EFI has established an industry-leading presence in high-growth inkjet textile printing with the strategic acquisition of Reggiani Macchine. Based in Bergamo, Italy, Reggiani is a leading technology provider with an extensive lineup of industrial inkjet printers utilising water-based inks in printing on fabric. This sector has recently been identified as the industry's most exciting growth application by a new, global survey from industry association FESPA and analyst firm InfoTrends.
Reggiani's inkjet technologies, which will be rebranded as EFI Reggiani, address the full scope of advanced textile printing, with versatile printers suitable for water-based dispersed, acid, pigment and reactive dye printing inks. In its 60+ year history, Reggiani has become a leading innovator of a full range of industrial solutions for textile manufacturing, including high-quality printers for fashion and home furnishing textiles, with a comprehensive portfolio spanning the company's original rotary screen technologies to the most advanced inkjet textile printers and inks in the industry.
Reggiani has also established relationships with many of the leading textile manufacturing companies around the world and provides an integrated offering including equipment for all stages of the textile printing process, centered around its leading digital inkjet textile printers.
"This acquisition gives EFI an immediate leadership position in one of the world's largest industries undergoing the transformation from analogue printing to digital. The textile printing market is just beginning that transition, which will enable manufacturers to shift from long-run to on-demand manufacturing, responding to the increasing demands of short runs and customisations," said EFI CEO Guy Gecht. "The addition of Reggiani's innovative team and their 'Made in Italy' textile printing technology, which is renowned worldwide, will drive continued growth in industrial textile, and also enable EFI's customers to expand into soft signage-based display graphics using Reggiani's water-based industrial inkjet printers."
EFI has also acquired Matan Digital Printers, an award-winning provider of innovative technologies for superwide-format display graphics and other industrial printing applications. Matan's focus on roll-to-roll workflow has resulted in one of the industry's strongest offerings of material-handling features such as in-line cutting and slitting.
"This acquisition gives EFI an even broader range of products to help our customers capture important opportunities in superwide-format display graphics printing," said EFI CEO Guy Gecht. "Matan's strong R&D capability will further accelerate EFI's inkjet innovation, while filling a key spot in EFI's portfolio for a lower-acquisition cost line of roll-to-roll production printers focused on signage, banners, billboards and fleet graphics."