2016 has seen extensive growth for Midlands based manufacturer, Customark Limited, with over £465,000 of investment in space, equipment and staff.
Over an 18-month period local company, Customark have employed an additional 20 new staff and invested in extensive new manufacturing facilities expanding production diversity. As well as the head office based in Lye, West Midlands, the print specialists also operate from three other sites across the UK including Calne in Wiltshire, Cambridge and Oxford.
The investment has seen the Lye site benefit from three additional roll to roll digital printers as well as investment in a flat-bed digital printer, enabling the capability to print on to most materials, difficult shapes and intricate components. Further investments at Lye include three new labelling machines costing a total of £120,000. Calne benefited in a move to a newly refurbished factory and the addition of 2 more precision laser cutting machines (£50,000), added to the existing laser capability.
Established in 1968, Customark was originally founded as a label printing manufacturer, however today host a wealth of printing technologies, producing a vast range of products from industrial labelling, such as graphic overlays and membrane keypads to commercial point of sale including promotional shelf wobblers and floor graphics. Customark offer a wide range of print services including Screen Printing, Pad Printing, Digital and Rotary Flexographic.
Neil Turner, Managing Director said: “The investment programme has brought a huge amount of production diversity as well as new machinery and staff we have a new IT system which we expect to reduce the complexity of the business moving forward”
Over the last three years, Customark have seen a 10% growth year on year and has a turnover of just under £5m. Greg Lerigo, Customark Owner said: “Despite the Brexit vote, we still expect to see a return on our investment, which will allow for further development in staff and the business into 2017.”
The print specialists have around 90 staff across its four sites as well as 2,740 sqm space with lye being the biggest manufacturing site with 1,200sqm.
For more information on Customark Limited, visit online at: http://www.customark.co.uk/