British manufacturer and designer Inca Digital Printers leaves its Japanese parent company Screen and joins the Agfa-Gevaert Group. Based in Cambridge, UK, Inca Digital Printers specializes in high-speed inkjet printing technologies for signage, display and packaging.
The acquisition includes Inca's existing portfolio of high-speed multi-pass printers such as the Oncet line, but also a newly designed line of single-pass printers for packaging applications and a custom inline print engine developed in collaboration with corrugator manufacturer BHS Corrugated.
This is an important step for Agfa. With this acquisition, Agfa focuses its large format digital printing business on the packaging market. "Digital printing is a profitable growth engine for the group with enormous potential that will be further accelerated by the addition of Inca." says Pascal Juéry, President and CEO of the Agfa-Gevaert Group.
Vincent Wille, president of Agfa's Digital Print & Chemicals division, adds: "This investment leverages and strengthens our position in the high-end, high-production wide-format market as a whole, and specifically in the promising packaging segment."
For Stephen Tunnicliffe-Wilson, CEO of Inca Digital Printers, the integration of his company into the Belgian group will allow it to become "one of the world's leading manufacturers of digital packaging presses" .
