Troedel was one of the country’s oldest printers, it was established some 153 years ago, and was run by brothers Alastair and Bill Troedel. According to the company its founder Charles Troedel was Melbourne’s first lithographic printer.
David Shandler, director of Docucopy confirmed to Australian Printer that the company was in liquidation, but when asked for details declined to give further comment.
The debts of Troedel-Docupory are thought by the liquidator to run into several hundred thousand dollars, but the final figure won’t be in until next week.
The merger last year created the new company Troedel-Docucopy, with the two existing companies William Troedel & Co and Docucopy remaining as legal entities, Australian Printer understands that all three entities are now in liquidation, with liquidators looking to realise their assets.
Andrew Hewitt, liquidator at Grant Thornton says, “Troedel-Docucopy was the sales and marketing arm of the group, it bought print from the other two businesses and sold it to the customers.” Bad debts are believed to have a played a significant role in the company’s demise.
The two businesses merged in April 2012, and were based in Troedel’s premises in South Oakleigh, and had a staff of 34 people at the time of the merger, which occurred without any job losses.
When the two businesses merged last year, Shandler told Australian Printer, “We have been working together for eight years, and we have built up a good relationship, my company Docucopy focused on digital printing and when customers would call up for offset quotes we would hand it over to Troedel, who returned the favour when asked for digital work. Troedel needed to get into digital and this was the best possible solution for both businesses. I’m excited about the merger and I’m happy there were no job losses in the process, we have now become one big family.”
The digital equipment from Troedel-Docucopy included four Fuji Xerox machines, a Nuvera 288, Nuvera 100, Xerox Color 1000 and Xerox Color 800, while the offset presses are all Heidelbergs, including a six colour Speedmaster 74, five-colour Speeedmaster 52, two-colour GTO 52 and a one-colour 52.
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