Canon has opened a new production facility for water-based, polymer inks at its site in Venlo, The Netherlands. The 1500m2 factory has been created from the shell of an existing building and has high levels of automation to optimise production and minimise waste. The move has created a number of new jobs, with its 30 employees being a mix of redeployed staff and new hires.
Rob Puts, vice president manufacturing and logistics at Canon Production Printing, said: “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.”
