In 1949 Mr. Giorgio Bisutti, having worked for 20 years as Director of the Research Laboratory at the glass factory Cristallerie di Murano, in Venice, founded his own Company: Policrom Screens. His in–depth knowledge of all the technologies related to glass set the basis to start the manufacturing of glass screens for halftone reproductions. During the following three decades, Policrom Screens became the worldwide leader of this market: while the product technology was innovating from the earlier glass to contact film screens, Policrom Screens evolved its know–how, acquired its European and US competitors, from Retini Italia and Swisscreen to Max Levy and F.E Brown, and took over the production of the Japanese Dai Nippon Screens. When the electronic technology replaced halftone screens, the Company had leveraged its international structure to market other products for the Graphic Industry in the whole world.

In the early Eighties the Company specialized in converting films for the graphic industry, from masking film to montage foil; and by the end of the millennium Policrom Screens had established as the European market leader of montage film.

Meanwhile, thanks to partnerships with the most important world manufacturers of polyester and coating industries, Policrom has consolidateda specific, unique expertise in all films and media for the graphic industry, developing a full range of films for the offset and silk–screen printing press (duct foils, underpacking foils, printable media) as well as for the digital printing industry (films and papers for ink–jet, laser printers and for copy machines, as well as media for Indigo and Xeicon digital presses).