Commercial Printer Does Packaging

Today the company employs 110 people on two shifts, with about 20 dedicated to the printer's packaging work. About a year ago, 10 percent of Tepel Brothers's business was in packaging, and it is now near 20 percent. Looking ahead five years, Tepel expects to print more and more packaging. "I have one person on board today that just joined our team about four months ago, and he is almost strictly a packaging sales person. And plastics is his specialty. So we are going pursue that nationally and work with as many resellers and other packaging companies as we can that have special packaging work. I do see us evolving much more toward that than back in the commodity print market," he says."