Weber Milestones







• 1932 – Weber Addressing Machine Co. founded in Chicago by Joseph Weber, Sr.











• 1938 – First handprinter – the Tag-O-Graph Jr. – for directly marking containers is introduced.





• 1947 – Weber’s Address Machine enables direct, mechanical printing on envelopes; also moved from Chicago to suburban Mt. Prospect and the company changed its name to Weber Marking Systems.




• 1952 – First electro-mechanical in-plant label printing machine is introduced to enable companies to print their own product identification and address labels.







• 1955 – Introduction of the Tab-On concept, a stencil affixed to a shipping form enabling a label to be prepared as a by-product of the form; also moved to a larger facility in Mt. Prospect. 

• 1962 – Joseph Weber, Jr. joins company on a full-time basis after practicing law as an assistant State's Attorney and serving as Weber's Corporate Secretary and legal counsel.



• 1964 - Stenmark® stencil system makes it possible to print more legible information directly onto shipping containers.







• 1967 – Moved from Mt. Prospect to a brand new facility in nearby Arlington Heights.





• 1968 – New Weber plant is named one of the top ten in the U.S. by Factory magazine.

• 1969 – First thermal printing system for reproducing text and graphics from a stencil is introduced.

• 1973 – Weber opens a 45,000-square-foot facility in the United Kingdom.

• 1974 – Weber installs its first rotary flexographic label printing press.





• 1975 – Introduction of labels pre-printed with company logos and graphics; variable data could then be added with a Weber electro-mechanical printer.










• 1978 – Weber’s Legitronic® labeling system is introduced, marking the first time computer technology was applied to on-site label printing.





• 1979 – Weber acquistion of Tape & Label Engineering in Florida provides full-color, prime label printing capabilities for the decorating of consumer products.






• 1984 - Legitronic® system is enhanced to include PC-based memory and software innovations that allowed bar code formats and advanced graphics.





• 1987 – Introduction of the first thermal-transfer label printer, which provided higher-quality bar codes, text and graphic images to be printed on a wide range of label stocks.



• 1988 – Weber opens a 22,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Ontario, Canada.




• 1990 – Became the largest distributor of Label-Aire® label printing and application equipment.






• 1992 – Joseph Weber, Jr. is appointed Chairman & CEO.








• 1997 – Added improved label press capabilities in the forms of UV flexo and UV screen functions; opened manufacturing facility in Bangkok, Thailand.





• 1998 – Debut of the first Weber-manufactured label printer-applicator.






• 1999 – Ink jet and direct thermal-transfer package printing is added to Weber’s offering of product identification solutions.

• 2000 – Weber installs Oracle Business Systems software.

• 2002 – Weber unveils second generation of label printer-applicators with the introduction of the Model 5200 Series.






• 2004 – Weber introduces RFID printer-encoders and applicators.







• 2005 – Debut of Weber’s own RFID smart label manufacturing capabilities.






• 2007 – Weber adds seven additional flexographic label presses to the Arlington Heights facility.









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