NEW LABLEASE PRICE SHEET & ORDERING INFORMATION

Effective December 1, 2002, there will be a $10.00 per roll price increase on all ESA Lablease rolls.  This is our first increase in a number of years and is caused by the increase in shipping costs.

LabLease products are shipped UPS prepaid and this shipping cost item has been creeping up on us without our realizing it.  We are sorry about having to do this but we can't put it off any longer.

LabLease has been a unique product in our line for many years.  This is our program to offer selected sizes of release paper in convenient pre-packaged cartons, in stock and ready to ship within a day of receiving your order.  All LabLease products are in 40# cartons, which make them very easy to ship via UPS and very easy to handle in your shop or lab.

MASTERCARD & VISA

This is a reminder that we do accept MasterCard and Visa for payments.  This works especially well when buying  Lablease or One-Eyed Horses materials as those are relatively small invoices and often shipped via UPS, so that all of your internal handling of such purchases is simplified.

And, you get to keep the airline miles that your credit card likes to shower you with.

CIRCLES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM STOCK

As this issue goes to press, we do have several sizes of Silicone Coated Separator Circles on our floor.  All of these are silicone coated 2 sides and have 3 1/8
 center holes

A SPECIAL OFFERING OF SHEETS

This is a 95# polycoated 2-sides, release coated 1-side material.  At 7 mil, these are thicker than most release sheets and will resist curl.  Please note:  these have silicone release coating on one side only, but are polycoated on both sides.  They can be on their way to you in a few days.

ONE-EYED HORSES

Our One-Eyed Horses feature is a listing of trim rolls and butt rolls available for prompt shipment.  Continuing our recent practice, we are no longer listing these items in the newsletter.  Instead you can find the list on our website.

But we do want you to sneak a peak at a few of the items that we would like to move in a hurry.  These three items are all 80#, C1S:

RELEASE PAPER AS ART

We have also added a new section to the website.  “Release Paper as Art” will be a gallery of photos for your viewing pleasure.  ESA’s resident photographer, Elliott Schultz, took the three photos currently on display. 

We encourage your photo submissions.  Please understand that Mr Schultz has set the artistic standard at a very high level, but we are confident that some submissions will be considered suitable for posting. 

PRINTING

Our newly acquired ability to offer printing is resulting in a number of inquiries.  Please remember that we can print your logo or message on the uncoated side of C1S release paper, as long as we can do it in one color.  This is certainly a good way of differentiating your product or providing instructions to the ultimate user.

ESA can provide the popular imprint, "REMOVE TO EXPOSE ADHESIVE", on release paper rolls slit to your preferred width.  Our printing is flexographic and one color only.  Standard red, blue, green or black are available.  The pattern repeats with alternate lines inverted.  Using this imprint would save you plate charges.

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

The Selection Committee has met again and determined the winner of the coveted Employee of the Month Award.  Because some people have been unhappy that Elliott Schultz has won this Award for 196 consecutive months and felt that the deck was stacked against Marty, it was decided to permit him to have some input into the selection process.

In an act of great magnanimity, the Selection Committee has broken tradition and elected to give Marty one vote.

Remember that in the voting process, each prior winner of the Employee of the Month Award gets one vote for each month that he or she has won it.  The voting for this month went as follows:

The Committee will have to decide later if the courtesy of extending voting privileges to Marty will be continued in future elections.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

We thank you for the kind words several of you sent following our noting in our last newsletter that you could drop off exhausted, recyclable batteries at Radio Shack for proper disposal.  A few of you took the time to tell us that you acted on that information and we are please that you did.