Aldus Engineering and Tronics are set to become one, with the new company being known as Aldus-Tronics.

Ian Guanaria, the long serving general manager of Aldus Engineering will be retiring, with Tronics’ managing director Frank Floriano running the new joint venture. “Frank Floriano served his apprenticeship with Aldus in the 1980s, so I have known him for many years. He will be heading up the new company while I retire and go sailing.” says Guanaria.

Guanaria says that there are no great changes to either company’s staff happening ‘in the foreseeable future’. With everything signed and sealed, Guanaria says he expects “the whole thing to be in place by June 30.”

For Guanaria, it is a logical fit. “We have always been more of the printing side, while Tronics has been in end-user packaging. It allows us to move into packaging, and them to move into printing” he says.

In Sydney both companies will be combining to work out of the Aldus location, while Tronics’ workshop in Melbourne will remain as is, with both companies set to keep their equipment post-merger.

Guanaria is one of the longest serving members of the local industry, he has been in working in print for the past 45 years.

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