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.

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.

As a first in the industry, Nosco, a full-service supplier of printed packaging,now provides an end-to-end solution for personalized/customized products and packaging through the launch of our new brand, Sonder. Sonder is a conglomerate of three companies that have come together to offer personalization/customization programs in order to help brands build, launch and promote hyper-customized products and packaging systems for their customers. Deemed "The world's first personalized packaging supergroup," Sonder is a brain trust of experts from three companies – Nosco, Akavit and LCP Complete – formed to create the best turn-key product personalization offerings on the market.

Installation of second HP Indigo 30000 in Bristol, PA. Extends Nosco’s Position as Healthcare Packaging’s no. 1 Digital Provider!

Gurnee, Il (June 2016) - Nosco, Inc., a full-service supplier of printed packaging, plans to expand its industry-leading operations by doubling production capabilities for digital printed cartons. The company just announced, in conjunction with HP Indigo, the acquisition of a second HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press for folding carton production, making Nosco the first in the world to achieve this milestone. The new press will be installed and begin operation on August 1 in Nosco’s Digital On_Demand Solutions Center in Bristol PA.

Waukegan, IL - Nosco, Inc., a full-service supplier of printed packaging for Healthcare markets, is excited to announce its acquisition of the Healthcare packaging business of Ross PPD Corporation, a commercial and packaging printer based in Cleveland, Ohio.