Weber Packaging Solutions history

• 1938 – First handprinter – the Tag-O-Graph Jr. – for directly marking containers is introduced.

• 1952 – First electro-mechanical in-plant label printing machine is introduced to enable companies to print their own product identification and address labels.

• 1955 – Introduction of the Tab-On concept, a stencil affixed to a shipping form enabling a label to be prepared as a by-product of the form; also moved to a larger facility in Mt.

• 1964 – Stenmark® stencil system makes it possible to print more legible information directly onto shipping containers.

Prospect to a brand new facility in nearby Arlington Heights in 1967.

• 1973 – Weber opens a 45,000-square-foot facility in the United Kingdom.

• 1975 – Introduction of labels pre-printed with company logos and graphics; variable data could then be added with a Weber electro-mechanical printer.

• 1979 – Weber acquistion of Tape & Label Engineering in Florida provides full-color, prime label printing capabilities for the decorating of consumer products.

Weber Marking Systems GmbH is the headquarter of the European subsidiaries and was founded in 1980.

• 1987 – Introduction of the first thermal-transfer label printer, which provided higher-quality bar codes, text and graphic images to be printed on a wide range of label stocks.

• 1990 – Became the largest distributor of Label-Aire® label printing and application equipment.

• 1997 – Added improved label press capabilities in the forms of UV flexo and UV screen functions; opened manufacturing facility in Bangkok, Thailand.

• 2000 – Weber installs Oracle Business Systems software.

• 2004 – Weber introduces RFID printer-encoders and applicators.

• 2009 – Weber enhances its label printing capabilities with the HP Indigo ws4500 digital label press for high-quality, short-run flexibility.

• 2013 – Weber adds an additional HP WS6000 digital label press for expanded label printing capabilities.

Weber celebrates 20th anniversary of continuous ISO 9001:2015 certification.