The 16,000sqm site, which was officially opened last Wednesday (18 July), will provide the Cambridge-headquartered commercial inkjet printing and industrial coding, marking and labelling equipment manufacturer with a significant increase in productivity and capacity and a reduction in lead times.

The expansion will also create 19 new jobs, bringing the total workforce at the factory to 88 over the next nine months.

The new site is five times larger than the company’s previous Liverpool site and the facility includes a manufacturing area, quality assurance labs, dedicated customer training and seminar facilities, administration offices and conference facilities, as well as a 10m-high warehousing space.

From here the finished products will be shipped directly to Domino’s customers, sales channels and more than 200 distributors worldwide.

The new facility will incorporate technology including inline mixing capability, palletisation systems, materials handling processes, automated filling lines with high-speed rotary filling heads, and robotic automated handling systems.

The building also possesses sustainability credentials ranging from roof-mounted photovoltaic cells that generate solar power, to drains that send rainwater and surface water into attenuation ponds for natural drainage or evaporation.

Domino chief executive Nigel Bond said: “Our new production facility is a further major investment for our company and follows the recent opening of our new factory in Shanghai serving the local market in China and the expansion of our HQ buildings in Cambridge.

“These collective investments demonstrate our confidence in the business, the robustness of the markets we serve and our ambition to grow our market share and provide our customers with the highest service levels possible.”

He added: “This new facility will accommodate the expansion of our fluids manufacturing capacity in line with growing demand, including a wider range of products and greater volumes.

“Not only will this meet our customers’ rapidly changing requirements, but also enable them to be even more responsive and competitive within their own marketplaces.

“Very importantly, this significant global investment underlines our ongoing commitment to a presence in Liverpool, continuing as the epicentre of our fluids business as it has for the last 35 years.”