The digital, offset and wide-format house, based in Chipping Norton, NSW, signed for the device currently on display on the Esko stand at the Visual Impact Image Expo.
It marks the third Kongsberg table at the print firm. Esko general manager for Oceania, Peter Henderson said: “It is significant for a company to have expanded so rapidly to buy three tables.”
Sol Design managing director Robert Otto said: “We’re trying to cut out night shifts. When you run night shifts, you have no extra capacity. If we move to only day shifts, we can keep night shifts for emergencies.”
He said his company was very busy, adding that “price is not the criteria for our customers – they are only asking for speed and quality”.
Sol Design & Display produces 9,000sqm per month across its fleet, which includes two Fujifilm Acuity machines, one Océ Arizona, four Mutoh Blizzards and an Epson device.
Revenues were up 25% year-on-year to €84.9m ($118m). EBITDA was up 149% year-on-year to €17m, and also 42% higher than the results of the first half of 2008.
The company said that sales of the Kongsberg XP production tables had “exceeded expectations and exceed 2009 H1 results by close to 50%”.
Pictured (l-r): Peter Henderson, Robert Otto, Esko Artwork’s Carol Torkar, and Sol Design production manager David Garrod.
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