New York's DWS celebrates sesquicentennial

In the last six years DWS Printing has diversified into flexographic pressure-sensitive labels, it has upgraded to state-of-the-art offset equipment, and most recently has invested in a multi-substrate fully servo-driven Omet press to produce shrink labels and roll-fed film packaging. And that’s not all.

David Weil’s Sons Lithographic Company started manufacturing in Manhattan in 1865. Today fourth generation leaders of the Staib family own and operate the labels and packaging business now known as DWS Printing located on Long Island in New York.

Prior to 2009, DWS produced offset cut and stack labels, mostly for the food and beverage market. Tom Staib, DWS president, seized the slump in the economy as an opportunity to invest and diversify.

Al Staib, third generation DWS president and father to Tom, Andy and Kathy Staib, siblings who are all involved in the business, comments: ‘They’ve taken on a lot more risk than my brother and I would have in the past. I would have been too scared to make the decisions they’ve made to protect the longevity of the business.’

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