The International Association of Diecutting and Diemaking (IADD) has selected John Gordon as the recipient of the IADD Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been an active member of the IADD since 1983. As well as being highly involved in the IADD, Gordon’s impressive professional background was considered in the award’s selection process. After working for a company that manufactured flexographic printing plates and steel rule cutting dies for the corrugated market, he and his wife founded Jonco Die Company Inc. in 1965 that now has 82 employees at a 45,000 square-foot facility in Mounds View (MN) USA.
Under Gordon’s leadership, Jonco Die Company Inc. has been an innovator within the industry. The company holds three patents and one pending, directly related to converting and was the first diemaking company in its market to install a CAD system and CAD driven plotters and was the first company to offer laser cut dies, counterplates, machine processed rule and water jet cut rubber in the markets they serve.
