AMPCO GRAPHICS' HISTORY

Ad-Print opens its doors providing Screen Printed products.

Sometime around 1970 we win a contract to supply BC Telephone with all of their fleet graphics and start a supply agreement with Mohawk Oil for service station graphics that lasts until Husky buys them out in 2008.

At our 13,000 square foot facility on Stainsbury Ave. in the Trout Lake area of East Vancouver, we start producing woodgrain and striping kits for the Japanese import car markets for Subaru and Nissan.

We win the contract to supply reflective graphics to the new Light Rail Transit system being built in Calgary AB.

We expand into motor home graphics and purchase the largest thermal die cutter ever sold in Canada at 36″ by 108″ for producing these graphic kits.

Ad-Print expands into vinyl graphics and opens the Duratext Department.

We get the contract to supply graphics to the Dairyland fleet. 1987 we rebrand the BC Hydro fleet and the BC Gas vehicles.

We move our operations to Coqutilam — this is quite a jump in our manufacturing space as the Fawcett Road plant is 37,000 square feet with a large bay for installing decals of tractor trailers.

We purchase the first wide format Scotchprint 2000 digital press sold in Canada.

We fully wrap two BC Transit trolly buses advertising BC Tel pagers. The trolly buses had to be towed to our Coquitlam plant for the decals to be installed.

The first large format graphic in Canada for a commercial airliner is produced and applied to an Air Canada DC-9 for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Four cars on the Skytrain system are wrapped with advertising for the MetroTown mall. This is the first outside advertising on any SkyTrain units.

We get serious about wide-format digital printing and purchase a 1.5m wide solvent inkjet Vutek printer and a 2m wide flatbed Vutek UV inkjet printer.

The AMPCO Graphics brand was introduced to help create more brand awareness and focus on our Digital Capabilities

AMPCO Graphics becomes official sponsor to the World Junior Hockey Championship.

We expand our digital capacity with the purchase of a 3M wide Vutek solvent inkjet printer.

AMPCO Graphics become official sponsor to the World Police and Fire Games.

AMPCO Graphics is awarded Lead Print Partner Status with VANOC 2010 Winter Olympics.

We supply and install graphics on 5400 cars, 500 buses and several buildings including the Richmond Speed Skating Oval for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

AMPCO becomes an Official Environmental Graphic Supplier to BC Children’s Hospital.

AMPCO receives G7 Color Certification.

Arizona Flatbed Printer launched in Digital Printing.

We win a contract to rebrand the Kaltire Fleet at 250 branches in Western Canada.

We are selected to do the rebranding of the Telus Fleet across Canada.

AMPCO Graphics installs new banner design & graphics at the Centre of Digital Media

AMPCO Graphics executes building wraps & graphics for Vancouver Art Gallery

AMPCO Graphics is awarded the contract to print HSBC Airport Graphics for all of North America.