Following Resolute’s move to purpose-built premises in March 2024, the company has grown at such a speed that it requires significantly more space than anticipated, according to Colin Marsh, the firm’s managing director.
The company’s main 930sqm facility is currently undergoing further building work – originally slated for 2025 – to add a further 930sqm first floor; even with this expansion, the company needed further space to carry out its R&D work, Marsh told Printweek.
“We had expansion plans for years one and two after we moved in – but we greatly underestimated our rate of growth,” he explained.
“That came so soon that we had no room for R&D, which is a very important part of our business: so we’ve acquired two new units opposite [the new site], which is very convenient.”
Moving into the units at the end of November, Resolute will immediately get to work on a mystery machine that will be able to print both on textiles and more traditional substrates, slated for launch in Q1 2025.
“Obviously we can’t have people looking at it while it’s in development – but it’s due to launch next February,” he said.
“It’s aimed at commercial printers, not specifically textile printers or screen printers, but they will be interested. Essentially, it will make it a whole lot easier for commercial printers to diversify while coping with the work they’re doing already, which might be sheetfed or web, and the same equipment can cope with textiles as well.”
Resolute’s current lineup of machinery is predominantly geared towards higher production DTF transfer printers that can also print onto large format aqueous [ink] media as well, like posters and labels.
The firm’s focus is on enabling printers to join the dots between different verticals, Marsh added.
“The cutting equipment that goes with [the machines] goes hand-in-hand, so you can produce variable data labels on your DTF machine, rather than buy another expensive digital press to do it – we’re talking for short runs, rather than thousands of sheets.
“We’re upscaling in that area, so we’ll go bigger and faster to allow people to print variable data packages.”
Resolute employs 27 at its site in Clay Cross, south of Chesterfield.
