COURTESY / WALCH EDUCATION
Kristi Reed-Lopatosky, director of operations, Walch Printing Plus.
July 2, 2021
A commercial printer and an envelope company join forces in Portland
Portland-based Walch Printing announced a deal Friday to buy Envelopes Plus, Maine’s largest commercial printer of envelopes.
Walch, a commercial printer and a subsidiary of Walch Education, said the combined operation has been renamed Walch Printing Plus. It now has a total of 20 employees and is based at the Walch site at 40 Walch Drive, off of Riverside Street in Portland.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Walch Printing and Envelopes Plus have a number of customers in common and share a very service-oriented vision" said Kristi Reed-Lopatosky, the combined company’s director of operations. "By combining our two companies we will be able to realize significant
efficiencies and, more importantly, be positioned to offer our existing clients and new customers an expanded range of products with the same high quality, reliable service they have come to depend upon.”
Sam Sivolvos, Envelopes Plus’ founder and former owner, said, “I have admired Walch Printing’s client-oriented, responsive approach for a number of years and it is clear that our businesses are highly complementary. I am confident Envelopes Plus’ clients and employees are in good hands."
Walch Printing Plus is a commercial printer servicing distributors and end customers throughout New England and the United States. Its work includes books, pamphlets, and envelopes to brochures, manuals and posters. According to its website, customers include print brokers, university presses and individuals looking to self-publish. It also handles print-on-demand orders.
Walch Education was founded in 1927 by a Portland debate teacher, J. Weston Walch, who supplemented his teaching salary by publishing pamphlets of his notes from debate prep, according to a Mainebiz story from 2008.
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