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pany to produce innovative four-color displays, trays, and packaging, many on white board. This meshed nicely with the company’s Hudson-Sharp coloring machine, which colored rolls of liner or printed overall patterns using en- graved rolls—a predecessor of preprint. At some point, Greene-Line stackers were added to the presses and unpowered conveyors were installed throughout. The factory, under the direction of VP Henry Bayges, was advanced for its time, having a formal incentive sys- tem, job descriptions, and detailed procedure manual. It was also equipped with an environmentally controlled transit testing lab in accordance with TAPPI standards. After the untimely demise of Isadore Etra during the 1957 flu epidemic, the plant’s first flexo folder gluer, a 50- inch model, was installed in 1965. Inasmuch as inks and adhesives were still in the early stages of development, the printer/slotter section, provided by Koppers, incorpo- rated dummy drying stations after each print station, and the folder/gluer, provided by Universal, had a right angle section which gave the glue lap adhesive more time to dry. Because some customers were still leery of glued manufacturers’ joints, the folder gluer included a Univer- sal taper; thus, blanks could be routed in line to the ta- per, or diverted to the right angle gluing section. In 1972 a
The Marquip dry end slitter scorer, above, and the Langston 380 single facer during operations in 2020.
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