About
This site was created by Roger Jennings and T.J. Mollahan as an educational resource to benefit all those interested in screen printing.
Roger Jennings has contributed over 200 articles to more than a dozen industry publications around the world over 30 years, and holds numerous patents, including all patents for cap printing. Impressions Magazine named Roger as one of the top innovators in the history of the industry.
After serving in the U.S. Navy for 6 years as a Lt. during which time he attended law school and received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Roger worked for the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand in New York City. 5 of his 6 years there were in the consulting division focusing on making clients profitable.
He then moved his family out of NYC to the Lake George region of New York to be chief financial office of a paper and pulp manufacturing company that employed 1100 people. That company, Finch Pruyn & Company, was losing $5 million per year and had been losing money at that rate for 5 years. Within 30 days of joining the firm Roger had turned Finch into a profitable company. Roger also became President of Finch Pruyn Sales, a chain of home centers.
He also served on the Boards of Valcour Imprinted Papers and the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce where he was named the Director of the Year for distinctive service. When he joined the Board of Valcour, the Company was losing money. When he left the Board, net income after tax was 25% of net sales.
After 5 years of increasing levels of profit at Finch, Roger founded R Jennings Manufacturing Company. At first the Company only fabricated substation structures for the utilities. The business was expanded to include drafting, design and electrical packages for rural electric coops, municipals, industrial companies, electrical contractors, and design engineering firms.
The business was largely seasonal. Screen printing equipment was added as standard products requiring the same manufacturing skills and equipment. Screen printing equipment was produced and inventoried during the winter with a work force available in good construction weather for substation orders. Today the Company also stocks supplies and prints what customers are unable to print. Occasionally they print for electrical customers where there is no conflict of interest with a screen printing customer as a way to test new supply products, new equipment and methods.
TJ Mollahan is what we would like to call a technical genius. Early aspirations lead him to a career in engineering. While he holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering his analytical and entrepreneurial mindset has drawn him to the digital realm of the internet. He launched a hosting and design company at an early age and currently facilitates a series of proprietary websites.
“My life goal is to remove the confusion from the world around me. I yearn to know how and why the world we live in works the way it does. The complex is nothing more then multiple layers of simplicity. With this understanding I hold the ability to demystify anything I put my mind to. In short my goal is to seek continual personal edification.”
TJ is a certified Jonah in the Theory of Constraints, a strategic thinking process widely implemented within Boeing and other large manufacturing organizations.
“I want to engineer business. The drive to understand the world around me doesn’t stop at the mechanical, it also pours into the social and economical systems that make our way of life possible. In the same way that I can marvel at the inner workings of an analog watch, I am equally intrigued by the internal dynamics that allow any system to operate day to day.”
Currently TJ is working on his masters in Engineering and Technology Management through Washington State University.