Transcontinental Litho Acme Celebrates its 45th Anniversary

This past March 11, some 160 customers and employees celebrated Transcontinental Litho Acme’s 45th anniversary at a special event under the theme “A taste for innovation is a taste for chocolate.” In the past year, our Montreal plant has invested more than four million dollars upgrading its facility and buying new equipment. All the more reason then to invite its customers to mark its anniversary in the company of employees and senior management.

Transcontinental Litho Acme wanted to make this very special anniversary a memorable one and emphasize its leading position in the marketplace by offering guests and employees a highly diverting and enjoyable event. The evening was organized as a tour of the plant, with six information stops along the way, including one at the new Heidelberg sheetfed press, the Speedmaster XL105, which is very fast and prints highly accurate colours, one in the prepress area to see its new equipment and one … to taste chocolate in a blue Lounge atmosphere – complete with blue martinis. Lastly, there was a demonstration of printing on chocolate, which the crowd was very curious about.

Master chocolate maker Paquette demonstrates the process for printing the Transcontinental logo on chocolate. It’s a very special technique that employs edible ink; and everything is done at minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Some of the customers who attended the event, with Luc Gibeault representing Transcontinental Litho Acme (2nd on the far right).

Christian Labonté and Johanne Larose found that guests were extremely interested in the new prepress tools. Once again, innovation was front and centre at this memorable event!

Two Customer Service staff: Sophie Sarrazin and Sylvain Galllina.

Seeing the dynamic energy of the guides leading the tour of Transcontinental Litho Acme, mainly sales staff from the Customer Service department, it’s easy to understand why the evening was such a success.

In the photo, from left to right: Éric Bouchard, production supervisor at Transcontinental Litho Acme; Rémi Marcoux, executive chairman of the Board and founder of Transcontinental; Alain Doutre, general manager of Transcontinental Litho Acme; Jean Denault, Transcontinental’s vice president, procurement and technology; and Martin Archambault, prepress supervisor at Transcontinental Litho Acme.

Alain Doutre, general manager of Transcontinental Litho Acme, thanked the employees for their dedication and professionalism, two key elements in the company’s success. He also talked about innovation, the theme of the evening, as well as the strength of the sales staff.

The new Heidelberg XL105 press, like all of the equipment at Transcontinental Litho Acme, is state-of-the-art technology. It is still true, however, as was noted by Patrice Lacoste, vice president, short-run commercial printing for Quebec in the Commercial Products Group, that “what differentiates us the most from our competitors is the skills and knowledge of the people who run the equipment. Transcontinental Litho Acme produces high quality products and services because it has a highly skilled workforce.”

Here we can see, at the fifth station, part of the new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL105 sheetfed press, selected for its speed and ability to print accurate colour.