SPGPrints Doubles Ink Production Capacity As Part Of Inkjet Leadership Strategy

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SPGPrints Doubles Ink Production Capacity As Part Of Inkjet Leadership Strategy

SPGPrints has announced that it has doubled the size of its digital ink production facility at its Boxmeer headquarters in Netherlands for the second time in two years.

The expanded 1000m2 production facility, which is part of an €8 million capital investment programme, is scheduled to open in the final quarter of 2017.

This will also include the building of the new Experience Centre, dedicated to driving innovation in digital textile printing by SPGPrints, which is a global leader in the production of digital textile printing systems. The company manufactures reactive, acid, disperse and sublimation inks for use with digital inkjet printers, covering the entire range of textile applications.

The expanded facility is in close proximity to SPGPrints’ research and development laboratories as well as its corporate headquarters so that communication chains are short in order to make decisions quickly. When the facility is completed, at least ten new positions per shift will be created, providing an employment boost for the local economy.

The investment in the ink plant expansion is another step towards SPGPrints’ goal of making digital as the mainstream printing technology for textile applications. For more than 30 years, the company has led the textile industry in digital technologies and is poised to continue that commitment through its innovation.

SPGPrints’ subsidiary company, Veco B V, in Eerbeek, Netherlands, develops precision metal parts for a wide range of markets, including the design and production of nozzle plates for inkjet print heads. The synergy enabled by relationships with major suppliers for print heads in the textile market means that inks as well as print heads can be designed to work optimally, in order to deliver the best technologies to the customer.

“The combination of research and development, print head expertise, close relations with print head suppliers, and our ink manufacturing capability gives SPGPrints a unique position in the textile market,” SPGPrints’ Commercial Manager for Digital Textiles Jos Notermans. “The increase in the volume of our ink production means that we will continue to be able to serve the expanding digital textile printing market which we have helped to build over the last three decades,” he said.