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 01/05/2010 - New Buffalo Central America celebrates it’s first year in operation

New Buffalo Shirt Factory proudly entered the global market with the opening of their state-of-the-art screen-printing facility located in the Green Valley Industrial Park in Santa Barbara, Honduras in January 2009. An amazing accomplishment in today’s apparel industry and poor economic times, so we are pleased to report a very successful first year with continued growth on the horizon! New Buffalo Central America (NBCA) is a high volume screen print facility that is all other textile printing factories can be judged by. On touring NBCA’s production floor you’ll see that it is drastically different from many screen-printing facilities. As it was designed by the highly experienced New Buffalo team for the optimum efficiency of floor space, machinery layout and maximum employee production. Extremely impressive to all the customer’s who have toured he facility this year.
The veteran team of Jon Weiss and Dale Scott had the unique opportunity to create their dream facility together from the ground up and organized a highly skilled group of screen print veterans to manage and run NBCA. The average years of experience our Honduran employees have in the textile industry is 5. The combination of years of screen-print management along with experienced employees put NBCA on the map immediately. The 400 proud New Buffalo Central America employees share in the same passion of quality and commitment as their North American counterparts. 
NBCA was built with the commitment of being as environmentally aware of their position in the world, and has incorporated many eco-friendly elements into the building and the product produced in the facility. Our commitment to quality of life starts with our employees. We have a full service 24-hour cafeteria meal service and provide a full-time nurse on all shifts. We pay an above required wage. New Buffalo employs a full-time compliance manager to handle all employee and customer needs to insure best practical social and environmental standards are met for both. From the ground breaking wastewater plant located in the park to being the industry leader in the use of phthalate free inks and organic cottons, you can be sure of New Buffalo quality and positive attitude wherever your job is produced! 
NBCA is the leader in the mass production of specialized technique printing. High-density, metallic, foils, flocks and glitters are a few of the specialty techniques that we offer. Utilizing the Honduran facility enables our customers’ greater cost considerations when commitment to deadlines can be scheduled in weeks. New Buffalo’s domestic facility in Clarence, New York is always ready for the highest quality and quick turn work that their high-profile costumers have come to expect.
 
 

1/1/2010 – NBSF Roaming & the Lil’ Inkster finish off a successful 2009 season

2009 proved to be the best  year ever for our roaming print shop, the Lil’ Inkster.  With events ranging from multi-day concert festivals to major sporting events, we logged serious miles on
the road providing our one-of-a-kind t-shirt printing experience.
Our 2009 season kicked off in high-gear with an appearance at the Bamboozle festival at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands. June saw the skunk rockin’ front row with great acts like NIN, Elvis Costello, the Beastie Boys and Phish at Bonaroo 2009 in Manchester, TN. Special thanks to Alex and the great crew at Redstar Merchandising for helping us make that happen.
After Bonaroo, we spent the 4th of July weekend in Rothbury, MI serving the tees up hot for AEG’s fantastic Rothbury festival.Thanks again Redstar!. After a couple of local gigs, we finished off the year at our perennial favorite, the Little League World Series courtesy of Russell Athletic in Williamsport, PA.
 As always, NBSF Roaming is ready in 2010 to work with you to take you’re next event to merchandise nirvana. For more information, please feel free to contact your sales rep, or call us toll-free at (800) 782-5951.
 
 

12/20/2009 - Tiltworks receives highest Disney Customer Service Honor

Longtime friends and business partners Tiltworks of Asheville, North Carolina were honored recently in Los Angeles at the Disney Stores 2009 Global Summit. At the intensive 2 day conference they were educated in the future direction of the Disney Corporation along with hundreds of Disney representatives from around the world. During the wrap-up formal dinner they were surprised and humbled to be announced as the winner of the highly regarded “Global Vendor of the Year in Customer Service” 

Bill & Debbie Hires, Tiltworks’ Managing Partners remarked,” To be recognized by Disney, who is the standard bearer for customer service and be selected from such a globally comprehensive peer group speaks to a commitment in our respective approach to our clients that we should all be very proud of.”

All of us at New Buffalo congratulate the entire Tiltworks team on a well-deserved award of recognition and are grateful for our continued relationship as your support team!



12/18/2009 - NBSF goes green with energy saving equipment

As a longtime advocate of ecologically friendly textile production, NBSF's domestic manufacturing facility completed the first phase of our 2 year mission to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
The project, introduced in the fourth quarter of 2009, involved a plant wide comprehensive energy audit and targeted specific measures to reduce electricity consumption. As part of our first phase, we replaced four old style rotary screw compressors with a new high- efficiency Sullair / Airtek compressed air system with the help of our longtime vendor Comairco Systems. This change results in a net savings of 300,000 kWh yearly, or the equivalent of removing 215 metric tons of harmful greenhouse gas emissions that we would generate each year. That is the equivalent of what over 25 households consume in electricity yearly.
Phase 2, expected to be complete by the second quarter of 2010 involves the replacement of over 80 inefficient high-bay lights with energy-star T-5HO fixtures and occupancy sensor technology. The new lighting, combined with the savings already realized from our more efficient compressor system will substantially reduce our dependence on coal-generated electricity sources, while providing a cleaner environment for our neighbors in the surrounding communities.

 

 

12/14/2009 – NBSF & NBCA push the envelope with M&R’s i-Screen direct to screen technology

NBSF and NBCA are among the select few high-volume printers utilizing M&R Print Equipment Incorporated’s i-Screen direct to screen digital imaging equipment. With multiple units installed at NBSF, and a new unit at NBCA our screen printing operations can now offer our customers the advantages in quality and performance that did not exist using obsolete film layup techniques.
With this new system, we are able to reduce screen handling, and provide greater image accuracy. The i-Screen Computer-To-Screen (CTS) imaging system uses M&R’s specially formulated water-based UV blocking ink and advanced inkjet technology  to deliver greater detail on screen, shorter exposure times and greatly reduced registration and setup steps on-press.
 The time saved in pre-press using the M&R  i-Screen translates into more efficient production, and a higher quality reproduction. For more information on how your next production run can benefit from this new technology, contact your sales rep, or call us at toll-free at (800) 782-5951.