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Schoolwear Association appeals for new members


he Schoolwear Association has called on the industry to unite ahead of upcoming challenges facing both retailers and suppliers of school-branded uniform.


The association, which this year has focused on giving schoolwear suppliers and retailers a voice in Parliament and providing support during COVID-19, is keen for new members to join its ranks.


With the Education Bill (Cost of school uniforms) due to progress through Parliament and be signed into law later this year, as well as the ongoing challenges caused by COVID-19, the association has warned that it will need further support from the industry to represent it to its best ability. Matthew Easter, co-chair of the Schoolwear Association, said: “Like any trade body, we rely on the support of our members. We have had a long-established base of membership, but over the course of the last year we have faced unprecedented challenges to the industry and these obstacles will not be going away.


“The fundraising that we started in late 2019 was vital to


enable us to give the industry a voice in Parliament and ensure that the costs of uniform and the supportive way the industry works with schools, parents and pupils was better understood. However, for us to continue to ensure that future guidelines are sensible and practical we need the more support from schoolwear retailers and suppliers who are not currently part of the SA.


“Membership of the Schoolwear Association is based on signing up to the principles set out in our Code of Practice so that we can continue to increase standards across the industry, as well as sharing best practice and strengthening links between schools, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers. “Members’ businesses benefit from these principles, as well as the Association’s media and lobbying presence and networking opportunities, meaning that membership represents great value for money.


“Given the pressures facing businesses in all sectors we know the coming weeks and months will be challenging, but with increased support from our industry, we will be able to do even more to support its interests.”


Epson UK teams up with Longdean School to design and wrap new ‘Mobile Milk’ delivery vehicle


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pson UK has recently completed a project with a high school, to design and wrap the Human Milk


Foundation’s new ‘Mobile Milk’ urgent delivery vehicle – the first of its kind in the UK.


The Human Milk Foundation, which is Epson’s official charity partner in the UK, helps families feed their babies with human milk by providing screened donor milk to sick, premature babies in NICUs, and to mothers with cancer and other illnesses.


The winning design of a competition held at the Longdean School, based in Hemel Hempstead was printed using SureColor SC-S80600 wide format


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pres has launched Xpres Plus, a new website to meet the demands of medium to larger printing


businesses.


Xpres Plus showcases an extensive collection of wide format equipment. From sublimation printers and heat presses to calenders, Xpres is geared up to meet the needs of a variety of different enterprises. The calender press range is stocked using industry leading machines from the likes of Diferro and Texpres. There is also a large, diverse choice of printers from Mimaki, Roland and Epson, as well as heat presses from the likes of Adkins and Sefa. All equipment from Xpres Plus is designed to deliver high volume printing for an efficient, cost effective solution to meet more intensive requirements. Damon Piall, Xpres sales director, said:


“We’re all very excited for this launch as Xpres Plus has been a long time in the


| 14 | September 2020 The Mobile Milk delivery vehicle


printers, with local car wrapping specialist, Max Media Prints using its expertise to wrap the vehicle. Daniel Quelch, sustainability manager at Epson UK, said: “The application of our product solutions to support the Human Milk Foundation has been a key component in our partnership. Working with Longdean School to engage its students with raising awareness for our charity partner has been tremendous fun and we hope that through activities such as this, we become one step closer to getting the Human Milk Foundation the much needed support they need to meet the increased demand from families across the country.”


Xpres launches new website to meet demand of larger printers


making, yet feels very much a natural progression for Xpres.


“Over the years, Xpres has helped literally thousands of customers start their first business. With a combination of support and our existing product portfolio, many have developed into very sizable operations producing high volumes of personalised product and decorated garments. Some even manufacture their own textile goods from scratch in-house, using a range of roll to roll print and finishing machinery. “To match our customer’s needs and ambitions, Xpres has also grown substantially in size and skill over the last few years. We soon realised that our product offering needed to expand towards more production level textile equipment to coincide with our customers’ requirements. So, whether they produce thousands of metres of digitally printed


fabric rolls per week, or run successful ecommerce personalisation web platforms shipping high volumes of printed garments per day, we needed to be able to offer solutions to make all of this a possibility for them. That’s where Xpres Plus comes in! “Xpres Plus is still managed from our headquarters here in Castle Donington. It serves as a shop window for production level equipment where some of our large customers may find solutions more befitting of their needs. The website is a brand new platform and will continue to grow in content over the coming weeks. “If you’re looking to move into volume production of anything textile, garment decoration, retail POS displays or volume personalisation of any sort, then Xpres Plus will have the level of equipment to make that all possible, with an unrivalled support structure to ensure everything runs smoothly from day one.”


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