History
Technigraph was started in 1950 as a screen-printing company primarily designing and screening point of purchase displays. In 1958, Technigraph was asked to print on glass bottles. As a result, we built our first bottle press using wood, nails and screws. It worked. From these small beginnings, Technigraph developed a focus on personal care, cosmetic, food, and industrial packaging. That focus continues today.
Regarded as a pioneer, Technigraph has a strong record of developing solutions to industry challenges. We were the first to successfully screen print UPC codes in the early seventies, and have a long heritage of designing and constructing custom presses. We decorated our first plastic containers in 1963, and only ten years later, began to assemble production lines allowing for eight colors to be applied in sequence. We began to transition away from solvent-based inks to UV cured inks in 1970, well before it became commonplace.
We developed effective UV inks and curing systems for PET containers in 1991. The early nineties also saw the addition of pressure sensitive labeling equipment, automatic high speed roll stampers for closure decoration, and various fully automatic container presses with a combined production capacity of 500,000 parts a day. Some of these presses can be configured to apply up to seven colors in-line. In 2008, Technigraph was acquired by Alpha Packaging, a leading blow molder of plastic bottles for the personal care, nutritional and pharmaceutical industries. As part of Alpha Packaging, we bring continue to bring high-quality container decoration services to an expanding base of customers.