**CORRECTION** Pad Print Machinery of Vermont Giving Away Harley-Davidson at Plastics Expo (Attendees 75,000, not 11,000)

PAD PRINT MACHINERY OF VERMONT SURPRISES CHICAGO
Harley-Davidson to be Given Away at International Plastic Showcase in June

East Dorset, VT— The 2006 International Plastics Showcase slated for June 19-23 at the McCormick Place Exposition center in Chicago is the largest of the year and attracts more than 75,000 plastic's industry professionals from over 100 countries. There will be 2000 exhibitors spread across the 1,000,000 square feet of McCormick Place. With nearly twenty-three acres of exhibition hall facing show visitors, exhibitors need to go to great lengths to be noticed.

Pad printing and plastics go hand-in-hand so naturally, Julian Joffe, president and founder of Pad Print Machinery of Vermont, plans on having a big presence in Chicago. "This is the biggest show of the year for us," said Joffe. The company will have at least six of their high-tech machines on the exhibition floor decorating everything from wine corks to hard hats. "The NPE show is a great way for people in the plastic's industry to keep up with the innovations that have taken place," continued Joffe. "But I was looking for a way to make a really big impact. I told my ad agency what the goal was and we brainstormed some ideas at our monthly meeting. We came up with some good ideas, some wild ideas and some dumb ideas," smiled Joffe.

The one that stuck was giving away a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle. "Of all the cool things you could win, wouldn't a Harley be just about the best," asked Jon Hale, Pad Print Machinery of Vermont COO. "We're going to really alter someone's worldview at Chicago," laughed Hale.

Hale said that the Pad Print Machinery of Vermont exhibition area is always pretty lively. "When people see our new XE series in action, they're usually a little awestruck," he explained. Hale said these Windows-based systems drive a completely servo-controlled print head and conveyor. Its 20GB hard drive allows storage and instant recall of unlimited job parameters including down stroke, print and cliché pauses. "A change from one job to the next is a couple keystrokes with these machines," he said.

The company will show just how sophisticated pad printing has become with an on-going live demonstration decorating ping-pong balls, wine corks, tape measure, Frisbees, highlighting markers and hard hats. "Of course we'll want you to take some of these back with you for a close look at the precision you can obtain with this process—-even if you are the lucky winner of the Harley," said Joffe.

To view the full range of Pad Print Machinery of Vermont products and their portfolio, point your browser to 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 .01 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.

MEDIA CONTACT: pr@capcreative.com
COMPANY CONTACT: info@padprintmachinery.com or Call 800-272-7764

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