GURNEE, IL ­– December 17, 2018 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today that it will continue its digital print leadership and serialization initiatives through a strategic partnership with global health and wellness company Isagenix International. Through this partnership, the Chicago-based printed packaging provider will incorporate HP Indigo brand protection technologies across Isagenix’s new digitally-printed cartons, labels and multi-panel labels.

GURNEE, IL ­– November 1, 2018 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today that it will expand its brand protection portfolio with a new covert security solution utilizing HP Indigo Invisible Inks. To support the launch, the digital print leader will dedicate a production line on its HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press to print covert security elements utilizing HP Indigo ElectroInk Invisible Yellow (visible only under UV light) and HP Indigo Security ElectroInk 523 (infrared ink). The solution will offer brand owners total transparency with full covert serialization printing of both barcodes and serial numbers.

Innovative U.S.-Based Packaging Provider Licenses VerifyMe RainbowSecure™ Ink Technology to Authenticate Products and Prevent Product Diversion

This article was featured in the March 2018 edition of Beauty Packaging magazine, written by Marie Redding, Associate Editor, and highlights work between Nosco and customer, FACE Stockholm. 

 Digital printing represents a key growth area for the print industry and offers new opportunities for packaging converters and brands. It is an attractive alternative to conventional printing, and is being used more often on all types of packaging and materials.

GURNEE, IL ­–  December 27, 2017 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today that it has achieved G7^® Master Qualification, awarded by Idealliance^®, a not-for-profit industry group dedicated to guiding print production best practices, specifications, and standards, worldwide. Through this qualification, Nosco joins a select group of print service providers who have successfully completed print production training, examination and qualification processes, validating their capabilities to the highest level of global industry standards and specifications.

GURNEE, IL ­– November 1, 2017 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today that it has acquired assets of Knight Packaging Group, Inc., a Chicago-based offset folding carton printer with more than 50 years of experience in the industry. With this investment, Nosco will be more broadly equipped to serve the needs of its growing customer base by adding:   

• New products and capabilities
• Significantly greater capacity to produce folding cartons
• An additional carton facility for redundancy in operations, completing a goal to have facility redundancy for all significant product offerings

GURNEE, IL ­–  October 23, 2017 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today that it has acquired Gooding Company, Inc., a New York-based insert and outsert manufacturer with over 141 years of printing experience. Through the acquisition of Gooding, Nosco will add an additional manufacturing facility on the east coast that will help reduce lead times, lower packaging costs and provide an expanded portfolio of folded literature.

GURNEE, IL ­–  September 22, 2017 – In an effort to improve and standardize package labeling and documentation across all Nosco manufacturing sites, we are pleased to announce several changes to our shipping documentation procedures.

GURNEE, IL ­–  September 2017 – Nosco recently purchased a state-of-the-art Komori six-color offset printing press for its Carton Business Unit in Waukegan, Illinois. This new asset will replace an existing conventional press that will be retired from use.

GURNEE, IL ­–  April 4, 2017 – Nosco is proud to announce that it is now the first fully-certified GMI (Graphic Measures International) print facility in the United States for conventional offset litho and digital carton printing. This announcement comes after Nosco’s digital carton press earned a full certification from GMI in March of 2017, which adds to Nosco’s current full conventional certification from July of 2016.