Coding company established

In a key move to facilitate this latest growth initiative, The Needham Group, which was founded in 1962 and also comprises Needham Coding Limited, Needham Coding Ireland Limited and Needham Inks Limited, has purchased an additional 1000 square metres of office space on Waymills Industrial Estate in Whitchurch, where it bought its current premises in 2012.
 
Aled Ellis, Managing Director at The Needham Group comments: “With the development of our best in class ‘N’ series of CIJ printers, it was a natural next step to set up a dedicated distribution business which could offer the full range internationally via our network of 100 plus highly experienced ink distributors.
 
He continues: “The creation of a distribution company and purchase of additional premises represents significant investment for the business, but will allow us to promote and support the demand from Europe and the rest of the world, more effectively.
 
“By utilising our own ink technology, courtesy of our sister company Needham Inks, it will enable us offer a complete package for our global customers based on print performance, reliability and commercial attractiveness,” Aled adds.

“Group sales have doubled over the past three years but it is through the export activity where I expect major growth over the coming months and years,” he concludes.

Needham Coding’s new user-friendly, low maintenance ‘N’ series of CIJ inkjet printers offer small and large character printing from 0.6mm up to 19mm. Providing major cost, performance and environmental benefits, the ‘N’ series boasts a Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) of 40,000 operating hours and is designed for harsh wet and dry applications.

Ideal for global coding and marking applications, the compact ‘N’ series uses multi-national character sets, featuring multiple languages and Unicode character printing. The printers accurately and reliably reproduce a wide range of fonts such as bar codes, batch numbers and best before, sell-by and expiration dates, as well as other logos and graphics, directly onto uneven or flexible substrates like glass, plastics, paper, metal and rubber.

The ‘N’ series offers Trupoint which provides superior CIJ print quality. Through high speed processing and CIJ specific electronic hardware, millions of drop patterns are dynamically adjusted on the fly to achieve best in class print quality. The printers also incorporate CleanStart technology which automatically cleans the system eliminating the need for daily and weekly manual cleaning.