Esko expands Innovation Center in North America

Esko North America moved to its current site in Miamisburg in June 2010, which houses the company’s software support group, customer training and demonstration centers, marketing and business development functions, and its human resources, finance and administration operations. Esko has another office in the US in Ludlow, Massachusetts, mostly for software development purposes.

The Esko Innovation Center in Ohio has been expanded 16 percent in size to 33,580 sq ft, with nearly one million USD invested in office refurbishments and dedicated areas for demonstrating hardware and software.

The opening of the expanded Esko Innovation Center was marked with an Open House attended by local township officials and the Esko North America leadership team.

In addition, the Esko Innovation Center features Kongsberg cutting tables, including the super-wide Kongsberg C, which are typically used to produce packaging prototypes as well as short production runs of displays and packaging. Also at the site are CDI imaging devices used to create digital flexo plates, and software that is used by brand owners and printers to develop a wide range of packaging and display materials.

Jon Giardina, Esko Americas president, said: ‘Esko on a yearly basis schedules a full calendar of visits from our customers – brand owners, designers, service companies and printers – offering enhanced and updated training, meeting and state-of-the-art demonstration areas.

‘Our facility is complete with all the software and hardware needed to replicate any workflow environment that mirrors how our customers’ businesses operate. It allows them to experiment to see how new solutions might improve their productivity and print quality.’