Notable Companies
Staff -- graphic arts online, 7/1/2001
Packaging firm Reed Presentations Inc., South Plainfield, N.J., has acquired heat-sealed and turned-edge products maker Don Schreiber & Company, Inc., Laurence Harbor, N.J.
George, a Printing Arts America company located in Brisbane, Calif., has announced that it will close its Abbey Press facility in Oakland, Calif. by the end of the summer.
International Paper, Stamford, Conn., has acquired Nextier Solutions Corporation, an Irvine, Calif.-based developer of Web-based collaborative commerce solutions for the paper, catalog, and magazine publishing industries.
Relational database developer C.P. Gauger, Inc., Milwaukee, has purchased General Graphics, a Milwaukee-based graphic arts and publishing firm.
The Heidelberg Digimaster 9110 print system has been bestowed the Better Buys for Business Editor's Choice award.
Suttle Press, Waunakee, Wis., has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Straus Printing Company, Madison, Wis.
Charlestown, Ind.-based Rhodes Printing Group has purchased the first two MAN Roland Lithoman-Insert presses ordered in North America. Both 66"-wide, four-page-around web machines will be installed at the company's facility in Carrollton, Tex.
The American Heart Association has announced the signing of a four-year, $24 million contract to outsource its print management and distribution activities to iGetSmart.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Workflow Management, Inc., Palm Beach, Fla.
Torque Systems, Inc., San Francisco, has acquired Digital Art Exchange, Charlestown, Mass.
Web-based print procurement firm printChannel.com, San Francisco, announced that it has reached an agreement to buy key technology assets from Campbell, Calif.-based MediaFlex, which ceased operations in February.
Printable Technologies, Inc., Solana Beach, Calif., has acquired core assets of four-year-old print e-procurement company Collabria, San Mateo, Calif. Just days prior to the deal, the latter let go of all 100 of its employees and terminated its services as a result of a lack of funding.
Sun Chemical Corporation, Fort Lee, N.J., has announced that, through its toner manufacturing company Coates Electrographics, it acquired the bulk toner manufacturing business of Turbon International Inc., York, Pa.
