PAD PRINT MACHINERY of VERMONT Expands

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PAD PRINT MACHINERY OF VERMONT EXPANDS
Vermont Facility Adding Ten Thousand Square Feet

East Dorset VT-Julian Joffe, founder and president of Pad Print Machinery of Vermont, announced today his company is in the midst of a major expansion to their facility in this small southern Vermont village nestled in the beautiful Battenkill Valley. “It seems like we had just barely settled in,” said Joffe, “but we’ve experienced such a rapid growth spurt that we quickly outgrew our new plant.” Pad Print Machinery relocated to their current 22,500 square foot building in 2003 when their previous facility, which at one time saw duty as a movie theater in Manchester, VT five miles south, was no longer tractable. “We’ve got almost twice as many employees now as we did in the old building,” Joffe explained. “I thought we’d be OK space-wise for at least a few more years, but obviously I underestimated,” he said.

Construction on the project began at the end of June and is slated to be completed September 30 this year. The company is acting general contractor and sub contracting most of the work.

“We need this,” said Jon Hale, COO of the Vermont-based company. “This is just about going to double our space.” Hale continued to say that the new area will give them the space to greatly increase their supplies inventories as well as allowing expansion of the machine shop. “Increasing the machine shop means we can bump up our capacity and shorten our delivery time,” explained Hale.

Marketplace demand for their new XE series machines has been exceptionally strong. The new PC-based pad printer line features servo controls that enable prodigious production. “In today’s world economy, high volume cost-efficient manufacturing is essential. With these machines, you not only get remarkably high output, but you get it with laser-like precision and accuracy,” said Hale enthusiastically.

He said another reason manufacturing companies are flocking to the XE Series is quick, simple modifications. “The 20-gigabyte hard drive on this Series means you can save some serious time. It stores and instantly recalls a virtually unlimited number of jobs and parameters. Changeover from one job to the next is extremely quick,” added Hale. The built-in network card allows on-line monitoring, trouble shooting and program updates as well as the ability to communicate with the operator even during production. “This is a remarkable machine and one of the major reasons we need more room,” exclaimed Hale.

For in-depth details on the XE Series, visit the enhanced and information-laden Pad Print Machinery of Vermont website at www.padprintmachinery.com.

About Pad Print Machinery of Vermont

Julian Joffe is the founder and president of Pad Print of Vermont. Although Joffe earned his degree in zoology, he had had a penchant for manufacturing as a result of the many hours he spent tinkering in his father’s workshop in South Africa as a youth. Upon graduation from University in 1976, he went to work in his father’s textile business and subsequently took over leadership of the company—-expanding the business to include pad printing. In 1981, citing strong philosophical differences with the apartheid government, Joffe moved his family to United States and, in 1985, embarked on an alliance with COMEC Italia. He founded COMEC USA in a pre-world war one building in Yonkers, NY.

Over the next ten years business flourished. However, Joffe began to feel the magnetism of the New England way of life beckon. In 1994, he could no longer resist the urge to live a simpler, more enriched lifestyle and moved to Vermont

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont was born in what had been, during the fifties and sixties, the sole movie theater in picturesque Manchester, VT. As the company continued to grow in both number of employees and amount of machines being built at any given point in time, they began to suffer a terminal case of claustrophobia. A concerted search for an appropriately-sized facility in southern or central Vermont finally paid off and, in 2003, they moved into a new 22,500 square foot building located in East Dorset, Vermont just five miles north of the cramped quarters in the old theater.

The new airy and spacious hi-tech facility has a reception area, a large showroom, Machine Shop, Graphics Department, Plate Department, Ink Department, Sales Department, Shipping Department, and administrative offices. For many Pad Print employees, it has become a home away from home. The Pad Print team now comprises 32 highly skilled and motivated individuals with an incredible sense of team spirit. Their experience in the pad printing industry is second to none.

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont’s newest pad printing machines have combined technologies from the latest innovations in mechanical engineering and electronics. These machines are servo controlled and are extremely fast, extremely precise, and extremely reliable. PPMoV has led the pad printing industry with such breakthrough innovations as the ability to print on medical devices as small as .001 inch to fully automated eight-color machines.

In pursuing the goal of perfection in Customer Service and Satisfaction, the company constantly pushes the edge of the envelope and discovers more and more ways to incorporate pad printing into the customer manufacturing process. They look forward to the next 100 years.


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