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INDUSTRY NEWS
New screen printer was an Essential addition to business
A new, £100,000 screen printer is to look at screen print
enabling Essential – formerly as demand grew.
Essential Embroidery Design Ltd – to “Our problem was
bring screen printing in-house for space,” added Mr
the first time. Giorgiou, who initially
Managing director, George considered opening a
Georgiou, has installed the nine separate screen print
colour, 12 station MHM Plus S Type plant, or buying an
screen printer at the company’s new, existing operation.
18,000sq ft premises in Dunstable. “Then these premises
Formerly based in Luton, the came about and at the
company has also undergone a re- end of February,
branding exercise. beginning of March, our
“On the face of it, we are a screen printer was
decorator, but there is a lot more to installed and is now up
the company and the and running.”
name change to Essential reflects Essential had been
the true nature of what we do,” said offering the service for
Mr Georgiou. two years, but
Established in 1998, the former two- subcontracting.
Essential’s general manager Vava Tsioupra and managing
director George Georgiou beside the new MHM screen printer
man operation now employs 38 “It meant that we were
staff. never in total control,”
“Print was a direction that we said Mr Giorgiou. “The
would quite naturally evolve into,” screen print facility is now winning to set it up on a budget, but we
added Mr Georgiou. “In the early business. All our existing customers have bought the best on the market
Clarification
days, we went direct to garment use screen print and we are getting – MHM – and already it’s proving BTC activewear has asked us to
print, which created a market for new customers on board. It’s an very popular and very successful. point out that our page 5 story in
us.” ideal scenario for us. “I would be shocked if we don’t the April issue of Printwear &
Essential developed a market for its “It would have been very easy for us bring in another machine by the end Promotion, inadvertently confused
Kornit digital machine, but needed to buy second hand machinery and of the year.” them with BTC Group. We
apologise for the error.
BTC activewear is well known to
Hot foil stamping system launched by KAMA
most of our readers as one of the
largest distributors of blank
garments to the imprint industry
KAMA has announced the UK launch CEO, Marcus Tralau said: “Our competitors.” and has recently moved in to a
of a hot foil stamping system for the customers will be able to exploit the The new module for the ProCut 53 is new £1m state of the art
ProCut 53 – the world’s first flatbed based on the proven hot foil distribution
A3 die cutter for offset and digital stamping module for KAMA’s centre at
printers. multi-functional die cutter Wednesbury,
The new hot ProCut 74. visible from
foil stamping This new module for A3 and just off
format works with four of junction
separately controlled 9 of the
heating zones and comes M6. BTC
with a choice of one or activewear
two independently wishes to
controlled foil feeders. The clarify
hot foil stamping can be that it
carried out within 510 x does not
360 mm (die cutting up to supply printed
510 x 380 mm). garments to the industry.
Between five to ten BTC Group on the other hand is
minutes, the ProCut 53’s based in Hayes, Middlesex and is a
warm-up time for hot foil leading distributor of creative
stamping is extremely promotional merchandise,
short. including pens, keyrings, mugs,
module The changeover from hot mousemats, umbrellas and printed
finishes the foil stamping to die textiles to some of the UK's best
most intricate scripts cutting is equally short, so known companies including Argos,
and designs with all kinds of hot that the die cutter can be used AA, BBC, and McDonald's
foils at a rate of up to 5,000 sheets
A hot foil
for many different jobs in the Restaurants.
per hour.
stamping module is
course of a single day. When An update on how BTC
KAMA say that additional now available for KAMA’s ProCut 53 changing from one application to activewear’s new Distribution
applications - flat hot foil and another, the insulated frame Centre is working and details of
embossed hot foil - make the KAMA wide range of possibilities hot foil containing the heating plates is how their newly introduced
ProCut 53 into a truly superb stamping offers to create three- simply exchanged for the chase with clothing brands are being received
finishing die cutter and embossing dimensional gloss and tactile effects the die cutting tools. by the market will be featured in
can be handled in a single and use that to distinguish their For more information visit our June issue.
throughput. products from those of their www.kama.info
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