Greg Hrinya, Associate Editor10.06.17
Control Group USA
500 Walnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648 USA
www.controlgroupusa.com
Control Group, a label and flexible packaging converter that has been in business for nearly 50 years, has made its name thinking outside the box and investing in research and development.
Established in 1971, Bill Cheringal and Jeff Levine took over the business in 1987, with a goal of printing flexo labels. As customers were shifting from cut labels to roll-to-roll, the pair molded the business, capitalizing on Levine’s expertise in pharmaceutical labels.
Control Group benefited from significant growth in pharma labels, and the partners decided to expand into flexible packaging by investing in a 20", 8-color Mark Andy press in 1998. “They purchased it without having any packaging business, but they knew that was the future,” explains Jim Imburgia, COO at Control Group. “That enabled us to do pouches and some of the other finer packaging.”
Further growth necessitated a move to Control Group’s current location in 2008. Inhabiting a facility t
500 Walnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648 USA
www.controlgroupusa.com
Control Group, a label and flexible packaging converter that has been in business for nearly 50 years, has made its name thinking outside the box and investing in research and development.
Established in 1971, Bill Cheringal and Jeff Levine took over the business in 1987, with a goal of printing flexo labels. As customers were shifting from cut labels to roll-to-roll, the pair molded the business, capitalizing on Levine’s expertise in pharmaceutical labels.
Control Group benefited from significant growth in pharma labels, and the partners decided to expand into flexible packaging by investing in a 20", 8-color Mark Andy press in 1998. “They purchased it without having any packaging business, but they knew that was the future,” explains Jim Imburgia, COO at Control Group. “That enabled us to do pouches and some of the other finer packaging.”
Further growth necessitated a move to Control Group’s current location in 2008. Inhabiting a facility t
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