K-1 Packaging Group Adds New Technology From Esko

A second-generation family-owned company, K-1 was established in 1993 as a duplicator shop with a single used A.B. Dick one-color press. This was the shop's mainstay of production through 1997, when the company's original founders decided to move the business into packaging, following tremors that the Internet was spearheading a migration to a paperless society. While that dire prediction has not yet fully materialized, the shift for K-1 was fortuitous; from its humble beginnings as a small duplicator shop, the company has grown into a successful packaging converting specialist with 88 employees and an annual turnover of $25 million. The company serves clients in the processed food, cosmetics, nutritional and dietary supplements, and personal care products industries.