Rose City

PORTLAND, Ore.—Rose City Printing & Packaging, a manufacturer of printed folding carton packaging based in Portland, Ore., has recently opened a second manufacturing facility in Vancouver, Wash. The new 80,000-square-foot facility is needed to handle business growth that has doubled in the past three years. The Vancouver facility is expected to hire between 25 and 40 employees in the next few months. Rose City’s Portland facility, which was started in 1945, is a 107,000-square-foot facility that employs more 125 people. Rose City Printing & Packaging is owned by Rick Safranski and Steve Lobis. They are anticipating sales to increase to $60 million over the

The package-printing industry is unique in many ways. It’s a well-established industry that has a little bit of everything, and too much of some things (like competition if you’re in certain segments of the market). It has its fair share of growth segments and some that are in decline. It has some huge areas, such as pressure-senstive labeling, that are holding their own and even growing at tolerable rates, while other large segments, such as cut-and-stack paper labels, are in a slow decline. It also uses dynamic new techniques, such as shrink labels, that incorporate state-of-the-art technology to provide state-of-the-art consumer appeal. Within package printing,