Domino Printing Sciences is marking its 40th anniversary with the opening of a new fluids manufacturing facility in Liverpool, UK. From here, finished products will be shipped directly to its customers, sales channels and more than 200 distributors worldwide

The 16,000sqm site will provide the company with a significant increase in productivity and capacity as well as a reduction in lead times. The expansion has created 19 new jobs, bringing the total workforce of the factory to 88 over the next 9 months. Five times larger than the previous site, the new building includes a manufacturing area, quality assurance labs, dedicated customer training and seminar facilities, administration offices, conference facilities and warehousing space. It also possesses significant sustainability credentials, ranging from roof-mounted photovoltaic cells that generate solar power, to drains that send rainwater and surface water into attenuation ponds for natural drainage or evaporation.

The latest technologies in inline mixing capability, palletisation systems, materials handling processes, automated filling lines with high speed rotary filling heads and robotic automated handling systems are also part of the investment.

‘I’m delighted to be opening our new production facility, which is a further major investment for our company and follows the recent opening of our new factory in Shanghai serving the local market in China and the expansion of our HQ buildings in Cambridge,’ said CEO Nigel Bond. ‘These collective investments demonstrate our confidence in the business, the robustness of the markets we serve and our ambition to grow our market share and provide our customers with the highest service levels possible.’

He continued, ‘This new facility will accommodate the expansion of our fluids manufacturing capacity in line with growing demand, including a wider range of products and greater volumes. Not only will this meet our customers’ rapidly changing requirements, but also enable them to be even more responsive and competitive within their own marketplaces.’

Fluid operations director David Jenkinson added, ‘This is an important milestone for Domino and everyone who has worked so hard to bring this new facility to fruition. Two years ago, we held a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction and here we are today, seeing a state-of-the-art factory that is fully operational.’