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The Tip is 'Teach Grandchildren' One day, while I was on the Made In America Secrets site my granddaughter noticed and asked me what I was doing. I told her about the Big Secret and as I explained, she began to ask me more questions. After several minutes she left my office to play with her little sister. Months had gone by and until recently, I had forgotten about that moment. She was visiting again and I was talking to her about buying a custom printed T-Shirt. She immediately told me about a website that I could use to buy one. Wow I thought, she is only eight years old and already teaching me. The most amazing thing then happened, she said "Pops they sell Made In America T-Shirts". Thanks to her I purchased six custom Made In USA T-Shirts. Her name is Britton, she understands the Big Secret and I love it when she tells me her Little Secrets! Now she is ten and writing a screenplay called Mertastic. It is a story about a mermaid. Recently, she was visiting our house again and using my computer. She called me to come into my office and of course I came to her because that is what grandparents love to do. One of the reasons I love to be with her is because it is always interesting to see what she is up to. This time, she needed a mermaid tail for her movie, so we began to look around using Google. Her mother is a talented seamstress and will make the tail so we were looking for fabric that would be satisfy my granddaughter's vision of her mermaid tail. Once again we began to talk about Made in America and therefore started to investigate the country of origin of the fabrics she was considering. Because of that experience Made in USA fabric is now one of Made in America Secrets products. Thank you, Britton. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Independent Can Founded in 1929, Independent Can Company is a world leader in the manufacturing of specialty metal packaging and metal lithography. Privately held and managed by its principals, we are an American manufacturer with a long history of success that has brought us to the technological forefront in can making. Our growth, both internally and through acquisition, has allowed us to bring new capabilities and products to market. We have highly trained and experience solution providers in those markets. This growth has been achieved without adding layers of bureaucracy that impede responsiveness. We are the industry leader in capability and capacity due to our continuous investments for the benefit of our customers. Key events shaping our future: 1970's ? Joint venture with a Michigan can company to manufacture cans for frozen fruit. As a result of that partnership a can plant was built in Ft. Madison, Iowa for the production of cans for the packaging of minerals 1980's ? Acquisition of Quaker Can for the manufacture of cans for welding electrodes. Also acquired later in the decade, Western Specialty Container, a packaging distribution company near Los Angeles. 1985 ? Move from Baltimore to a 17-acre campus in Belcamp, MD. Today it houses 370,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing, printing, office and warehouse facilities. 1988 ? First stock decorative line of products was offered 1990 ? Metal lithography introduced 1993 ? First shaped decorative tin was produced 1996 ? First drawn seamless tin was produced 2004 ? State of the Art 6-color Metal Star 2 press begins operation 2004 ? Independent Can celebrates 75th Anniversary 2006 ? Acquisition of Crawford Container located in Conneaut, Ohio 2007 ? Acquisition of Bertels Can Company located in Wilkes-Barre, PA 2008 - Independent Can celebrates 80th Anniversary 2008 ? New state of the art facility in Ft. Madison Iowa 2009 ? Purchase and installation of a second Metal Star 2, 4 color printing line 2009 ? Purchase and installation of Naroska sheet-fed press 2010 ? Installation of UV trail coater on 6 color press 2010 ? New 4 color printing line operational, adding to print capacity 2010 ? New tooling for a 10? heart shaped tin 2011 ? Purchase of new high-speed, energy efficient coating line 2011 ? Addition of two new can lines 2011 ? Installation of latest prepress software allowing for the fastest and most accurate art and plate development available. 2012 ? Installation of state of the art welded fluid can line 2013 ? Installation of second Naroska sheet-fed press for closures 2013 ? Purchase of new Vandalia, Ohio facility 2014 ? Independent Can celebrates 85th anniversary |
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