Zenger Group Cuts Ribbon on New Tonawanda, NY, Plant

TONAWANDA, NY—September 27, 2013—The Zenger Group held an official ribbon cutting to open its new plant and headquarters at 777 East Park Drive, here yesterday.

The 127,000-square-foot facility was acquired by Zenger Development (the real estate arm of Zenger Group) from VWR Education in September 2012.

The facility was upgraded with new power service, a complete new production space build-out including new HVAC and environmental systems, and additional office and conference spaces. The project also included the purchase and installation of a new eight-color, 41” Heidelberg XL106 printing press.

Upon completion of the facility upgrade, Zenger Group consolidated three of its Buffalo, NY, plants into the new space. Zenger Group relocated from a 32,000-square-foot plant and headquarters on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo to the East Park facility in March 2013. The 23,000-square-foot Zenger Boncraft plant in Orchard Park, and the 15,000-square-foot Zenger Boncraft plant in Hamburg, NY, completed their relocations in May 2013.

The ribbon cutting was officiated by Peter Rivera, New York State Commissioner of Labor representing Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Additional speakers included Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Joseph Emminger, Tonawanda deputy supervisor and Dottie Gallagher-Cohen, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. The ribbon cutting was followed by a reception and plant tour.

The building, upgrades and press purchase represent a $7.2 mm investment by Zenger Group and helps retain 110 existing jobs with Zenger and 52 existing jobs with building tenants. Zenger Group also plans to add 25 new jobs over the next five years. The project was supported by Empire State Development, Erie County Industrial Development Agency, Town of Tonawanda, National Grid and the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. M&T Bank financed the building and press acquisition.

Zenger Group also operates two additional printing facilities in the Buffalo, NY, area. Zenger Partners is a full service 40˝ press union printing operation in Kenmore, NY, and Downtown Graphics provides retail print and copy services in the Larkin Building near downtown Buffalo.

About Zenger Group
Buffalo, NY-based Zenger Group provides timely and smart managed solutions for graphic and marketing communications. The company has 110 employees in three division facilities. Its portfolio of services include: photography; creative design; electronic prepress; small-, medium- and large-format offset printing; variable-data and on-demand digital printing; and direct mail processing.

Source: Zenger Group.