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The Nashua Corporation (NASDAQ: NSHA) is an American company headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire that makes labels, specialty papers, and imaging products and services. On September 15, 2009, it was bought by Cenveo, Inc. As of early 2010, it had four factories in several states.〔(Jan. 7, 2010 Nashua Telegraph story: Nashua Corp. closes plant )〕 == History == Nashua began as a gummed paper manufacturer in Rockport, Massachusetts. In 1898 the company folded. The owner, Charles H. Crowell, was not only an inventor, but he was also a farsighted entrepreneur. He sold his crumbling company to Carter, Rice & Company of Boston, who kept Crowell on as manager of their new division, now renamed to Winthrop Manufacturing Company. A fire destroyed the factory in February, 1904, which had in the meantime moved to south Boston. The search for a new locale led owners Carter and Rice to Nashua, New Hampshire, where they found the heavily in debt Nashua Card and Glazed Paper Company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/nashua-corporation-history/ )〕 which had been founded in 1849 as a manufacturer of cardboard and glazed paper. During the California Gold Rush Nashua made playing cards for miners〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.Nashua_Corporation.22064f132d96eb8e.html )〕 and became known as a result as the Card Shop. This name stuck with the company for almost 100 years, well into the 1950s. The owners of Nashua were happy to sell their factory to Carter and Rice for $74,000, plus mortgage. At that moment, 1904, the present day Nashua Corporation was founded. In April, 1904 the wholly owned subsidiary was incorporated. It became known as the Nashua Card, Gummed and Coated Paper Company. The new company brought together the capabilities of both companies, continuing to manufacture the products of Carter, Rice & Company, namely gummed flats, gummed paper, and sock linings, they added the products of the previous company, that is, glazed paper, cardboard, and "surface coated" paper.〔 In 1910 the company had its first telephone installed along with new office machinery and boilers. That year the company also brought on staff its first chemist, paving the way for the inclusion of research and development into the business model. In 1926 it bought the Knowles Youngblood Co., and in 2000 it merged with Rittenhouse, another printing specialty firm. Nashua Corporation sold its line of tape products to Tyco International in 1997. The tape products line was then divested as part of Covalence Specialty Materials which later merged with Berry Plastics.〔(Berry Plastics )〕 Nashua Brand Tape Products are now manufactured in Franklin, Kentucky. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nashua Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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