Expands print capacity for folded literature and Lit-a-Sure product lines to enable faster turnaround times.

GURNEE, IL ­– February 3, 2020 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today that it has acquired the assets of Haapanen Brothers, Inc., a full-service graphic arts and printing company located in Gurnee, Illinois. Through this investment, Nosco will be better equipped to serve the needs of its expanding customer base adding:

• Expanded print capacity for folded literature and Lit-a-Sure product lines.
• A seventh site to Nosco’s growing U.S. presence for redundancy in operations.
• Specialty bindings, sales aids and other commercial marketing materials for the healthcare industry.

Enters flexible packaging market to enable secure, consistent, sustainable printing for customers  

PALO ALTO, Calif. and GURNEE, Ill., July 11, 2019 — Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today it is entering the printed flexible packaging space using HP Indigo technologies. As it deepens its digital footprint in the U.S., Nosco will utilize the HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press and Pack Ready to deliver on-demand flexible packaging.

This release was featured on labelsandlabeling.com on May 28, 2019.

This release was featured on labelsandlabeling.com on February 28, 2019.

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