Special Report Top of the Spandex iceberg
Following the success of its premiere event in March, Spandex once again brought all of its products under one roof, only this time at its HQ in Bristol. All 10 brands that showcased at the Glasgow summit came out again along with four new ones, all to represent their products and meet with customers. The summit is pushed as the place to go to get to grips with the Spandex range so with that, assistant editor Benjamin Austin was invited to Bristol on June 24 to find out more.
Arlon stand
Vinyl on display What took up the majority of the show space were stands displaying the many graphics, films, and vinyl brands available from Spandex. From Arlon to 3M, Avery Dennison to Spandex’s own range, Image
Perfect, there was a vast selection of products to learn about. There were the aforementioned ones but other brands on display were: Stek, Orafol, KPMF, Berger Textiles, and CoverStyl. Visitors could speak with brand ambassadors and sales
representatives about any product and get the chance to try some of them out. Live demonstrations were taking place throughout the day with
Image Perfect’s stand
professional wrappers exampling their company’s products and Spandex’s very own application specialist, Jason Davidson, was also on hand to show attendees the perks of some of the products. Tom Hogarth, business development director at Spandex was at the summit representing Image Perfect. He said: “You can find a vinyl to do anything these days but what’s more important is having a product that’s versatile. “It’s about sticking to multiple things instead of multiple products
sticking to one thing. Helping customers pick out a product for all not just one.”
Orafol stand
Spandex’s application specialist Jason Davidson doing a demonstration
Wide-format zone A large part of the floorplan was dedicated to Spandex’s catalogue of large-format printing equipment it supplies. The room was filled mostly by Roland DG and Epson which
brought a series of machines to highlight including the recently released Epson SC-9100 and the Rolan TrueVis XP-640. Epson had brought one other machine in the R5000L while
Roland filled the majority of space with another four machines: These were the MG-300, AP-640, VG3-640, XG-640. Technicians were on hand to talk about the machines with customers and all were running for demonstrations.
Epson’s SC-9100 Roland’s TreuVis XP-640
Face to face interaction is crucial… I don’t think there is a substitute for
being there and having the conversation. That’s why I’m here to talk to our customers and more importantly listen to them. Our road map is created by our customers; they tell us what they want and we steer it from that. We call it the voice for the customer
— Tom Hogarth, business development director, Spandex UK | 46 | July/August 2025
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