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20 years of Trotec Laser I
n just 20 years, Trotec Laser has grown from a start-up business to a world leader in laser machines for cutting, marking and engraving.
Starting out in an industrial container focusing on R&D in 1997, the company has come a long way to reside in its current eco-friendly headquarters in Austria. In 2015, Trotec's sales volume exceeded €100 million for the first time, an aspirational goal which had been defined years earlier. In 2016, the latest completed financial year, Trotec increased sales by 9.1%, to almost €110 million.
The high growth rate continues in 2017 too. With a predicted sales increase of 20%, Trotec sets a major milestone for its sales volume goal in 2020. Dr. Andreas Penz, spokesman of
Trotecʼs management team, said: “This increase in sales seems incredibly high at
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first sight, but the laser business is an extremely dynamic one, and laser applications are now found in all major areas of life. For example in medical engineering. We manufacture stents with our laser machines. Or in the field of research, where laser applications are simply indispensable, for example in the development of the Mars Rover. "Trotec laser technology plays an
To this, Trotec’s HQ in Austria
important role in industry and trade as well. The pivotal question is: Why do we make lasers? Answer: We make our customers successful, and this sustainable strategy allows us to grow exponentially.”
The goal for the future of Trotec Laser is to become the worldʼs number one in the laser segment and the market leader in the defined core markets.
USB2U celebrates 15 years of operations O
n October 2, USB2U celebrated its 15 year anniversary with numerous events held at its
Northampton HQ.
Sebastian La Porta, managing director at USB2U, said: “This is a monumental achievement both in terms of what the company has achieved as well as for the staff who continue to provide a higher quality service to our clients each and every day.
"The growth and reputation of our brand is something weʼre very passionate about and the fact that we have been able to build strong, lasting relationships with our customers over the 15 years has helped us reach the position we are in now.”
The team celebrates
Established in 2002 and originally operating out of a small garage, USB2U quickly grew from its capitalisation on a growing market for USB memory sticks, eventually moving to bigger premises to
Dave Roper announces Septemberʼs T shirt of the Month
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he September winner of Dave Roperʼs T shirt of the Month competition is a design by Ob1 Brand.
This is a brilliant white printed on a Fruit of the Loom Super Premium T using a print/flash/print method hand pulled through a 156 (62T) mesh screen. The ink used is Amex PF Flash White Extra plastisol. Brett Elesmore of Ob1 Brand said: “I really like this ink as it has a good consistency that is really easy to work with and a good opacity on dark garments. The tees were printed on a six-colour Riley Hopkins Jr press and cured with a BBC Little Buddy II tunnel dryer.” The design came about as a way to raise money for the Micro and Anophthalmic Childrenʼs Society as Mr Elesmore ran the London Marathon on
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behalf of the charity back in April. He added: “Their logo is a bunch of balloons so I wanted to try and incorporate that while still having the design in keeping with my brand. I therefore designed an old traditional hot air balloon with elements of geometric patterns and dot work and decided all profits from the sales would go to MACS. “I would like to thank Dave Roper for being such a good and friendly company to with and thank Dave in particular for all the advice, guidance and encouragement.” Dave Roper added: “The most important reason why this T shirt is Septemberʼs winner is that all the profits go directly to the MACS. This is a charity which supports children born without eyes or with underdeveloped eyes.”
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keep up with growing demand. From 2005 the company re-established itself by moving away from just selling USBs to offering them as a unique promotional product to B2B customers, and the rest as they say is history. As of today, the company now sells more than 1.5 million printed, engraved and customised products every year to a variety of clients in various industries across the globe. The companyʼs product portfolio has continued to expand year on year as well to now include a wide range of promotional tech including power banks, speakers, headphones and car accessories to name a few.
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