Pitman Company named national distributor for Rad-Cure

Pitman Company, the independent North American graphic arts supplier, has been named national distributor for Rad-Cure Corporation, a manufacturer of ultra-violet curable coatings and adhesives, as well as specialty aqueous products for the narrow web, tag and label marketplace.

The new partnership with Rad-Cure adds hundreds of different types of advanced coatings and adhesives to the product portfolio that Pitman’s packaging division now brings to its customers across the nation. In addition to core coating products such as matte, in-mold low-shrink type coating, semi-matte coating or laminating adhesives, Pitman also offers its customers access to Rad-Cure’s full spectrum of innovative specialty products such as thermochromatic and glow-in-the-dark coatings.

Stan White, director of sales and marketing for Rad-Cure, stated: ‘The appointment of Pitman as our first national distributor is a key component of our strategy to expand our penetration of the marketplace for our products. Pitman provides us with an immediate link to the strong customer base that their Packaging Division’s knowledgeable sales and support team serves in the narrow web, tag and label market. We’re looking forward to working with Pitman to help their customers match our coating products with their requirements and to explore opportunities to develop new, innovative custom coating solutions for customers with unique production needs.’

Tom Alba, vice president of Pitman’s packaging division, noted, ‘Our customers look for a single source where they can purchase virtually all of the products they need for the printing process. The introduction of Rad-Cure’s products to our portfolio expands Pitman’s strong presence in the pressrooms of our customers, and gives them access to one source for the full spectrum of the industry’s best-in-class UV curable coating products. Our partnership with Rad-Cure represents the creation of an important new resource to meet the increasingly sophisticated coating requirements of the fast-changing narrow web and label industry.’