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

01:44PM / Thursday, December 09, 2021Print Story | Email Story

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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Pittsfield Council Revisiting DEI Office Restructure

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
04:11PM / Tuesday, October 13, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The conversation about the DEI office renaming that was halted by a charter objection will resume on Tuesday.

The City Council will discuss a request from Mayor Peter Marchetti to restructure the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

It proposes to rename the DEI office to the Office of Equity, Access, and Opportunity and merge the Human Rights Commission and Affirmative Action Committee into an Equity, Access and Opportunity Commission.

The Ordinance and Rules Subcommittee supported the changes in August, and in September, Ward 2 Councilor Cameron Cunningham delayed the vote with a charter objection.

Pittsfield's City Code prohibits charter states that "if a single member present objects to the taking of the vote, the vote shall be postponed until the next meeting of the city council." It also stipulates that at least four members must object if it is an emergency measure.

Cunningham also submitted a petition, which was referred to O&R under Rule 27, to replace the DEI Office and the Human Rights Commission with an equity, access, and opportunity coordinator in the Department of Community Development, with formal complaints and Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action functions assigned to Human Resources.

At the last meeting, he spent more than an hour querying the mayor and chief diversity officer about functions and effectiveness of the department, wanting more quantitative data. Cunningham proposed an ordinance that he says keeps Pittsfield's commitment to equity, access, and opportunity, "refocuses it on measurable results for our residents, and delivers it at a fraction of the current cost."

Under this petition, the equity, access, and opportunity coordinator would be a $60,000 to $80,000 per year position.

The DEI Office's fiscal year 2027 budget was about $200,000 after cuts during budget season; $106,700 for the chief diversity officer and $58,000 for the administrative assistant. The coordinator would be appointed by the director of community development and the mayor.

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