Direct Textiles & Luggage (DTB) has purchased digitally printed textiles provider ARC Textiles, in an effort to bolster its digital product providing and buyer base.
Finishing the acquisition on 1 November, the garment and bag supplier-decorator additionally introduced on board ARC Textiles’ managing director and founder Alan Chidgey, alongside 5 employees.
Clive Allcott, industrial director of DTB, mentioned ARC, which specialises in dye sublimation printed towels and blankets, had lengthy been a strategic provider for the agency.
The prevailing synergies between the 2 corporations’ merchandise and employees would solely improve their potential to serve their prospects, he mentioned, including: “Our two corporations have shared an in depth relationship for a few years and can mix their merchandise to carry the perfect of those to the business.”
DTB’s gross sales director, Mark Somerfield, added: “I believe it’s a pure development for us.
“We have been concerned within the digital dye-sublimation marketplace for a lot of years, with out correctly placing our toe within the water. So it is a pure development for the enterprise.”
DTB’s prior digital capabilities included direct-to-garment (DTG), direct-to-film (DTF) and a large-volume digital switch system, known as TST Switch Know-how, which prints onto paper reasonably than movie earlier than being transferred.
Chidgey, put in as digital gross sales supervisor on 7 November, will head up DTB’s digital enlargement.
He instructed Printweek: “The sale was one thing that we have now been engaged on collectively for fairly a while […] We’re engaged on a variety of switch merchandise, dye-sublimation merchandise, thinks like towels, blankets, t-shirts – merchandise you’ll be able to digitally print at full color, edge to edge.
“It’s simply nice. It has an enormous quantity of potential going ahead, and I’m very excited.”