Vivid Laminating Technologies has promoted 20-year company veteran Gavin Ward to the position of technical director.
His promotion to this newly-created role comes as the company, a designer and manufacturer of laminating and finishing systems, gears itself toward putting more emphasis on its R&D activities, with plans and aspirations to bring many more exciting new technologies to market in the coming months and years. It recently added Velo Blade, a new flatbed cutter to extend the services printers offer, and to create unique and intricate products.
Mr Ward said, ‘For a little over 10 years I have either been directly involved or managing the research and development side of this business and have overseen the development of systems and patented functionality such as the award-winning Matrix Pneumatic and its duplex variants, Matrix Metallic, Easymount Air and the integration of our Magnum range.
‘It’s come to a point where we’re working on many cutting-edge ideas, and we need to dedicate more time and resource to R&D.’
Martin Evans, Vivid Laminating Technologies managing director, said ‘Gavin has experience throughout the business and is very well respected amongst his peers, customers and our suppliers. He’s an ideas man, has fantastic technical ability and brings this together with his eye for design and mechanical knowledge. With our aims as a business, he is the perfect person to take our research and development to the next level.’
Mr Ward joined Vivid Laminating Technologies in 1997. He noted, ‘Since I have been at Vivid, there hasn’t been a time when we haven’t been working on something new, and that will continue. We have no plans to rest on our laurels. In fact, we’re working on some incredibly innovative projects that you’ll know more about in the coming months.’
