GURNEE, IL – November 18, 2020 – Nosco, Inc., a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., announced today plans to open a new site in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin in the spring of 2021. The new facility will provide offset cartons, digital labels, and serve as the corporate headquarters for Nosco. The site will also house Nosco’s Graphic Services, Solutions Engineering and the administrative staff.

Continues commitment to customers through complete solution for flexible packaging product line.

Nosco recently announced that it will purchase a Karlville KS-DSUP-400 Pouching Machine for its flexible packaging operation in Carrollton, Texas. Through this investment, the company will gain the ability to control the entire manufacturing process for its flexible packaging product line from sourcing through to pouch converting. This seamlessly aligns with Nosco’s Time Matters initiatives of best-in-class service for both cycle time and on time delivery.

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.