Visstun is pleased to announce a programming change to their box labels. Each box label now includes the Distributor’s Name, Company Name, Phone Number, and Email Address as the reorder contact.
There have been some interesting discussions recently on blog sites about the merits of including distributor contact information on shipping boxes. We thought it was a good idea, so we reprogrammed our label printing software to pull the contact data from our order system. By using this contact data, we were able to implement the change quickly; but, it limits the information available for the label to Contact Name, Company Name, Phone number, and Email address. Other information automatically included in the new label format is your PO number, our work order number, job name, product description, box weight, pieces per box, box count, Made in the USA logo, and “Thank you for your order!”
We feel this is a positive step to help distributors capture repeat orders and we will be interested to hear how this impacts business.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (January 22, 2010) – DIGISPEC and Visstun, two of the four divisions in the Time’s Up family of companies, have combined their respective sales forces into one.
“We found that many of our customers purchased from both brands and we wanted to make our sales and customer service process as easy as possible,” said Ed Hamilton, president of DIGISPEC and Visstun. “Combining the sales forces so each customer has one dedicated sales counselor was the most effective way of making this happen.”
About Digispec & Visstun:
DIGISPEC®, the first business in the Time’s Up family of companies founded by Ed Hamilton in 1983, is a manufacturer of custom corporate mouse pads using state-of-the-art equipment and quality American-made materials. When the company purchased Minneapolis-based XJD Corp in 2002 and acquired Linden, Utah-based DataPad 2003, it became the largest mouse pad manufacturer in the promotional products industry. To date, it has produced more than 250 million mouse pads.
Time’s Up created Visstun® in 2006, launching the world’s first high-definition convolute cup. This unique, state-of-the-art technology eclipses traditional cup imprinting methods by first printing high-quality corporate images on flat polypropylene sheets and then forming them into cups on custom engineered machinery.
Both divisions have received numerous accolades. Since 2000, DIGISPEC has been honored more than 50 times by industry associations, publications and distributor companies, including receiving a Counselor Distributor Choice Award for nine consecutive years and being named by Counselor as a Best Places To Work in 2008. The line has received 11 PPAI Supplier Achievement Awards, most recently in the Offset Process category, as well as four PPAI Supplier Star Awards of Merit.
Since it’s inception, Visstun has been honored 10 times, including the 2009 Counselor Product Design Award for Drinkware, the 2009 Silver PPAI Supplier Achievement Award in the Supplier Self Promotion category and the 2010 PPAI Supplier Achievement Nominee Award in the Catalog (S1-S5) category.
DIGISPEC and Visstun, along with their sister companies CounterPoint® and AwesomeEye®, are headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For more information on DIGISPEC mouse pads, visit www.digispec.com. For Visstun custom cups, visit www.visstun.com.
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Visstun has expanded its plastic and paper cup offerings and increased its production capacity with the addition of a fourth Paper Machinery Corp. (PMC) 1250P cup forming machine. In addition to producing the 12-, 17-, 22- and 32-ounce cup sizes, the new machine also fabricates a 16-ounce container size and 44-ounce cup size—all at a speed of 165 cups per minute.
The installation of the new machine also improves scheduling flexibility, as all cup sizes can be run on any of the four machines. Additionally, the four machines are synchronized for the same quality production so the same cup can be made on all machines. This allows us to handle large, and small, orders efficiently and in a timely manner.
"When we launched Visstun in 2007, we began with two PMC 1250P machines," said Ed Hamilton, Visstun president. "To double our capacity in two years to more than 130 millions cups annually exceeds expectations and confirms our belief in the demand for truly unique, four color cups."
"Visstun collaborated with PMC to pioneer the development of preprinting convolute forming of plastic cups," said Jerry Meier, Vice President, Packaging of Paper Machinery Corp. "This resulted in Visstun being the very first company in the world to commercialize this special technology for the drink cup market. This was a unique blend of technology changes in printing, forming, and creation of the plastic sheet that has resulted in truly innovative products for the promotional products industry and for the cup and container industries as well."
from the Packaging Europe website
Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. has ensured Visstun products conform to applicable Prop 65 and CPSIA safety standards.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (August 28, 2009) – In the ever-changing regulatory environment in which business is done, product safety is top-of-mind in the promotional products industry. Visstun® have successfully completed third-party audits of their products and practices, which conform to applicable Prop 65 and CPSIA safety standards.
The tests were conducted by Enfield, Connecticut-based Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STR), a leading, independent testing and accreditation agency that provides audit services to 140 countries around the world.
All Visstun products—including plastic and paper cups as well as color changing ink and glow ink—were also found to be compliant. The line was tested for aesthetics, leakage and contamination, capacity, ink/coating adhesion, heavy metal content, FDA extraction, phthalates and microbiological contamination.
Certificates of Conformity may be viewed at www.visstun.com/safety.
“With all the recent concerns over product safety, especially for children, we have been proactive and are taking all precautions to meet Prop 65 and CPSIA guidelines,” said Ed Hamilton, DIGISPEC president. “We want to make sure we provide all necessary information to distributors so they are confident that the products they purchase from us are safe and compliant.”
