Quad Graphics Facility

Some may consider it unique, the 25-year “partnership” between Quad Graphics, the world’s largest privately held printer of magazines, catalogs, books and other printed products (including ASCENT, the magazine you are now reading) and the precaster they have used on most of the growing number of projects. But for the two companies, it has become routine. And during that time, Quad Graphics has used more than 1 million square feet of extruded, insulated wall panels to create capacity of nearly 9 million square feet in Wisconsin. And the printer continues to use more, due to plans to add another million square feet in the near future.

The reasons for the long-standing relationship between the printer and Spancrete Industries Inc. in Waukesha, Wis., can be summed up in just a few words, according to Joseph Muehlbach, Quad’s corporate manager for facilities. “The Spancrete hollowcore system provides us with the shortest avenue to meeting our continuing expansion needs. Using these panels dramatically shortens our construction window.”

The extruded-panel system used by the precaster works well for Quad’s inhouse general contracting arm, which directs all of the printer’s construction, says Muehlbach, “We can do all of our foundation and flatwork while Spancrete produces the wall panels. When we are ready to erect them, all we need to do is direct them to ship the finished product. We can put them up in a hurry, in a week or two, rather than over several weeks or even months.” The two companies have worked on projects for the printer in such Wisconsin cities as Hartford, Lomira, Milwaukee, Pewaukee, Sussex and West Allis.

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