image description — The company is known for its decorative overlays for flooring and other home decor.

Interprint Investing $7M in Pittsfield Plant, Hiring More Workers

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Interprint is investing more than $7 million in its printing facility off Route 41 and expects to have nearly 200 employees within the next year.

The investments include a new printing press to support the company's rapidly growing printed décor business.

"This new press, which will allow us to print films at increasingly higher speeds and quality levels, uses the same advanced technologies already proven on the film printing machine we commissioned in 2020," said Interprint co-Managing Director Roland Morin.

Construction and installation of the new press will take place throughout 2022, with an anticipated startup in early 2023. At its Pittsfield plant, Interprint currently operates five presses designed to print décor paper for the laminate industry, and a sixth that prints flexible films for the growing luxury vinyl flooring industry.

Developed in partnership with a European machine manufacturer, the rotogravure printing press will expand Interprint's capacity to produce flexible film-based decorative overlays specifically used in the manufacturing of flooring, furniture, and other consumer products.

The new press will also expand the company's capacity to produce printed décor paper.

"While this investment directly addresses the rapid growth of our film and flooring business, it will provide scheduling flexibility to help meet the increasing demand from our traditional laminate customers," said co-Managing Director William Hines Jr.

He added, "we are thankful that this prosperous vision for Interprint in Pittsfield is shared by our board of directors and shareholders in Japan."

In preparation for the new machine's startup, Hines estimates Interprint's Pittsfield facilities will grow to nearly 200 employees by the end of 2023. "Creation of family-supporting jobs in Berkshire County has always been a major goal of ours," he continued.

Interprint is a worldwide leader in décor design and printing for the decorative laminate, furniture, case goods and flooring industries.

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DA Provides Updates on 4 Pittsfield Summer Shootings

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:11PM / Thursday, November 05, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass.— District Attorney Timothy Shugrue delivered updates on a string of gun violence incidents over the summer and said even one is too much.

"This summer was extremely upsetting to people living in Pittsfield and our entire Berkshire community. While we live in a safe community, it is always disheartening to hear these gunshots. In the past four years, there has been a remarkable reduction in gun violence," he said during a press conference at the Berkshire DA's office on Thursday.

"Since January 2023, there has been a 62 percent reduction of validated shootings in the City of Pittsfield."

There were four separate incidents involving gunfire in Pittsfield this past summer. Some suspects were charged, and some are still being sought by police.

On June 18, a person died after being shot in the area of Tyler Street and Pleasure Avenue, and another person was injured. Following an extensive investigation, the Pittsfield Police Department applied for and was granted an arrest warrant for Terry Martizna, wanted for murder.

Shugrue reported that his office is working with various authorities, including federal, to secure Martizna's return to the Berkshires. He said he was involved the whole weekend of the incident after being "immediately" contacted by the PPD.

"My office was on notice, and we continued to work with them throughout the night. I can tell you that they worked all night long; they never stopped working. I was really pleased with the amount of effort that was going into it, and by the next day, we had a pretty good clue of where we were going. But the amount of surveillance that they had to go through was incredible, and it was just commendable," he added.

"The amount of support we got from the community, from the Pittsfield residents, and from the work that these officers put in all weekend long, they were able to identify certain locations where this individual was, and that continued all the way in through Monday morning. By that Saturday, I was informed that we had a suspect that we were just producing the probable cause reports, and that was all which led to the warrant coming out."

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