Color Craft Graphic Arts will double its’ plant size by this summer in the Manitowoc I-Tech (eye’-tek) Industrial Park. Steve Mirecki (mer-eck’-ee)…President of the company at 5631 West Drive..says the new addition of 40-thousand square feet is being handled by Hamann Construction. Mirecki tells Seehafer News that the project is a partnership involving Jeff Deprez (doo-pray’) of Great Lakes Training & Development Corporation and First Capital Partners.
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Deprez (doo-pray’) agrees…the partnership is a ‘win-win.’
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Steve Heinen (high’-nen) of first capital partners..which works with clients in ‘big ten country’..said they ‘identified an opportunity for them to make an investment in the (Color Craft) company.’
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Mirecki…..says they currently employ around 65-fulltime & 15 ‘temporary’ employees…“but, if ten qualified people walked in today..he would hire them.”
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The expansion will bring the company on West Drive to about 85-thousand square feet when it’s completed sometime in June. Steve Mirecki bought the business from Tom Foster in 2011..and since that time & thru 2016…they’ve just about doubled in business volume in private packaging label folding cartons for clients like Mr. Coffee & Hawaiian Punch…among others.
