communications is the full-service paper and print brokerage division of Norcross, GA-based Unisource Worldwide, Inc. As a broker Graphic sells more than one million tons per year of coated and uncoated paper to a wide variety of regional, national, and international companies. Our edge is the unique blend of printing and paper experience we offer. In addition to paper we sell more than $100 million of print annually. Finally, as environmentally preferable paper has become an increasingly important issue throughout the printing industry, our chain-of-custody certifications demonstrate our commitment to the environment and sustainable forestry. Graphic Communications: We’ll do the paperwork for you.

Group360
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.

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.

Multitech Engineers
B-32, Hastiraj, B. Vashi Rd.
Vile Parle (W)
Mumbai, 400056 India
P: 011-91-22-6711346
E: nitin47@vsnl.com

Buying-selling appraisal and the reconditioning and installation of rotogravure and flexo printing and laminating machines, along with metallizers, slitters, and plastic film extrusion plants.

NYK Logistics (Americas) Inc.
13901 Sutton Park Dr. South,
Suite C-270
Jacksonville, FL 32224
P: 800-874-3315
www.nyklogistics.com

NYK 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.

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

This division of the Rotation Dynamics Corporation provides turnkey design, prepress, and engraving services to a diverse customer base in the gravure industry. From two 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; and proofing and cylinder repair.

Rotation Dynamics Corporation is a worldwide manufacturer of rollers for the converting industry. Its products include brush rollers; rollers with rubber or polyurethane covering; demountable composite sleeves and mandrels; electrostatic assist systems; static discharge units; web cleaners; 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, pointof-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.

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 Graphic 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 Graphic 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 30 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 Avenue
Stirling, NJ 07980-1443
P: 908-647-3300
E: sales@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-toprint embossing on highspeed 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.

Sun Chemical
135 W. Lake St.
Northlake, IL 60164-2427
P: 708-562-0550
www.sunchemical.com

Let Sun Chemical use its experience and extensive research facilities to create ink and coating solutions for all our gravure printing needs in packaging and publishing. Sun Chemical, the world’s largest manufacturer and seller of inks, is eager to employ its wide array of resources to meet the needs of customers large and small. With more facilities in key locations across the United States than any other ink supplier, Sun Chemical has the flexibility to meet local requirements, while still providing industry-leading innovations for all gravure printing applications.

Western Michigan University
Printing Pilot Plant
1446 Welborn Hall
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
P: 269-387-2929
F: 269-387-2813
E: john.d.meyer@wmich.edu
www.wmuprinting.com

The Western Michigan University-Printing Pilot Plant houses the only independent gravure press in North America. Our 23²-wide four-color Cerutti press is widely recognized for its print quality and ability to duplicate pressroom conditions. It has been a popular research tool for substrate, ink, and chemical suppliers.
WMU also offers substrate and ink testing, product evaluations, industry training, and consulting service. John D. Meyer serves as director of the Printing Pilot Plant. (See also listing in Education & Training category.)

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 fullservice 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.