Alpha added a wide array of decorating services for personal care packaging when it acquired Technigraph Corporation of Winona, Minn., earlier this year.

Technigraph’s catalog of services includes decoration on jars, closures, tubes and bottles of varying shapes and sizes. The company can decorate virtually any substrate, including PET, HDPE, Soft Touch, metals, glass, polypropylene, nylon and more. Customers can choose between or combine screen print, pressure sensitive labels, roll stamp, pad print, frosts, textures, thermo chromatics, doming effects and others. Technigraph currently decorates over 250 million pieces a year for the personal care industry.

Technigraph was started in 1950 as a screen-printing company primarily designing and screening point of purchase displays. Still regarded as a pioneer in the industry, the company is now best known for its ability to screen print up to 7 colors in line for a superior high end look. Technigraph began to transition away from solvent-based inks to more environmentally-friendly, UV cured inks in 1970, well before it became commonplace, and now uses only UV cured inks in screen printing.

For added impact, Technigraph’s hot stamping capabilities set the standard for the hot stamping industry. With a radiant brilliance that cannot be duplicated with ink, hot stamping will give your product the look of quality and prestige. And the company’s pad printing expertise allows it to print on custom shapes with various radii and curves where screen printing or pressure sensitive labeling are not viable options.

Alpha Packaging is a $100 million blow molder of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and jars for the personal care, pharmaceutical, nutritional supplement, and niche food and beverage markets. It has a total of six locations across the United States.