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| Domino Wins Queens Award For Fifth time |
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 Domino Printing Sciences has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious award for business performance: the Queen’s Award for Continuous Achievement in International Trade.
This recognition, the company’s fifth since 1985, affirms Domino’s position as the one of the UK’s leaders in continuous growth and export.
The Continuous Achievement in International Trade Award has been awarded to Domino for substantial overseas earnings with growth and commercial success, sustained over not less than six years, to levels which are outstanding for the goods or services concerned and the size of the company’s operations.
“We are extremely honoured and proud to be selected for a Queen’s Award,” comments Nigel Bond, Group Managing Director of Domino Printing Sciences. “Over 95% of our revenue is generated outside the UK, with our unbroken 33 year record of annual revenue growth due to our continued investment in R&D, the hard work and dedication of our employees, and efforts of our partners and distributors globally. Receiving one of the most famous globally recognised prestigious awards for our international trade performance is the ultimate testimony of our continued progress as a business.
The Queen’s Award Office hosts a celebratory reception for the winners with a congratulatory speech usually given by a member of the Royal Family. A separate ceremony will take place at the winner’s premises, where a presentation will be made by the Queen’s representative, the Lord Lieutenant of the County. |
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| Item last updated: Thursday March 22 2012 13:14 |
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| Ingredients Manufacturer First For Innovative Labeller |
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To meet growing demand for its products, a speciality ingredients manufacturer has become one of the first food companies in the country to take delivery of new innovative bottle labelling applicators launched by Advanced Dynamics.
Advanced Dynamics, the sole UK distributor of Pack Leader's range of labelling equipment, has installed an ELF-50 desk top labelling unit at Orchard Valley Foods' production site at Tenbury Wells, in Worcestershire. The company is a supplier of bakery mixes, confections and powder ingredients to food manufacturers, artisan and craft bakers.
Orchard Valley Foods says the purchase of the ELF-50 is already paying off, with its site engineer Stuart Blumberg reporting improvements in productivity following the installation of the equipment on a line of own brand, 165g tubs of Secret Ingredients confections and decorations, that are currently sold exclusively to Lakeland.
Mr Blumberg said: "The ELF-50 is handling 15-20 tubs per minute and has speeded up our production line. The labels are also more professional in appearance. It's the first time we have used Advanced Dynamics and we would use them again for new equipment."
For speciality food manufacturers like Orchard Valley, the versatile ELF-50 is ideal as it can be moved around production areas and is easily adjustable for a large range of round bottles.
In addition to the ELF-50, the Pack Leader range includes the PRO-625 front and back system which can automatically label any shaped bottle, the high-speed PRO-516, ideal for high output and improved up-time, while the inline PRO-515 wrap around labelling machine and PL521 horizontal wrap system for medical and cosmetic vial labelling complete the line-up.
Aimed at a variety of sectors, Pack Leader PRO equipment is an exceptionally accurate and robust range of fully-automated label applicators which can be integrated into a line for a variety of container sizes, cartons and bottle shapes, whether glass or plastic, and can reliably label the full range of package configurations, at speeds of up to 40 metres per minute.
Bradford-based Advanced Dynamics believes that its new labelling equipment will revolutionise jar and bottle labelling in the UK, prove attractive to food producers by saving them money and help satisfy the demand from regulators, retailers and consumers for informatively labelled and attractively presented products.
Advanced Dynamics' joint managing director, Malcolm Little, said: "We believe this market-leading equipment can transform bottle labelling in this country and help food companies save money, improve productivity and reduce waste."
In the prevailing difficult economic climate, Advanced Dynamics is convinced that its range of new ELF Series label applicators offer the most cost-effective solutions needed to help food manufacturers boost profits. |
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| Item last updated: Thursday March 22 2012 13:14 |
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| Be A Winner With Linx In 25 Years Celebrations Competition |
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Coding and marking specialist Linx Printing Technologies is celebrating 25 years of innovation in technology and design with some fantastic competition prizes.
A quest to find the oldest surviving Linx continuous ink jet (CIJ) printer will form a central part of the jubilee celebrations.
On Linx’s 25th birthday, 6 July 2012, the owner of the oldest Linx CIJ printer in each of four global regions will be chosen to win a new Linx CIJ printer, fully installed, plus an ink and solvent pack to get them started.
What’s more, once a month, from April to July, one registered prize draw entrant will win a Linx TJ225 thermal inkjet printer.
Paul Doody, Marketing Director, says: “This is a significant milestone for Linx and we’re proud to have spent a quarter of a century coming up with many industry ‘firsts’.
“We now look forward to sharing with new and existing customers even greater reliability, lower costs of ownership and enhanced ease of use. These key characteristics have helped us serve our customers so well over the last 25 years, and will remain our focus for the next 25 years and beyond.”
Linx, based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, began manufacturing and selling CIJ printers in 1987 with the 5200, 5100 and 5150 models.
The company’s two founders, Mike Keeling and Hillar Weinberg, introduced new technology from the very start, including a totally sealed, adjustment-free printhead, time of flight viscosity control, and one-button start and stop.
These features went on to be adopted by other manufacturers and remain key features of all leading CIJ printers today.
Later innovations included the first autoflushing printhead, the first multi-message memory, the first icon-driven interface and the first manufacturer to offer IP55 as standard. |
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| Item last updated: Thursday March 22 2012 13:14 |
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