Mimaki maps out expansion plans with new facilities

As part of its move to address a growing global demand for digital print technologies, Mimaki has opened a number of new testing and laboratory facilities at its headquarters in Nagano in Japan, which include a Textile/Apparel Lab Centre and Industrial Product Lab Centre. Also, the company has also established a new JP Demonstration Centre in Tokyo. The Tokyo facility will run alongside the firm’s existing branch showroom in the city and show Mimaki technology for the sign and graphics, industrial product, and textile and apparel markets. The facility will also work with the new lab sites in Nagano to respond to customers’ needs and problems by taking a more specific approach, which will include various testing procedures and verification tasks.

The Industrial Product Lab Centre will also operate in a similar way, working to produce technology that satisfies market demand. Mimaki plans to open other sites in Shanghai, Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Germany, the Netherlands, North America and Brazil in due course. At the centre, the compatibility verification and evaluation between inks and materials can be conducted, as well as the verification of the optimum printing conditions when using genuine inks and genuine primers on customer-supplied substrates, together with the verification of printing processes to suit the individual special needs that customers may have, such that proposals can be made.