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NAZDAR INK TECHNOLOGIES

An Ink That's Right for Every Job

 

Since 1922, Nazdar has been serving printers like you by providing top-quality products, expert technical knowledge, and unparalleled customer service. Our commitment to continual innovation and client satisfaction ensures that our customers receive inks with excellent performance at a competitive price, backed by the best service in the industry.

Nazdar manufactures the most comprehensive selection of UV, UV-LED, water-base and solvent-based digital inkjet, screen printing, and narrow web inks and coatings obtainable from a single source. Whether printing indoor or outdoor applications on paper, plastics, textiles, metal, glass, or containers and packaging, there's a Nazdar ink that's right for every job.

Company History

Nazdar was founded in 1922 in the back of a small store in Chicago. Nazdar's transformation from these humble beginnings to one of the world's leading manufacturers of screen printing, flexo and digital inks is the story of the emergence of the screen printing industry itself.

Throughout the 1930s to the 1950s, what was then Naz-Dar focused on developing new inks to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of screen printers. The growth of the plastics industry was a major factor in the expanded use of screen printing in the 50s and 60s. During this period the Company's first extensive R&D programs were established to keep pace with the rapidly increasing demand for higher performance screen printing products.

In the 1960s and 70s, relationships were established with the core of Nazdar's distribution network. Through this network Nazdar now serves the U.S. and international markets with distribution that brings Nazdar's family of imaging products to Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.

Nazdar Company was purchased by Thrall Enterprises, Inc. in 1977 and its headquarters moved to Shawnee, KS.

In 1982, Naz-Dar acquired KC Coatings. By combining the industry's most popular ink lines, most extensive distribution, and most advanced R&D capabilities under one name, the acquisition ensured that the new Naz-Dar/KC would always be at the forefront of innovative research and product development.

Anticipating the acceptance of digital technology in the screen printing market, in 1995, Nazdar established initiatives dedicated to serve the needs of the large format digital printing industry.

In 1997, Nazdar acquired the Canadian company, Ink Dezyne, and expanded the already successful development of digital inks

In 2005, Nazdar created two main operating divisions – Nazdar Ink Technologies and Nazdar SourceOne.

In 2006, Thrall Enterprises, Inc. acquired Lyson Ltd. in the United Kingdom and made this Digital Ink Manufacturer a part of Nazdar Ink Technologies under the name Nazdar Ltd. This acquisition provided a two-fold benefit by expanding the Company’s digital ink products as well as establishing a stronger distribution presence in the European markets.

 

Nazdar Culture

Nazdar is a privately-owned company and we have a collaborative environment where employees are encouraged to share their ideas and perspectives. This culture helps to ensure that:

Our environment is one of the best in the industry.

  • Our products are of highest quality.
  • Our employees have a passion for our industry and our customers.
  • We operate with a high level of integrity and do what’s right.

Nazdar Operating Principles:
1. We are dedicated to meeting customer requirements.
Our success depends totally on our ability to satisfy our customers. Customers judge our products and services on the basis of their own needs and service requirements. Their assessments — not ours — are the only measure of our success.

2. We will pursue quality in all that we do.
Nazdar has built its reputation on quality and we will continue to meet and improve on the standards we have set. We will ensure that all employees have the opportunity to use the concepts, tools and methods of continuous improvement.

3. We respect and value all employee, supplier and business partner relationships.
We will invest in the development and education of our employees, who will share in the success of our business.

4. We accept responsibility as a corporate citizen.
We acknowledge our obligation as a business institution to help improve the quality of the society and community of which we are a part. In the conduct of all our business activities, we take positive actions to ensure equal opportunity to all.
Our goal is to stand in the forefront of companies working to make our world a better place.

5. We will conduct all business affairs ethically, with integrity, and in support of our mission and operating principles, and with free market values.
For nearly 100 years, Nazdar has been guided by these principles, which have made us the leading company in the screen printing industry.

Distribution and Support

Where to Buy: Nazdar inks are distributed worldwide by an extensive network of industry suppliers. Find a Nazdar distributor near you on our Where to Buy page.

InkAnswers Technical Team:The next time you're pondering a perplexing printing problem, consult Nazdar's award-winning technical service team, InkAnswers.

Quality

Since 2000, Nazdar's Quality Management System had been independently certified and registered as meeting the requirements of the International Quality Standard, ISO 9001. This was, and is, an unmistakable signal to our customers that Nazdar has achieved a standard of quality recognized and respected throughout the world.

The ISO 9001 Standard covers every aspect of our business, from the way we operate and manufacture to customer service standards and product delivery. View Nazdar's current ISO Certificate here.