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In 1949 Mr. Giorgio Bisutti, having worked for 20 years as Director of the Research Laboratory at the glass factory Cristallerie di Murano, in Venice, founded his own Company: Policrom Screens. His in–depth knowledge of all the technologies related to glass set the basis to start the manufacturing of glass screens for halftone reproductions. During the following three decades, Policrom Screens became the worldwide leader of this market: while the product technology was innovating from the earlier glass to contact film screens, Policrom Screens evolved its know–how, acquired its European and US competitors, from Retini Italia and Swisscreen to Max Levy and F.E Brown, and took over the production of the Japanese Dai Nippon Screens. When the electronic technology replaced halftone screens, the Company had leveraged its international structure to market other products for the Graphic Industry in the whole world.
In the early Eighties the Company specialized in converting films for the graphic industry, from masking film to montage foil; and by the end of the millennium Policrom Screens had established as the European market leader of montage film.
Meanwhile, thanks to partnerships with the most important world manufacturers of polyester and coating industries, Policrom has consolidateda specific, unique expertise in all films and media for the graphic industry, developing a full range of films for the offset and silk–screen printing press (duct foils, underpacking foils, printable media) as well as for the digital printing industry (films and papers for ink–jet, laser printers and for copy machines, as well as media for Indigo and Xeicon digital presses).
For over 50 years Policrom Screens has been leveraging its deep knowledge of the graphic industry and its long standing habit of high quality and product excellence to develop and market consumable products, initially for prepress (montage foils, laser film) and subsequently for the printing house (ink–duct foils, underpacking polyesters).
Since 2002 the Company has been marketing a new range of nonwovens for the automatic and manual cleaning of the printing press, that has been developed for the specific needs of the graphic industry; Policrom Screens has filed unique patents for an innovative self–impregnating roll (for use in automatic cleaning systems that require the use of ready–moistened cloth); and the projects for further development in the area of cleaning include high–performance nonwovens and low environmental impact chemicals.
In 2004 the Company further invested in the development of polyester and polymer–based products through a capital investment in Normandy Coating, a facility recently established in northern France and specialized in the surface treatment of plastic films.
The range of products has been developed to include a full assortment of versatile, high performance plates for spot varnishing, as well as calibrated underpacking polyester, manufactured even in very large formats (1,65 mt); and unique printable media for both offset and digital presses, developed through strategic alliances with International Companies specifically focussed on research on plastic film applications.
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