Have you ever seen fabric flags, banners, signs or umbrellas advertising a product? They just might have been made by a company in south-central PA.
Tex Visions, which is based in Carlisle, manufactures custom-printed fabric advertising for companies like Microsoft, Verizon and Harley-Davidson. Many of their flags, banners and other products are made for trade-show and outdoor advertising. The company started out in 2004 with two employees and now has about 60 workers.
CEO Marcel Ruhland explains that displays printed on fabric have grown in popularity over the past several years because it's more eco-friendly than the vinyl advertisements that were more common before. For one thing, fabric is more easily recycled. And Tex Visions uses inks that are water-based rather than chemical-based.
Ruhland says starting the business in Carlisle made sense because of its central location near major highways. It also found an attractive, newly renovated facility in the Murata Business Center.
Tex Visions is in the process of graduating from the Carlisle incubator and is constructing a new facility nearby. The 60,000-square foot building will allow the company to continue to grow while keeping all of its employees under one roof. It will also have modernized equipment that will enable more production to be automated. A $100,000 tax credit from the Keystone Innovation Zone program will help offset the cost of Tex Visions' new building.
Source: Marcel Ruhland, Tex Visions
Writer: Rebecca VanderMeulen
