Screen Truepress investment leads £1.3m expansion at Springfield

Three years of substantial growth are driving a 1.3 million GBP (1.65 million USD) expansion for leading digital printer, brand management and media company Springfield Solutions. The company, based in, Hull, UK, is on target to print more than 160 mollion digital labels in 2016, the most it has printed in a single year.

Springfield Solutions’ joint managing director, Dennis Ebeltoft (L) and Steve Nix, print operations manager at Springfield Solutions, in the company’s busy print room which is undergoing a £1.3m expansion.

As well as expanding into a neighbouring building, the company is investing in a new Screen Truepress Jet L350UV with Jet Converter and a new AB Graphic Digicon Series 3 finishing unit with buffer, which will be retrofitted to a current off-line Screen Truepress in the new factory. 

Dennis Ebeltoft, joint managing director of Springfield Solutions, said the investment would enable growth across each of the company’s divisions – digital print, brand management and media.

‘Springfield Solutions has a long history of innovation starting with our Brand Management division in 1975. We have taken the lessons learned from our reprographics and color management teams and used the same approaches to innovation with our digital print division.

‘With digital print, we have constantly pushed the boundaries with what is achievable, particularly in relation to quality, and now, in the majority of cases, we can match and quite often, better that of analog presses.’

The newly expanded building will see Springfield Solutions more than double the size of its digital print division from 408 sqm to 924.5 sqm, and brings the total number of digital presses operated by the company to five – three Screen inkjet presses and two HP Indigo presses – increasing Springfield Solution’s print capacity by 30 percent. It is forecast to be fully operational in the first quarter of next year.

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Thomas

  • Strategic director