Engage Technologies

Engage Technologies Corporation is the parent company of Squid Ink Manufacturing, Inc., Eastey Enterprises, AFM, and Cogent Technologies, Inc. Engage Technologies is headquartered in Brooklyn Park, MN. Squid Ink specializes in the manufacture of industrial coding and marking equipment for the packaging industry. Squid Ink industrial ink jet printers are used to print bar codes, logos, batch numbers, date codes, lot numbers and other product information on primary and secondary packaging. Substrates include corrugated cases, coated corrugate, plastics, metals, wood, glass and other materials. Squid Ink also sells a complete line of replacement fluids used in competitive hi-res ink jet, large character DOD (drop-on-demand), small character CIJ (continuous ink jet) and contact coder printing systems. Eastey Enterprises is a leading manufacturer and supplier of heavy-duty shrink packaging equipment, case tapers, printed tape, and other packaging equipment. Eastey’s shrink packaging products include a complete line of L-sealers, sleeve wrappers, shrink tunnels and bundling equipment. Eastey also supplies a complete line of case tapers and printed tape. AFM manufactures and supplies a complete line of shrink sleeve labelers, heat shrink tunnels, full body labels, tamper evident seals and contract labeling and packaging services. AFM shrink sleeve labeling solutions are used for industries including food and beverage, medical and pharmaceutical, building products, and other manufactured goods. Cogent Technologies designs, manufactures and sells infrared drying systems used to dry ink in the graphics industry. Cogent IR drying systems are used in direct mail addressing applications to facilitate higher printing speeds. Founded in 1952 under the name Research, Inc., the company was initially established to develop infrared-based heating systems for the aerospace industry.