Industry News Roq enters new era with new look


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fter 38 years of building a solid leadership in the textile printing industry worldwide, Roq has unveiled new branding.


This new image reflects the commitment of the company within this market.


Coupled with this, Roq is breaking into textile digital printing, with a wider


Gorfactory shows its commitment to the environment


orfactory is developing several projects in order to do its bit for the environment.


One of these initiatives is the installation of solar panels at the company’s facilities in Spain. The photovoltaic installation has a total of 1.484 REC N-peak series solar panels of 310 Wp each, which sums up to 460,04 kWp.


Buildings with photovoltaic cell installations are benefited by this type of energy as they do not pollute the air or produce greenhouse gas emissions, which avoid contributing to global warming or water pollution. Thanks to the fantastic solar panels installed at Gorfactory, the distributor has achieved the following: • Energy consumption: 1.324.162 kWh/year.


• Theoretical photovoltaic production: 650.981 kWh/year.


• Usable photovoltaic energy: 461.792 kWh/year.


• Non-usable photovoltaic energy: 189.189 kWh/year.


• Current CO2 emmissions: 461 tCO2/year.


• CO2 emissions with photovoltaic energy: 300 tCO2/year.


In addition to this, Gorfactory has planted more than 60,000 trees during the last four years.


Between 2017 and 2020, Gorfactory planted 16,000 trees in the region of Murcia, and this year will plant 47,000 more among endemic and fruit trees. This has seen a reduction of 10,500 tons of CO2 emissions per year.


| 18 | July 2021 The branding on Roq’s HQ in Portugal


portfolio of new solutions for customised machinery and components, to innovative printing technologies for the fashion world, textile industry and now, web-to- print businesses.


Fernando Pinto, CEO, said: “All over the world, from creative entrepreneurs to global fashion brands, and to industries alike, Roq will continue to be a beacon of innovation and quality.”


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Mimaki appoints Mark Sollman as product manager EMEA


ong-standing Mimaki employee, Mark Sollman, has been appointed to the role of product manager, EMEA. Mr Sollman has been with Mimaki for over 15 years and as such, his extensive knowledge of the business and its diverse product portfolio makes him the clear choice for this esteemed management position.


He said: “I accepted this role with much excitement and a great deal of enthusiasm. It’s a fantastic opportunity


Mark Sollman has been appointed to the role of product manager, EMEA at Mimaki Europe


to take a lead role in a business that I am strongly committed to. Even after all these years, Mimaki is a company that continues to inspire and challenge me with each new product development and technology break-through. It constantly advances its product range to support its customers and meet new industry trends, and I am looking forward to now being at the helm of this innovation.” Mr Sollman will be succeeding Bert Benckhuysen. After four years with Mimaki, Mr Benckhuysen has decided to take on a new challenge as business development director at Colourama. A valued Mimaki customer, Colourama is a company he knows well, having also previously been employed as production manager at this thriving Polish textile printer.


Successful kick-off of online event series for PSI A


total of around 3,500 advertising professionals tuned in when PSI digitally brought together the


industry’s assembled knowledge for 48 hours from May 19 to 21.


More than 20,000 search queries were made in the PSI Product Finder and the company profiles were clicked on more than 10,000 times. The video content was viewed live and on-demand more than 6,600 times. A total of seven Digital Fridays will follow from June until the next trade show, which will take place in Düsseldorf from January 11 to 13. Viewers from all over the world tuned in, including Denmark, Romania, India, the Arab Emirates, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and the USA. A total of 46% of the participants from almost 70 countries abroad sat in front of their screens


and watched around 20 hours of live programmes.


On the exhibitor side, the mood was also positive. Around 120 companies from Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Great Britain were present at the kickoff.


Petra Lassahn, director of PSI, said: “For all of us, it was a new experience to digitally represent the products and industry topics of the promotional products industry. Even though no digital event can replace the trade show on site, we have managed to offer the industry an event with added value. I am very proud of that.”


PSI Digital was just the kick-off. Starting in June, every second Friday of the month there will be a Digital Friday with a different focus.


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