Season's Greeting !

Here is the greeting to all from Hal Pilcher. I join him in wsihing all a great health and happiness. Ken A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW 2023 in health for you all and piece on earth 🎄 🎅👩‍🚀🎅👩‍🚀🎅👩‍🚀 🎄

Halloween greetings from Hal Pilcher

Hal's Halloween greetings arrived today. Happy 86th to you Hal. When many people in this days are thinking about Martin Luther, we as people of the former printing Industry shell also think about Johannes Gensfleisch Gutenberg who made it his flexible letters possible to print the ideas of Martin Luther in great numbers, as well as other ideas of freedom. Benjamin Franklin, one of the founder of the United States of America, a Printer and, and, and. and also I idol of me. That is why I had to see the Bell of Freedom in Philadelphia. Alois Senefelder, Letterpress Printer, Founder of the Lithographic process to print on Stone. All this procedures made it possible, to have that high standard and level of culture and knowledge. Early last century the first tries to print from metal plates, grained with marbles and coated by hand in a rotation metal basket, this was the base of our big business. when Offset becomes more popular as Letterpress and Gravure Printing. When others thinking about Halloween, I do think about our Heritage. When our last ideas been with "C to P " Computer to Plate... I do hope the IT Industry have better ideas for the human race as "K to R" key to rocket and drones. Sorry for my late response, yesterday I celebrated in silence my 86th Birthday, some of my toe in bandage service as being on diabetes, since I hit all highways and clouds to help others when thay are in troubles to print properly. I do think more often how to get my ash into the Mississippi at the hight's of St. Louis, the Arch should be my last "view" Does anyone is willing to spread my ash from a paddle wheeler in direction Arch into the Mississippi ? I saved one of my toe from amputate it. Self discipline can do a lot, now this toe smiles at me and look better as before. Not all tribes of covid19 can be protected with 4 shot or more, it will have to be distance of two meters and mask on all places also for kids. eccept at home, wish you all the best and stay in good health. Always Hal P to C = PC Bless you all

Yonkers factory July 1989 pictures

DIC engineer Mr.Takeshi Kawaguchi found photo records of his visit to Yonkers factory in 1989. Pictured together are Dr. Huang and Mr. Tanimoto of DIC.

Katzenstein factory in 1989

More photos from Mr. Kawaguchi. This time the Katzenstein factory and its surroundings. Mr. Kawaguchi visited the factory in 1989 ahead of Gunma plant startup and was very impressed by the cleam and neat new factory, he writes. Thank you again Mr. Kawaguchi

More Yonkers photos from Mr. Kawaguchi

Mr. Kawaguchi sent in more pictures he took in 1988-89 while he was readying to begin planning of th Gunma plant. Those who are familiar with Yonker HQ may recognize the cafeteria area, outside views and some well used machinaries. You instantly recognize why we were looking around to locae a new modern factory. You of course know that we later located and constructed the Columbus, Georgia, factory later on and aboandoned the Yonker facilities altogether. Thank you again Mr. Kawaguchi!

Berwick on Tweed factory, photos from Mr. Kawaguchi

Mr. Kawaguchi sent in his collectin of Berwick photos, very rare in this blog as I had no photos to upload before. Thank you Mr. Kawaguchi. Here is his comment and the pictures. K.S.................................................................................................. These are pictures of the Berwick factory. It was located in an industrial complex on the outskirts of Berwick-upon-Tweed in England, 50 miles from Edinburgh, Scotland. The Tweed River runs nearby. The road from Edinburgh runs through typical Scottish countryside. The Polychrome factory was closed, but the building is still in use by other businesses. When I visited there, the factory was carrying out a PUMA project to improve productivity, and the statue of a puma was displayed. The office was decorated with pictures painted by local elementary school pupils.

Yonkers facility around 1988 from Mr. Kawaguchi

I received a note from Mr.Takeshi Kawaguchi with photos of Yonkers facility around 1988. Thank you very much Mr. Kawaguchi for sharing these memories. Dear Mr. Shimazu My name is Takeshi Kawaguchi. I was dispatched to Yonkers by DIC in 1988 to prepare for the construction of a printing plate factory in Gunma. I'm about 70 years old now, and retired. I sometimes file and sort photos I took before and upload to Google maps. While I was looking around Yonkers, New York on the Internet, I found your Polychrome archive. Thank you very much for creating such a precious record. Here are some pictures of the Yonkers factory while I was there. I would like to express my deepest thanks to all the Polychrome people. I remember you often kindly invited us for lunch. I also thank Mr. Simon Chu, whose business and leadership attitude greatly impressed me. If you know Jen-chi Huang's email address, please let me know, for I would like to convey my gratitude. I am not sure if your computer has a Japanese language environment, so I am writing this in English. Corona's outlook is completely unknown, and anxiety and confusion continue. I hope you are paying attention and staying healthy. Sincerely yours, Takeshi Kawaguchi

Photos of old Osterode factory ....from Mr. Kawaguchi

Mr. Kawaguchi of DIC, now retired, is sharing his collection of the photos he took while he was working in Yonkers. This photos of old Osetrode factory brings me memories. The factory was torn down after the launch of larger, modern and hight productivity factory in nearby Katzenstein. Now a local shopping center stands at the location.