About Weber Marking Systems

Weber Marking Systems, Inc., is an experienced innovator in the design, manufacture, and supply of high-performance labels and labeling products. We provide the latest in systems, software, and media and back them with a nationwide network of direct sales, service, and technical support.

Since our founding in 1932, Weber Marking Systems has grown into an international labeling leader. From our world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and other plants worldwide, we provide products and solutions for over 50,000 companies. Weber systems are found in every industry, from small manufacturers to Fortune 500 operations.

For seventy-five years, our sole focus has been the development and improvement of labeling solutions. It has enabled us to thoroughly understand the needs of our customers.

Manufacturing

Weber manufactures a broad line of high-quality labels and tags at our 320,000-square-foot world headquarters in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

The label manufacturing process begins in our graphics department, where skilled technical artists use the latest computer-aided systems to design labels that match the exact specifications of our customers.

Weber utilizes only the finest raw materials and the most advanced manufacturing techniques. We coat our own mill rolls with pressure-sensitive adhesives, slit them to customer specifications, and print all orders on the latest flexographic or digital label presses.

These high-speed presses produce labels in up to ten colors, including spectacular four-color process. With over one hundred different combinations of paper and film facestocks coupled with numerous adhesives, we can create a label that is perfect for its intended application.

In addition, we manufacture a complete offering of RFID smart labels using an innovative method of inserting RFID inlays during the flexographic conversion process. Every Weber RFID smart label is certified and verified to be the highest quality.

Weber also designs, engineers, and fabricates a line of automatic label printer-applicators. These units feature high-speed, precise label placement along with unsurpassed print quality. To better meet the individual needs of our customers, each model is made to customer specifications, with a choice of printheads and application methods. RFID models also are available.

We are proud of our manufacturing capabilities and processes. Site tours can be arranged by contacting your Weber account representative.

History

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.