Tonejet, a manufacturer of advanced electro-static drop-on-demand (DoD) digital print engines, has opened the doors to its new facility in Melbourn, Hertfordshire, supporting production of its Cyclone direct-to-pack digital printing systems.
Every aspect of Tonejet’s Cyclone printing system, which provides low cost short-run digital decoration for beverage cans, is assembled and tested in-house at its new 1300sqm premises – from the surface priming system to the digital print engine itself. Tonejet formulates its own consumables, including pigmented inks, at the nearby Melbourn Science Park.
The company cited the new facility as a milestone in its journey, ‘allowing it to ramp-up manufacturing to meet worldwide orders for its unique Cyclone direct-to-pack digital printing systems.’
Tonejet CEO Rob Day said, ‘The space is ideal both as an R&D hub and operational centre, allowing our ink chemists, printhead technologists and printer engineers to work alongside their colleagues in production and customer support; I don’t think we could have found a better home.’
In addition to providing capacity for manufacturing, the new facility enables Tonejet to demonstrate the Cyclone system in its full end-to-end production form. Tonejet’s customers – including beverage packaging producers and brand owners – are able to conduct direct-to-pack digital print demonstrations, trial runs and pre-production proofing.
To this end, Tonejet has invested in de-palletizer, curing oven and re-palletizer units to test and demonstrate a full, end-to-end can printing line.
‘The location gives us both scale and efficiency as we continue to grow and develop,’ concluded Day.
