• Login
    • Join
  • FOLLOW:
  • Subscribe Free
    • Magazine
    • eNewsletter
    Checkout
    • Magazine
    • News
    • Exclusives
    • Top Companies
    • Printing Inks
    • Raw Materials
    • Equipment
    • Directories
    • Events
    • Jobs
    • More
  • Magazine
  • News
  • Exclusives
  • Top Companies
  • Printing Inks
  • Raw Materials
  • Equipment
  • Directories
  • Events
  • Jobs
  • Current / Back Issues
    Features
    Columns
    Editorial
    Digital Edition
    eNewsletter Archive
    Our Team
    Editorial Guidelines
    Subscribe Now
    Advertise Now
    eBook
    Top Features
    The Digital Packaging Market is Continuing to Grow

    Carl Hirsch - Ink Systems, Inc.

    The 2023 Additives Market

    John Hrdlick Receives NAPIM’s 2023 Ault Award

    Can Solar Ink Help the EU's Green Ambitions?
    Breaking News
    Distributor News
    Financial News
    Industry News
    Ink Manufacturers News
    Market Research
    Mergers and Acquisitions
    New Products
    Personnel
    Price Increases
    Printers News
    Suppliers News
    Live From Shows
    Video Bites
    Top News
    Micro Powders Showcases New Natural, PTFE Alternative Additives at 2023 WCS

    Roland DG Direct-To-Film Printer Ink, Powder Receive ECO PASSPORT Certification

    INX Will Show Inkjet, Sustainable Packaging Solutions at PRINTING United

    Sapphire Ink – SB Eco Series Receives Oeko-Tex Eco Passport ZDHC Level 3 Certification

    Flint Group Digital with Xeikon Present at FEFCO Technical Seminar
    Whitepapers
    Glossary
    Top North American Companies
    Top International Companies
    Conductive Inks and Printed Electronics
    Graphic Arts Coatings
    Inkjet Inks and Toners
    Marking and Pad Printing Inks
    News Inks
    Packaging Flexo Inks
    Packaging Gravure Inks
    Publication Gravure Inks
    Publication Offset Inks
    Screen Inks
    Sheetfed Inks
    Specialty Inks
    UV and EB Inks

    Roland DG Direct-To-Film Printer Ink, Powder Receive ECO PASSPORT Certification

    INX Will Show Inkjet, Sustainable Packaging Solutions at PRINTING United

    Sapphire Ink – SB Eco Series Receives Oeko-Tex Eco Passport ZDHC Level 3 Certification

    Flint Group Digital with Xeikon Present at FEFCO Technical Seminar

    HP Inc. Names David Meline to Board of Directors
    Additives
    Energy-Curable Materials
    Flushed Colors and Pigments
    Metallics and Special Effects Pigments
    Resins
    Vehicles and Varnishes
    Waxes

    Micro Powders Showcases New Natural, PTFE Alternative Additives at 2023 WCS

    Orion S.A. to Invest €12.8 Million in Circular Carbon Black Plan

    Micro Powders’ Sustainability Efforts Earn EcoVadis Silver Ranking

    Evonik Sees Significant Profit Decline in 2Q 2023

    Changes in the Additive Industry Over the Years
    Energy-Curing Equipment
    Mills and Mixers
    Testing, Color and QC

    GARDCO Precision Gel Timers Boost Accuracy, Repeatability

    ROSS Offers Versatile and Cost-Effective High Solids Mixing

    Paul N. Gardner USA Introduces New color2view

    Inkmaker Completes Third Mixing-Dispersion Station at Samograph

    BYK-Gardner Launches VMA Dispersion Laboratory
    Buyers Guide
    Distributor Guide
    European Ink Directory
    U.S. Ink Directory
    International Buyers Guide Companies
    ChromaScape LLC

    Orion Engineered Carbons

    Brilliant Group, Inc.

