Screen Americas is to relocate to a new, larger, fully equipped and resourced North American headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.
The campus will be housed in a new construction, state-of-the-art technology park in Elk Grove Village, and will include an equipment staging and shipping depot, increased office space, and a Customer Experience Center.
Established in California in 1967 as Dainippon Screen USA, a division of Kyoto-based Screen Graphic Solutions, the company has been headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois since 1975, when its principal product was pre-press image scanners manufactured for offset printing operations across the country. The rapid rise and adoption of inkjet digital printing technology, especially in recent years, has seen Screen take on a leading position in the market with global installations in the past few years exceeding 1500 units for the roll-fed Truepress Jet520 and nearly 200 Truepress Jet L350UV roll-fed inkjet label printing devices.
Supporting the associated growth in supply chain demand for the presses currently in operation was one of the key drivers in moving to larger quarters, as Screen Americas president Ken Ingram explained
‘We were looking for a facility that will serve our needs for years to come. We want to be able to fulfil customer demand by providing complete solutions.
‘We will use our existing facility in Rolling Meadows for warehousing. This will allow our new facility, which is coincidentally housed on Innovation Drive, to be used to showcase new technologies, and benchmark and demonstrate new solutions for the markets we serve.’
Its centrepiece is a state-of-the-art Customer Experience Center, which will afford Screen Americas a comprehensive demonstration and training complex capable of handling future growth from the company’s planned launch of additional new print-on-demand technology offerings within the company’s portfolio of label and packaging technologies, as well as its high-speed continuous feed systems for the commercial print, direct mail, transactional, and publishing markets. “
Mr Ingram continued, ‘As we projected demand in the next 6-18 months and beyond, and planned for new products in new markets, the need for a new Customer Experience Center became an additional focus.’
His colleague Mark Schlimme, vice president of marketing at Screen Americas, said, ‘In support of new and current customers, our sales and service personnel will be available for product training at this new facility.’
To support the company’s growth, Screen America’s service and sales organisations will be expanded, including the addition of service and product support technicians working with dedicated sales and product manager teams, along with further capital investments in advanced service technology and delivery solutions.
‘This move will allow Screen to grow within the markets we already serve,’ concluded Mr Ingram.
