Previously based at a small site in Daventry, the 16-staff business has moved 30 minutes away to Northampton, to share a 3,700sqm facility with flexible packaging firm, Eco Flexibles.
The businesses, which already work closely, identified the unit last year and together designed a purpose-built facility, with the move across beginning in October and completing in January this year.
With a bigger footprint and investment in new technology, the new facility offers efficiencies for both businesses with an optimised workflow for employees and has been designed with growth in mind.
Creation offers artwork, reprographics and plate production for label, folding carton, rigid and flexible packaging printers across the food and beverage, personal and homecare, horticulture and pharmaceutical markets.
Creation managing director Matt Francklow, who is also a director of separate firm Eco Flexibles, said: "With our team now in place and operating at full speed, our new headquarters marks an exciting new chapter in the story of Creation.”
“For us, it’s about agility and always being able to develop alongside the market. Printers are under pressure to deliver quality, speed to market and sustainability, so we pride ourselves on taking away common prepress pain points. Our cutting-edge facility allows us to do that in more ways and our team has hit the ground running,” he explained.
“Importantly, our new HQ gives us more room to grow and scale, and it’s like having a snapshot into the future of repro. Whether it’s implementing new tools and platforms in colour management and ink inventory optimisation, expanding our range of flexo plates and rotary screens, adding new production tools such as cutting machines or supplying printing services from our new facility, we’re looking ahead to what our customers will need in the future, not just today.”
Meanwhile, Eco Flexibles timed the move to coincide with a substantial investment in new technology including new slitting and laminating capabilities and primarily the installation of a Fujifilm Jet Press FP790 digital inkjet device designed for the flexible packaging market.
The business will now benefit from end-to-end support including in-house plate making for its flexo jobs.
