Dave Savastano, Editor05.13.16
There are very few father-son combinations who have both been honored with NAPIM’s Printing Ink Pioneer Award. Larry Yoder received the 1999 Pioneer Award after a distinguished career at Flint Ink, and Greg Yoder has definitely maintained the family tradition, receiving the 2016 Pioneer Award for his years of dedicated service to the industry.
Greg naturally learned much about the industry from his father.
“My earliest exposure to the printing ink industry came before I was a teenager in the mid-1970s, visiting my father’s office at Bowers Printing Ink on Irving Park Road in Chicago,” Greg recalled. “The exposure was greatly increased when I was 16 and my father, Larry, and his three partners opened the North American Printing Ink Company (NAPIC) in 1978. They let me help clean up the building they had leased before installing the mixers and mills.
Greg naturally learned much about the industry from his father.
“My earliest exposure to the printing ink industry came before I was a teenager in the mid-1970s, visiting my father’s office at Bowers Printing Ink on Irving Park Road in Chicago,” Greg recalled. “The exposure was greatly increased when I was 16 and my father, Larry, and his three partners opened the North American Printing Ink Company (NAPIC) in 1978. They let me help clean up the building they had leased before installing the mixers and mills.
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