Other
Polychrome acquisition attempts By Mr. Bob Gumbinner
In
the 1960s, we made two small acquisitions which we kept only for a
short time. We acquired a company in New Jersey that made printed
circuit boards to learn about copper plating in order to make
bimetallic plates. When we sold this company, we retained Fred
Raffenello who had many years experience with plating lines. He set
up tanks to electro etch the aluminum plates. These were processed
on he A-line. He also ran a copper plating operation which was set
up in the Cellofilm Newark plant for bimetal presensitized plates.
The
other company was a small machine shop in Fanwood, NJ where we built
ovens for polymerizing the positive coating. Mr. Halpern and I also
went to State College Penn. to look at a plant in State College, PA,
that made surfactants and Fairmont Chemical in Newark, NJ that made
diazos. Neither of these two negotiations was successful.