President’s letter
FUTURE ENGINEERING
Alex Ardizzone is the owner of Future Engineering which has been a long time supporter of PAWA. I took the time to call on Alex soon after my election as President. His company is a thriving engineering business, carrying out manufacturing work for the oil and gas industry. It also manufactures etching presses for artists.
Alex’s first contact with PAWA was about 20 years ago when a now deceased member asked him to design a printing press. Starting from scratch, Alex worked out a design and after various improvements now manufactures two standard printing presses. They are the equal of or better than many presses manufactured in Europe or elsewhere in Australia. One of the standard presses is the full sized version which can be seen at the PAWA premises at Tresillian. This a geared model and can be operated by even a slightly built person. The other is a smaller bench press which Alex has donated in the past for acquisitive first prizes in exhibitions sponsored by PAWA. In Alex’s office he has many of the prints acquired from PAWA in past exhibitions.
Alex’s donation of printing presses in the past has provided extremely generous support for our Association and I thought that it was time to thank Alex and Future Engineering, on behalf of all our members, for their long time support. Thank you Alex.
While I was with Alex he showed me images of his presses on one of those splendid software packages which allows an object to be shown and then repositioned to be viewed from any angle by a mere click on the mouse. The drawings are works of art in themselves. If you would like to obtain details of the printing presses which Alex can manufacture, go to the excellent website of Future Engineering at www.futureeng.com.au
If you should want to buy a printing press, then Alex is the person to speak to. And when doing so get him to show you the drawings on his computer
Until next time, happy printmaking.
Chris Pullin. President.