    Engineered Polymer Solutions

    Munzing
    Industry Events
    Live from Show Event
    Webinars
    Top Events
    Labelexpo Americas 2024
    • Magazine
      • Current / Back Issues
      • Features
      • Editorial
      • Columns
      • Digital Edition
      • eNewsletter Archive
      • Editorial Guidelines
      • Subscribe Now
      • Advertise Now
    • Breaking News
    • Directory
      • Buyers Guide
      • Distributor Guide
      • European Ink Directory
      • U.S. Ink Directory
      • Trade Associations
    • Printing Inks
      • Conductive Inks and Printed Electronics
      • Graphic Arts Coatings
      • Inkjet Inks and Toners
      • Marking and Pad Printing Inks
      • News Inks
      • Packaging Flexo Inks
      • Packaging Gravure Inks
      • Publication Gravure Inks
      • Publication Offset Inks
      • Screen Inks
      • Sheetfed Inks
      • Specialty Inks
      • UV and EB Inks
    • Raw Materials
      • Additives
      • Energy-Curable Materials
      • Flushed Colors and Pigments
      • Metallics and Special Effects Pigments
      • Resins
      • Vehicles and Varnishes
      • Waxes
    • Equipment
      • Energy-Curing Equipment
      • Mills and Mixers
      • Testing, Color and QC
    • Top Companies
      • Top North American Companies
      • Top International Companies
    • Glossary
    • Online Exclusives
    • Slideshows
    • Expert's Opinion
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
    • eBook
    • Blog
    • Infographics
    • Whitepapers
    • Jobs
    • Supplier Microsites
      • Companies
      • Literature / Brochures
      • Whitepapers
      • Product Spec Sheets
      • Videos
      • Jobs
    • Events
      • Industry Events
      • Live From Show Events
      • Webinars
    • About Us
      • About Us
      • Contact Us
      • Advertise With Us
      • Privacy Policy
      • Terms of Use
    Online Exclusives

    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!

    Company has grown from an idea in a bar to one of the world’s leading screen, digital and flexo ink manufacturers.

    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    A silk screen process ink can from the early days of Nazdar. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    A Nazdar ad from 1923, right after the company was founded. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    Howard Parmele. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    Nazdar's R&D lab in Chicago, circa 1955. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    A Nazdar newspaper ad from 1924, two years after the company's beginnings. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    Nazdar's ink mills, circa 1955. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    A Nazdar employee runs an ink mixer, circa 1955. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    Naz-Dar co-founder John Pottage. (Source: Nazdar)
    Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!
    Jay Tharp, Nazdar Marketing Communications Director12.20.22
    Ideas born over a cold one aren’t to be taken seriously are they? Well, they are when you’re talking about John Pottage Sr. and Ed Owens. On a blustery Chicago night in 1922, the pair sat together enjoying a beer at their favorite Bohemian bar, ruminating about their futures. When the conversation turned to a unique and obscure decorative process known as screen printing, they hit upon an idea: starting a company to provide screen printing ink.

    Immediately, Pottage committed $1000 to the venture, and the conversation shifted to naming the enterprise. As they contemplated this question, they noticed a coaster on the bar imprinted with the word “Nazdrovia,” the Bohemian word for success. Today – and 100 years and millions of dollars later- these events have grown into Nazdar, North America’s largest screen-printing ink manufacturer and one of the largest of all ink companies in the nation.

    Although Pottage and Owens dreamed up Naz-Dar (which lost the hyphen years later, after several name transitions), they had limited involvement with the firm after its inception. Owens briefly ran the company and hired its first chemist, Welling Parmele, who helped develop Naz-Dar’s first ink – a formulation for printing P-O-P items and identity logos on automobile tire covers. Soon after, his brother Howard was hired to handle sales for the fledgling operations.

    Howard had a knack for the screen-printing ink business, and he became president of Naz-Dar in 1925 – a position he held for 28 years. Not only did he strive to make Naz-Dar a successful ink manufacturer, he also explored new ink types and applications for screen printing and marketed Naz-Dar’s products nationwide.

    As a testament to Parmele’s life work and contribution to the industry, the Screen Printing Association (now Printing United) inaugurated the Howard Parmele Award for lifetime achievement in the industry, in 1955. For many years, this award was recognized as the industry’s highest honor and is presented annually in recognition of an individual’s achievements and contribution to the industry.

    As time passed, Naz-Dar earned a reputation for meeting the needs of screen printers through specialized products. For example, explosive growth in the plastics market during and after World War II created a flood of new applications for screen printing, and Naz-Dar was instrumental in developing new inks for materials that emerged. During the 1950s and 1960s, Naz-Dar sales had increased to approximately $400,000 annually.

