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FEATURE NONWOVEN PRINTING
With a commitment to offer creative solutions to the most challenging of customer projects - plus an invest
ment in high quality equipment
from W&H and PCMC - Tufco Technologies delivers...
"When customers think of product innovation and where to go to get help with that, they automatically think of Tufco," says Tufco Technologies CEO Louis LeCalsey III. And rightfully so. The Wisconsin-based company has the state-of-the-art equipment, customer base, and creative strategies to back up its mission - to perform whatever project a customer may bring its way
Tufco Technologies was founded in 1992 as a result of the acquisition of Tufco Industries, a tissue and towel converter for such big tissue industry names at that time as Scott Paper, Kimberly Clark, James River, and Fort Howard. Two years later it acquired Executive Roll Mfg., Dallas, TX, a manufacturer of Xerox largevolume copy machine rolls. To complete its acquisition platform, a third addition to the growing company was established in 1995 with the purchase of Hamco Industries, Newton, NC, a point-of-sale roll and business forms manufacturer.
LeCalsey joined Tufco in late 1996 after the merger of Scott Paper and Kimberly Clark. As the former worldwide VP of logistics and North American procurement for Scott Paper, LeCalsey was brought on board at Tufco to bring in larger company systems, processes, and structures, and as he describes, "essentially to get the company to a whole new level of operation."
LeCalsey has done just that. "Tufco has moved away from the past and into totally new applications," he says. After recently closing the Dallas site, Tufco is focusing its attention on growth at its Newton Business Imaging Plant and bringing new assets into the Green Bay facility to support expansion in contract manufacturing.
The 230-employee operation in Green Bay is housed in two facilities on 11 acres of property - a 216,000-sq-ft building for its main plant and corporate offices and a close-proximity 43,000-sq-ft facility Tufco provides turnkey services in converting, printing, laminating, calendering, and packaging. Products manufactured include high value-added flexo printing of table covers, gift wrap, and assorted other poly and paperbased packaging, house wrap, medical drape materials, and surface-cleaning cloths (including both wet and dry application...