Fredrix 150th Anniversary Celebrated at FESPA 2018
Fredrix Canvas celebrated 150 years of manufacturing the world’s finest artist and printable canvases at the Global Print Expo 2018 in Berlin.
With both high-tech machine coating and operations and old-world hand-priming, Fredrix offers their services to both their US and International customers.
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Fredrix highlighted their 150-year anniversary at the Global Print Expo 2018 in Berlin which featured a “Fredrix FESPA factory” themed booth and experienced one of their busiest shows to date. Numerous large windows at the Fredrix booth featured images of their factories coating lines and equipment printed on their canvas and was set as ‘windows with factory views;’.
Fredrix’s Senior Vice President, Mike Ecker commented: “By displaying both our heritage and our modern facility at FESPA this year allows visitors to understand how manufacturing a fine artist canvas has enabled us to produce the ultimate printable canvas.”
Fredrix continues to celebrate their anniversary with specials, promotions and factory tours by appointment.
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