    Over the next two decades, Naz-Dar focused on developing a national and international distribution network, including Naz-Dar East (Pennsauken, NJ), Naz-Dar West (Garden Grove, CA), and licensing agreements in France, Belgium, and Australia. Their network of independent distributors was burgeoning as well. Scientific research centers also gained importance for the company as more screen printers faced an array of printing challenges and demanded highly specialized ink systems.

    In 1977, Thrall Enterprises acquired Naz-Dar, positioning the company to expand globally. By that time, Naz-Dar had branch offices coast-to-coast and recorded approximately $8 million in annual sales. Jeff Thrall continued these expansion and development efforts when he was named company president in 1980.

    “The screen-printing industry was experiencing many of the changes affecting other parts of the economy,” explained Jeff. “It’s become more service oriented. The customers need products faster and more specifically tailored to their individual needs and production schedules. Naz-Dar is responding in the way that we develop and manufacture inks and in the range of peripheral products and service that we offer through a strong network of knowledgeable and experienced distributors.”

    Naz-Dar, which acquired KC Coatings in 1982, became Naz-Dar/KC and expanded its offerings with KC’s innovative products such as jet-drying poster inks, heat-set enamel inks for outdoor signage, and screen printing systems for aircraft interiors. It also developed the first UV-curable screen printing ink in the marketplace. Throughout the ‘80s, Naz-Dar acquired multiple midwestern US specialty graphics businesses. In the late 1980s, the company was re-branded and became Nazdar.

    In 1994, Nazdar broke ground on a new 110,000 sq. ft. corporate headquarters, manufacturing, and R&D facility in Shawnee, KS, USA. Today, the facility is the central hub for all Nazdar business functions and manufacturing.

    Other company changes included the 2001 launch of their Digital inkjet products, which provided graphics products and technical support around the world. As part of this initiative, Nazdar purchased Lyson Ltd. in Stockport, England in 2006 and acquired Easterday Fluid Technologies in 2012. Lyson, a leading manufacturer of inkjet inks, and Easterday, a manufacturer of coding and marking inks, were strategic leaps forward for Nazdar digital inkjet future.

    In 2005, Nazdar launched its Narrow Web (Flexographic) inks business, hiring business development and chemist talent to bring its strong inks and coating capabilities to bear on this vast market opportunity. This portion of their business has seen continual growth and development in the Digital/Inkjet realm.

    Today, Nazdar manufactures and sells hundreds of thousands of cartridges and liters of inks around the world annually to both end-users and OEM manufacturers.

    The Nazdar Company manufactures the most comprehensive selection of UV, UV-LED, water-based and solvent-based screen printing inks, narrow web inks, and wide-format digital inks obtainable from a single source. Nazdar manufactures hundreds of millions of dollars of inks that are primarily used by printers in the Point of Purchase (POP), Banner, Container, Industrial, Metal, Nameplate / Membrane Switch, Packaging, Roll Label, Sign, Ad Specialty, and Textile decorating markets.

    Through all this growth, Nazdar has continuously implemented sustainable solutions in the development and distribution of products, as well as providing guidance to our customers in their own sustainability efforts. Printing products inherently come with challenges; however, Nazdar remains committed to overcoming these obstacles and minimizing its ecological footprint.

    Nazdar understands that its future success will come from focusing on all aspects of Sustainability: People (Customers and Employees), Planet (the Environment), and Prosperity.

    Nazdar says, “Nazdrovia!” and here’s to another 100 years of health and happiness.

            
    Related Searches
    • Screen Inks
    • Inkjet Inks and Toners
    Related Knowledge Center
    • Inkjet Inks and Toners
    • Screen Inks
      Loading, Please Wait..
      Breaking News
      • Micro Powders Showcases New Natural, PTFE Alternative Additives at 2023 WCS
      • Roland DG Direct-To-Film Printer Ink, Powder Receive ECO PASSPORT Certification
      • INX Will Show Inkjet, Sustainable Packaging Solutions at PRINTING United
      • Sapphire Ink – SB Eco Series Receives Oeko-Tex Eco Passport ZDHC Level 3 Certification
      • Flint Group Digital with Xeikon Present at FEFCO Technical Seminar
      View Breaking News >
      CURRENT ISSUE

      July 2023

      • The Digital Packaging Market is Continuing to Grow
      • The 2023 Additives Market
      • John Hrdlick Receives NAPIM’s 2023 Ault Award
      • Ralph Arcurio – Sun Chemical
      • Jim Bishop – Sun Chemical
      • Neil Hersh - ECKART America
      • Carl Hirsch - Ink Systems, Inc.
      • Jim Kochanny, INX International Ink Co.
      • Can Solar Ink Help the EU's Green Ambitions?
      • Mexar’s Emphasis on Pigment-Based Digital Textile Inks Pays Off
      • View More >

      Cookies help us to provide you with an excellent service. By using our website, you declare yourself in agreement with our use of cookies.
      You can obtain detailed information about the use of cookies on our website by clicking on "More information”.

