Herald Statesman (remember!?) article courtesy of Doug Chu
Polychrome Announces Plans
For New Central Laboratory
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Mr. Halpern said his company is "in Yonkers to stay and help build a more prosperous city."
He proposed a community project to maintain and improve the quality of industry, improve present and create future educational and vocational institutions, attract competent teachers, provide means and tools for teaching, trades, plan a program of on-the-job training and establish facilities geared to young men returning from military service. He said Polychrome is ready to be part of such a project.
Mr. Halpern said Polychrome has six locations in the United States and two overseas and its executives " are located within a 20 mile radius of Yonkers."
Mr. Graves said Polychrome's growth in the 1950s was spearheaded by expansion of the Gestetner Corp. here.
"Yonkers has become the center of the mimeograph stencil duplicating industry in the U.S.since we believe we produce more stencils than anyone else in the country and hopefully Gestetner (KS note; Polychrome's biggest customer, Gestetner sold mimeographic stencil masters under their own label ) sells more stencil duplicating machines than anyone else ," he said.
He said the 34 -year-old firm has 12.000 active customers, many of whom operate entire printing plants exclusively with Polychrome products. He said Polychrome is one of the country's leading inventor and producers of presensitized plates designed for the lithographic printing industry and the plates were developed by the technological staff here.
The plant here has 300 employees, including 17 chemists, while Polychrome has 500 other employees in subsidiaries and its direct sales organization of 32 offices and warehouses.
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