Family-Owned Since 1978. Cutting Tabs Since 1993.

Anselmo Die & Index is what the internet has made rare: the actual factory. Here is where we came from, and why it matters to your job.

1978 — Anselmo Enterprises, Inc.

The company was founded in 1978 as Anselmo Enterprises, Inc. — a family business in the Chicago suburbs built on a simple promise: do the work in-house, do it right, and answer the phone yourself. That promise hasn't changed in nearly five decades.

1993 — the die-cutting pivot

In 1993 the company found the niche that would define it: die-cutting custom index tabs. The name changed to Anselmo Die & Index Co., Inc. to match, and the plant has spent the thirty-plus years since focused on one craft — printing, cutting, Mylar-reinforcing, collating, and finishing tab dividers and the bindery work that surrounds them.

Today — one plant, one family, both sides of the market

From the same Schaumburg floor we serve two kinds of customers: direct clients and trade printers who resell our work under their own name (see tab manufacturing for the trade), plus consumers and offices who design and order online at Tabzoola.com — our own storefront, backed by this plant.

The equipment

• Automated and manual index tabbing systems (high-volume Scott lines plus hand systems for delicate stock)
• Programmable cutters and custom steel-rule dies
• Canon digital production presses and conventional offset
• UV screen printing and instant-cure drying for poly and specialty substrates
• Automated collating and Mylar edge reinforcing

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