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Nazdar: Toasting 100 Years of Success!

Company has grown from an idea in a bar to one of the world’s leading screen, digital and flexo ink manufacturers.

Ideas born over a cold one aren’t to be taken seriously are they? Well, they are when you’re talking about John Pottage Sr. and Ed Owens. On a blustery Chicago night in 1922, the pair sat together enjoying a beer at their favorite Bohemian bar, ruminating about their futures. When the conversation turned to a unique and obscure decorative process known as screen printing, they hit upon an idea: starting a company to provide screen printing ink. Immediately, Pottage committed $1000 to the vent...

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