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06 images FEBRUARY 2017
NH INDUSTRY NEWS
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Print & Stitch
Village Hotel, Newcastle, NE27 0BY UK
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Coactive Newtech Southampton
Botleigh Grange Hotel, Southampton SO30
2FL, UK
FEBRUARY 26-28, 2017
Printwear & Promotion Live! 2017
NEC, Birmingham, UK
MARCH 14, 2017
Coactive Newtech Thetford
Lynford Hall Hotel, Thetford IP26 5HW, UK
MARCH 23, 2017
Print & Stitch
Hilton Hotel, Leicester LE19 1WQ, UK
MARCH 28-30, 2017
Sign & Digital UK
NEC, Birmingham, UK
APRIL 25
Coactive Newtech Edinburgh
Norton House Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh EH28
8LX, UK
MAY 8-12, 2017
FESPA 20117
Hamburg Messe, Hamburg, Germany
MAY 16, 2017
Coactive Newtech Leeds
Holiday Inn Leeds - Brighouse, Brighouse
HD6 4HW, UK
October 10-12, 2017
SGIA 2017
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New
Orleans, USA
DIARY
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.
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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.
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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.
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Roy Burton with
Colonel Tim
Richards (far
left) and Yungrok
Park (left)