Billco Manufacturing, 100 Halstead Blvd, Zelienople, PA 16063, US

In the early 1950s Carl Strutz Sr., a German immigrant and his two sons, Frank and Carl Jr., began operation of a small machine shop near Pittsburgh, Penn. The group provided customers with job shop machining and custom assembly services. The company incorporated in 1953 as Strutz Fabricators. Strutz Fabricators developed the CS100, one of the first Strutz automatic glass decorators. It operated with other machines in a glass factory using a system of interconnected conveyors. Glass bottles were loaded onto the automatic decorating machine from a conveyor, screen decorated in multiple colors, and then unloaded onto another conveyor. Speeds exceeding 100 bottles per minute were achieved using this process. Strutz has grown since its incorporation and glass decorators can operate at speeds exceeding 200 bottles per minute and can decorate bottles in four colors with excellent color-to-color registration. The level of performance and quality found in the company s decorators are not available on any other glass decorator product in the world.