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T-51 Townsend color heads
Friday, May 21, 2010 For Immediate Release

Townsend Industries, Inc. 6650 Northeast 41st Avenue Altoona, IA

TOWNSEND INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCES COMPANY CLOSING

Townsend Industries of Altoona, Iowa will be ending operations on Thursday, June 17, 2010 after over fifty years in business. Employees were notified of the closing in a company meeting on Thursday. The company was started in 1957 by Bob Townsend, who invented and manufactured the T-51 or "T-Head" to allow two-pass, two-color printing on small format offset presses. The product was recognized by nearly every major offset duplicator as a vital option to their presses and was sold worldwide. Townsend passed away on February 22, 2010, leaving a legacy of compassion for his employees and patronage in the city of Altoona, Iowa. He was instrumental in dozens of causes and charitable organizations, the development of the Altoona Campus gym and exercise center, Southeast Polk Dollars for Scholars, Altoona Food Bank and the Altoona Public Library among others.

When Bob Townsend sat down at the desk in his small print shop in the mid-1950s to sketch out the plans for the first T-51, he had one goal in mind: To solve the typical problems of two-pass, two-color printing on a small format offset press.

His solution: A totally independent, self-contained printing unit that easily attaches to almost any offset press.

A unit that has its own plate cylinder and its own ink and dampening system. A unit that transfers the image from its plate onto the blanket in close register with the image from the offset's plate. Simultaneously, both images are then transferred onto the paper. Two-color printing in just one pass. Two-color work in half the time!

The T-51, or "T-Head", was quickly recognized by nearly every major offset duplicator manufacturer as a vital option to their presses. T-51s are marketed all around the globe through a network of original equipment manufacturers, distributors and dealers.
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