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Alpha Packaging announced that it acquired Technigraph for an undisclosed sum.
Alpha CEO Dave Spence called it “a match made in heaven” for two companies that have worked together for years and share many customers.
Technigraph designs and screen-prints jars, closures, tubes and bottles. Alpha manufactures plastic bottles and jars. A press release said the move will enable the two companies to offer combined, one-stop service to their customers.
“The advantages are obvious,” said Technigraph co-owner John Eddy. “The two companies are very complementary.”
Eddy emphasized that Technigraph — headquartered at 850 West Third St. — will retain all of its employees, its management staff, its customers and its name.
“The company remains committed to Winona,” he said.
Eddy said Technigraph employees were told of the acquisition late Wednesday.
Alpha is a privately held company with roughly 400 employees, according to its marketing director, Marny Bielefeldt. It has manufacturing facilities in St. Louis; Salt Lake City; Bethlehem, Pa., Jacksonville, Fla. and Ypsilanti, Mich.
Bielefeldt said Alpha has acquired other bottle-manufacturing companies in recent years. But she said Technigraph is Alpha’s first foray into the screen-printing side of the industry.
“We’re really starting to expand the scope of services we provide,” Bielefeldt said.
