QCM Inks Information

When the QCM Company (which stands for Quality Controlled Manufacturing) was founded in the Seattle area in 1972, its main focus was the compression molding resins for the snowboard and ski industries of the Pacific Northwest. As that business began to succeed, QCM started manufacturing proprietary plastisol solutions to serve the airplane and shipbuilding industries that, at that time, made up a large part of the manufacturing base in the local area. As some of these industries began to move offshore, QCM took its knowledge of plastisols in a different direction and began manufacturing plastisol inks to support one of the most recognizable products in the entire world - the screen-printed T-Shirt. These ink products were soon to become the main focus and for the past 37 years. QCM has worked on developing the most user friendly, environmentally conscious, top quality products available anywhere. Roy Wheeldon, QCM's chief chemist and later, President, led the technical direction of the company. Roy was an ardent environmentalist long before it became fashionable, and strongly believed in corporate and individual responsibility. Roy's mission was not just to make the world's best screen printing ink, but to make the world's most environmentally friendly ink. Under his technical leadership, QCM quickly eliminated heavy metals, chlorinated organic solvents and other nasty chemicals from its chemistry. Becoming aware of the "gender bending" dangers of Ortho-Phthalate plasticisers, Roy made it QCM's mission to also eliminate these in all QCM Plastisol formulations.