SPGPrints
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Summary

SPGPrints supplies the rotary screens, engraving equipment, and printing machines behind most industrial fabric printing, plus digital textile printers and inks. Its screens and machines are the technology that prints most designer quilting cotton.

Key Facts

  • Type: company (machine and consumables builder); private
  • Status: Active
  • Location: Boxmeer, Netherlands (factory and digital-ink production); Kufstein, Austria (digital printer manufacturing); customers in more than 100 countries
  • Value-chain position: Machine builder and consumables supplier (printing)
  • Ownership: Investcorp agreed to buy the group from Bencis Capital Partners at an enterprise value of €240 million (PrintWeek; date not stated, 2013 revenue €214 million, so around 2014–2015). Current ownership not confirmed.
  • Patents: over 300 (company claim); digital ink factory founded 2011, doubled 2017
  • Former name: Stork (Stork Prints)

What It Is / How It Works

The company began as a 400 m² dairy-equipment factory in Boxmeer, a subsidiary of Gebr. Stork & Co’s Apparatenfabriek, then entered textile printing with a flat-bed machine. It says it invented rotary screen printing in 1963 and launched the first digital textile printer in 1991 (shown at ITMA 1991). Product lines include rotary screens and engraving, digital printers (JAVELIN), inks, and Rotary Screen Integration systems. In a 2020 vendor post it said digital was under 10% of printed textiles and that rotary stays cheaper at volume.

Notable Developments

  • 2017: Digital ink facility in Boxmeer doubled.
  • 2011: Own digital ink factory founded.
  • 1991: First digital textile printer launched (company claim).
  • 1963: Rotary screen printing invented (company claim).

Claim Verification

Claim: Invented rotary screen printing (1963) and first digital textile printer (1991)

Status: Unverified

Supporting sources:

Refuting / questioning sources:

  • None found; no independent history was located. The company’s current owner and HQ are not stated on its own site.

Summary: Company history claims only.

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