Canon Adds A New State-Of-The-Art Production Facility For Water-Based Polymer Inks To Its UVgel Ink Factory At Venlo In The Netherlands
Canon has opened a new central ink production facility for Polymer ink on its innovation and development campus in Venlo, The Netherlands, to keep up with growing market demand.
With a focus on operational efficiency, the 1500 m² factory has been created from the shell of an existing building and fitted with the most up-to-date ink manufacturing equipment and levels of automation optimised to consistently deliver high-quality water-based, polymer CMYK inks and to minimise waste.
At the same time, the plant has created new jobs, with its 30 employees being a mix of redeployed staff and new hires.
Following on from the creation of its UVgel ink production unit in 2020, which doubled UVgel ink production in the last year, soaring customer demand has now obliged Canon to turn its attention to polymer ink production.
As a result, in order to support this increasing customer base and their ever-growing print volumes in applications such as high-quality promotional materials, transactional, direct mail, books, catalogues and magazines, Canon has scaled up its water-based, polymer ink production capacity by bringing the new plant onstream.
Rob Puts, Vice President Manufacturing and Logistics at Canon Production Printing, explains, “Our water-based, polymer inks were fully developed in-house and, as with all our in-house developed technologies, we piloted them here within our R&D facility. Once the inks had proved themselves in the market, as they clearly have, we invested in this new facility to meet the growing demand from existing customers as well as expected strong future demands. Dedicated to the production of water-based, polymer inks that can be used across our multiple inkjet production engines, the new, highly automated plant has been built to satisfy whatever level of growth our customers achieve.
“The factory enables us to offer our customers the best high-volume inkjet production machines on the market. And with the new plant, we’re confident supporting the growth of our customers’ business and of enabling them to produce the highest quality output.”
About Canon Venlo
Canon Production Printing Netherlands B.V., in Venlo, the Netherlands, employs around 1900 people.
The main activities are R&D, manufacturing and logistics of large format, sheetfed and cutsheet printing systems as well as supporting consumables and spare parts.
Founded in 1877 in Venlo, the Netherlands, our company has a long history of technical innovation and development.
A key asset is inkjet, a game-changing and widely applicable imaging technology.
Canon’s ambition is to build on their expertise in jetting for high-volume, high-speed printing and to position themselves as a thought leader in jetting technology and applications.
Jetting is key to our future, and we are energized by our exploration of its extensive possibilities.