      • About Us
      • Privacy Policy
      • Terms And Conditions
      • Contact Us

      follow us

      Subscribe
      Nutraceuticals World

      Latest Breaking News From Nutraceuticals World

      PLT Health Solutions Granted Claims for Botanical Ingredient in Canada
      CRN Files Petition with FTC For Clarity on Health Products Compliance Guidance
      Vitafoods Europe Relocates to Barcelona Starting 2025
      Coatings World

      Latest Breaking News From Coatings World

      Micro Powders Showcases Natural, PTFE Alternative Additives at 2023 WCS
      U.S. Green Building Council and RMI Release Report to Drive Action on Embodied Carbon in Buildings
      Tim Knavish Elected PPG Chairman and CEO
      Medical Product Outsourcing

      Latest Breaking News From Medical Product Outsourcing

      3D Systems Partners with Klarity to Expand Distribution of VSP Bolus Solution
      Zeus Introduces Absorv XSE Oriented Tubing
      Laminate's VasQ Nabs De Novo Nod to Create AVFs for Dialysis Access
      Contract Pharma

      Latest Breaking News From Contract Pharma

      Ono, Admid Partner on Novel Antibody Drugs in Oncology
      Theradaptive Awarded DOD Clinical Trial Award of up to $7.4M
      Ginkgo Bioworks, Pfizer Enter Multi-Target RNA Discovery Alliance
      Beauty Packaging

      Latest Breaking News From Beauty Packaging

      NYX Professional Makeup Partners with the New York Liberty
      BASF and StitchCrew Introduce Educational Bootcamp for Indigenous Beauty Brands
      Top 10 Most Popular Fashion Designer Makeup Brands—According to Landys Chemist
      Happi

      Latest Breaking News From Happi

      Micro Powders Appoints IMCD US New Regional Distributor for Personal Care Products
      American Cleaning Institute Praises Draft Proposal on Cleaning Product Ingredient Transparency
      NYX Professional Makeup Inks First Partnership with The New York Liberty
      Ink World

      Latest Breaking News From Ink World

      Micro Powders Showcases New Natural, PTFE Alternative Additives at 2023 WCS
      Roland DG Direct-To-Film Printer Ink, Powder Receive ECO PASSPORT Certification
      INX Will Show Inkjet, Sustainable Packaging Solutions at PRINTING United
      Label & Narrow Web

      Latest Breaking News From Label & Narrow Web

      INX brings inkjet and sustainable packaging to PRINTING United Expo
      Schreiner MediPharm introduces Freeze-Light-Protect syringe label
      Kodak launches PRINERGY 10.0
      Nonwovens Industry

      Latest Breaking News From Nonwovens Industry

      ExxonMobil Works with JL Goor to Help Drive Growth in Ireland and U.K. Healthcare Sector
      Lee C. Stewart Resigns from Glatfelter Board
      Ana Fraisse Joins The American Cleaning Institute
      Orthopedic Design & Technology

      Latest Breaking News From Orthopedic Design & Technology

      CTL Amedica Granted ECAT Approval from Defense Logistics Agency
      Intech Acquires Lenkbar LLC
      ONWARD Completes First-in-Human for ARC-IM to Restore Upper Extremity Function
      Printed Electronics Now

      Latest Breaking News From Printed Electronics Now

      Jabil Announces Definitive Agreement to Divest Mobility Business for $2.2B
      PPG and Flō-Optics Enter Exclusive Supplier Agreement
      SEMI North America Advisory Board Adds New Members

      Copyright © 2023 Rodman Media. All rights reserved. Use of this constitutes acceptance of our privacy policy The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Rodman Media.

      AD BLOCKER DETECTED

      Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
      Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.


      FREE SUBSCRIPTION Already a subscriber? Login