|
|
|
Our Facility
Late for the Sky Production Company, Inc., located in Cincinnati, Ohio, was founded in 1984. Its 50 employees create and produce the Company’s broad range of specialty board games from a 60,000 square foot, company-owned building. 55,000 square feet of that is utilized for manufacturing and storage. All design, print manufacturing, bindery, box manufacturing, game board manufacturing, final assembly, and fulfillment are completed in this location.
The following is a current list of the Company’s tools and equipment, utilized in the design and manufacturing of Late for the Sky board games.
Pre Press and Workflow
- 2 Mac Pro workstations
- 2 G5 workstations
- 2 24" Epson 7800 printers with K5 Archival inks
- 1 EFI Color proof XF 3.1 proofing system
- Adobe Creative Suite 3
- Preps 5.15
- Pitstop 7.0
- Quark 6.1 and 7
- Apogee X 4.0
- Mac Office
- Retrospect 6.1
- Suitcase X1
- Acento 2E Platesetter running Azura chemistry free plates
Pressroom
- 28" Komori Lithrone, 5 color with aqueous coater and PQC1 console
- 26" Komori Sprint
Bindery
- Rollem Slipstream with in-line Ameripak shrinkwrapping
- 44" Saber cutter
- Hickok corner cutter
- Baum folder
Box and Board
- MD Knowlton Fiberboard slitting and scoring
- 2 Crathern Case makers (set up box making)
- 2 Crathern laminators (game board making)
Assembly and Fulfillment
- 10 station assembly line with Hanagata Shrinkwrapper
- 10 station assembly line with Conflex Shrinkwrapper
- In-line on-pack Nordson Dura Blue 4 hot gluer
- Datamax M-Class Barcode label printing
- In-pack hand inserting
- Auto carton sealing
- Auto Pallet wrapping
Environmental Programs
Late for the Sky is on track to make completely earth-friendly games. 100% of the unused paper involved in making our board games is recycled. The fiberboard used in making the set-up boxes and game boards is all recycled material. Late for the Sky is an alcohol free printing operation that uses only soy based inks. Corn based shrink wrap is currently being used and will soon replace all petroleum based shrink film. The plastic game tray that holds the game parts, currently a high impact styrene, is being replaced by a water bottle grade, #1 recyclable material. Metal game tokens are being transitioned from lead-free pewter to zinc. Recycled glass is becoming an alternative to styrene "house and hotel" game pieces. All of our games are made in the USA - produced in Late for the Sky’s Cincinnati facility. The game parts are all domestic, and most are produced less than 50 miles from the operation. The dice are made in China, the only known play dice manufacturing location in the world. |
