Surface Print Marks Over 130 Years Of Family Association With The Printed Wallcovering Trade As It Looks To The Future With HP Latex Technology
This week Surface Print, of Clayton Le Moors in Lancashire, are celebrating Family Business Week, which honours the contribution family businesses make to the community and economy.
Surface Print are proud to be one of 5 million family run businesses in the UK.
Founded 30 years ago by John Watson, the current chairman, who has over 60 years’ experience in the wallpaper industry, Surface Print is led by John’s children; James and Abigail Watson.
The Watson family really do have wallpaper in their blood and this brother and sister team are the 4th generation of the family to be involved.
Their love of wallpaper can be traced back over a century to 1888 when their great grandfather Walter Watson joined Crown Wallpaper in Darwen as a trainee and quickly rose to become Managing Director.
Preserving local skills in Lancashire is crucial to the family, ensuring the knowledge is passed down through the generations keeping the craft alive.
Many of the team have worked in wallpaper all their lives and so there’s an enormous amount of experience wrapped up in the company.
Alongside, printing on machines, which are over 100 years old, Surface Print also offer the latest technologies in digital printing, and innovative developments such as Holographic Foil, Cork, Flock, Bead and non woven products.
HP Latex technology leads their digital printing offer, with widespread acclaim for its design flexibility, short run availability and unlimited colours.
In response to the unprecedented demand for their unrivalled digitally printed wallcoverings they have invested, yet again, in another new L3600 digital press.
The arrival of their fifth production digital press from Perfect Colours of gives Surface Print the greatest capacity for digitally printed wallcoverings in the UK.
This investment is partnered with the highest level of machine service provision – direct from HP with advanced operator training - leading to greater uptime and productivity.
The combination of investment in state of the art equipment, level 3 operator training for an already unrivalled team of professional digital press technicians, gives Surface Print customers access to the ultimate combination of facilities and expertise – with a heritage in wallpaper manufacturing that cannot be replicated.
Looking to the future with the latest digital machinery, Surface Print acknowledge their past history and the strong family tradition that has sustained them, making them ready to face the next 130 years together.
