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Anchor Printing Adds Aquaflex Presses

April 17, 2009
DUNCANSVILLE Pa.—Anchor Printing of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. took delivery of two Aquaflex ELS servo presses to add capacity for its growing flexible packaging business.

General Manager Andrew Weitz, said, "We have a broad range of printing equipment, including Heidelberg offset presses and an eight-color 30-inch CI flexo press, plus an assortment of specialized converting equipment. What we didn't have was extra capacity for the growing flexible packaging and shrink sleeve segments of our business. We knew we wanted to move up to servo technology so we looked at all the press offerings before deciding on the Aquaflex ELS Servo. We're perfectionists when it comes to print quality and we were very impressed with the ELS's ability to hold tight registration on thin film throughout the entire run. In fact, we liked the Aquaflex so much we decided to buy two of them."

Anchor Printing was founded in 1947 by Mark Weitz, Andrew's grandfather. Andrew is the third generation of Weitz management in the family-owned printing business. Andrew continued, "We look at printing and converting as a manufacturing process and we strive for zero-defect performance. Our signature customer service and quality is why we’ve been so successful. The way we look at it, good enough is never good enough—it has to be exceptional, every time."
 

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