Decorator Profile
The RDM Gregg team
All set for the future
The arrival of 2018 saw many new developments for family run RDM Gregg. An £800,000 investment in new screen printing equipment and a new print unit will ensure the company can continue to maintain its position as one of the leading garment decorators in East Anglia for many years to come.
P&P editor Melanie Attlesey reports. A
t the beginning of last year, Dave Brignal and his partner Mark Gregg took the decision to expand and develop the screen printing side of the business. This saw the pair purchase an 8,000sq ft unit opposite the 5,000sq ft unit they currently own on a trading estate on the outskirts of Norwich. The unit was an empty shell when Dave and Mark first started transforming it six months ago. Dave explains: “We have spent many years specialising in embroidery and have in excess of 50 embroidery heads. The natural progression to develop our garment decorating abilities was to invest heavily in the most modern and efficient screen printing equipment from MHM.”
The target
The companyʼs target was to automate the entire screen printing process in house. To achieve this, two 12 station/ nine colour MHM S-Type Xtreme automatic screen printing presses, four Calmatech flash cure units, a Spyder II direct to screen image printer, a Zentner Systems Premium 100 automated screen coating unit, a Zentner Systems Multiline Aquatec Developer GE10/15 automated screen developing machine, an EXILE
It’s a bit of a running inside joke that all we do in the ink kitchen is bake cakes. When we posted a job advert online for a member of staff to work in it we got a hundred chefs apply for the role.
–Dave Brignal, director | 66 | April 2018
, RDM Gregg Inside the company’s original unit
V-Light LED Exposure Unit, and an Ecotex Plus gas dryer from Adelco, were purchased, totalling an investment worth £300,000. A modern ink kitchen was also installed where inks can be mixed to create exact Pantone-matched colours ready for the printers. A pair of internet linked formula scales makes this all possible. “Itʼs a bit of a running inside joke that all we do in the ink kitchen is bake cakes. When we posted a job advert online for a member of staff to work in it we got a hundred chefs apply for the role,” laughs Dave.
This new equipment now means that RDM Gregg has the capacity to print approximately 200,000 garments a month and multi-colour set up times have reduced to around 10-15 minutes. Dave adds: “We chose MHM equipment because of the speed of the set up times and indeed the capacity of output. The equipment we chose is also fully compatible.”
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