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NH INDUSTRY NEWS

New home for Fespa team

Fespa has moved following the expansion of its team. Its new address is: Holmbury, Dorking Business Park, Station Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1HJ. w www.fespa.com

Roy Burton with Colonel Tim Richards (far left) and Yungrok Park (left)

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YES unveils new machine and ink system at Grand Opening On 8 December 2016, the Vice Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, Colonel Tim Rich- mond, officially opened the Mansfield headquarters of Your Embroidery Services (YES). Specially invited guests, including many of the company’s valued customers and mem- bers of the press, attended the ceremony. Sovereign House has been completely renovated by YES: the 17,000 sq ft facility now houses a large warehouse and suite of offices along with showrooms that allow the team to demonstrate SWF embroidery machines, DTG Digital printers and other decora- tion equipment to garment decorators. On the day of the ‘Grand Opening’, tours of the new building were accompanied by machinery demonstrations: in the embroidery showroom, a single-head SWF machine attracted plenty of attention from guests as it embroidered a Quadra bag with the space invaders design that the YES team had created for the step-by-step feature in the De- cember issue of Images. The embroidery showroom also housed the new Plot Spangle machine. This device punches circles from foil tape, quickly creating a rhinestone-effect design onto a film, which is then heat pressed to transfer the design on to the garment. In the DTG Digital printers showroom, YES’s sales director John-Paul Burton demon- strated the stretchability of the new P30i inks that come as standard with all new DTG M2 printers. The P30i inks have been developed specifically for the M series machines and are said by YES to have a lower viscosity than other inks, combined with a lower surface tension, and won’t fade during curing. Following a speech by Roy Burton, the founder and managing director of YES, embroi- dery technician Steve Gilbert was presented with a Tag Heuer watch to commemorate his being the company’s first ever employee more than 20 years ago. SWF Embroidery’s representative from South Korea, Yungrok Park, then presented Roy Burton with a com- memorative vase decorated with traditional Korean art. w www.yesltd.co.uk

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M&R announces launch of first hybrid printer

M&R is entering the hybrid mar- ket in 2017 with the launch of the Digital Squeegee. Slated to hit the market early this year, the Digi- tal Squeegee is said to be able to print at the same speed as conventional screen presses. For more information on the entire hybrid mar- ket, including an in-depth Q&A with the manufacturers, turn to page 50. w www.mrprint.com

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