Growing Carbon Copy expands executive team
The digital copying industry requires owners to constantly upgrade their technology to keep pace in the fast-moving communications sector.
Carbon Copy Digital has stayed ahead of the game by introducing new equipment, products and staff.
When Tony Militano bought Carbon Copy Reproductions in 2000, after 15 years with another digital printing company, the business was housed in a plant on 10th Avenue S.E. He outgrew that space and in 2006 bought the former Clennan Square block on the west side of The Mustard Seed along 11th Avenue.
Militano turned the 28,000-square-foot building into a more modern facility, giving him additional space for administration and new equipment that included multiple large flatbed printers.
Much of Militano’s business was in providing services to the construction industry and architects.
When those industries wanted the convenience and efficiency of in-house printers, Carbon Copy Digital went into the leasing business. New construction had slowed, but growth elsewhere led Militano to reorganize his Calgary head office with a greater focus on home builders with the hiring of Tim Flaman.
After 22 years in this city’s digital print industry, Flaman resigned to purchase Western Sky Creative in 2014, a marketing agency. He has joined Carbon Copy Digital as the new vicepresident Calgary operations, joining Tony Smith, Calgary vicepresident business development, and Gord Olson, who runs the company’s Edmonton office.
Militano purchased a 15,000-square-foot Edmonton building in 2003 and business there has remained very steady.
A former board member of Digital Solutions Co-operative and currently on the board of The Educational Partnership Foundation, Flaman brought Western Sky Creative into the Carbon Copy Digital family, allowing it to grow its account list.
Calgary’s home builders have become key customers of Carbon Copy, which enjoys a growing relationship with many of the city’s biggest developers, supplying everything from marketing material to wraparound hoarding displays, banners and flagpole signs.
Staff at Carbon Copy are also kept busy with scanning and archiving documentation. Converting paper documents into electronic formats makes them easier to store and reduces space.
Restructuring his company has allowed Militano more time with industry associations. He was recently in Mainz, Germany, for an international conference as president of the International Reprographic Association and has interests in real estate in Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. He’s also a board member and investor in technology-based startup companies.
Beverly Sandalack, professor and associate dean with the University of Calgary’s faculty of environmental design, has been awarded the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects’ CSLA Teaching Award. Sandalack is the founding director of the university’s master of landscape architecture program. She has chaired the International Federation of Landscape Architects student design competition since 2004 and is a member of federation’s education and academic affairs committee.