M&R CEO: "Screen Printing Will Survive" | A Conversation With M&R’s Danny Sweem

<div>We sit down with Danny Sweem from The M&amp;R Companies for an honest conversation about screen printing, DTG printing, and where the entire textile printing industry is heading for 2020. </div> <div>Learn more and see amazing pictures of M&amp;R HQ here: <a href="https://www.printavo.com/blog/screen-printing-will-survive">https://www.printavo.com/blog/screen-printing-will-survive</a> </div> <div>Located just miles from Printavo's Chicago offices, M&amp;R is a trusted partner for thousands of print shops across the world. Their Roselle manufacturing facility is a giant operation that produces equipment for a worldwide market.</div> <div>M&amp;R's famous blue screen printing presses have a reputation for lasting decades. Now, they've taken the leap into digital and hybrid printing with their Digital Squeegee and Maverick products. But the global pandemic represents a huge speed bump for the textile industry as a whole.</div> <div>We discuss M&amp;R's future, what's in store for the industry, and much more in this episode of the PrintHustlers Podcast.</div> <div>Q: How did you become M&amp;R’s CEO?</div> <div>“Rich Hoffman (M&amp;R’s founder and legendary CEO) called me during 2018. Our companies were having a dispute, so I thought he wanted to talk about that. He said, ‘Are you sitting down? Would you like my job?’ So after some meetings, I convinced the equity group that owns M&amp;R that I could have the job.”</div> <div>Q: What’s up with the new Rebel screen printing press? SHIRT KONG is always posting about it.</div> <div>See pics of the Rebel here: <a href="https://www.printavo.com/blog/screen-printing-will-survive">https://www.printavo.com/blog/screen-printing-will-survive</a> </div> <div>“The pandemic screwed up the launch,” Danny jokes, “But if I say too much, Thomas Trimingham [M&amp;R’s Director of Marketing] will strangle me.” The Rebel is a new press that M&amp;R has pioneered during the past year, with legendary screen print shop SHIRT KONG getting the very first model. “It’s a