Each press is custom built enabling the printer to select the print circumference, web width and folder to meet their own individual requirements and minimise excess trim waste.
The new Timson T-Flex series use a flexographic process designed to print flexible packaging with water based or UV (cationic or free radical) inks.
The event was a triple celebration marking the opening of a new 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) high bay press assembly shop, and receiving the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for outstanding achievement in innovation.
Timsons also has its own Training School and prides itself in providing Mechanical and Electrical Engineering apprenticeships for approximately 6 people each year.
The current managing director, Jeff Ward, joined the company as an apprentice in 1979 and was appointed to MD after the retirement of Peter Brown (son-in-law of Ernest Timson) in 2007.