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Adelco has achieved the carbon neutral certificate marking a milestone in our commitment for sustainability

Adelco has launched their brand new Automated DTF Printing Line, claiming to be the fastest and most complete in the market!

Adelco Launch a brand new logo and branding across all digital and traditional chanels.  Check out this  blog for more information on the history of our brand:  https://www.adelco.co.uk/news/new-logo-and-branding

Adelco become the UK distributor for the OvalJet.  A high production Direct to Garment system with revolutionary speeds, print costs and ecommerce software. 

Completion of our new manufacturing facility in China, bringing on-line an assembly area three times larger than the previous facility.

This follows a previous expansion in January 2019 where our assembly area increased by 25%. However rapid growth in Global sales of our drying systems, Oval and Carousel textile presses meant that this was filled very quickly, and a further expansion was necessary to facilitate such strong growth.

Adelco launched the Cyclone automatic press at ITMA 19 in Barcelona.  This printing press offers pin point precision at high speeds.  Another great product from the Adelco team.

Three New Products launched at FESPA Berlin. They include a whole new dryer range called the Pro-cure, a new Matrix oval textile printing press and a High-speed digital Hybrid system that can be added to the Oval called the AD Hybrid Digital.  Sales for the new products went through the roof and manufacturing increased to 7 days a week.

Launched at FESPA 17, Adelco showcased the Dual and Digi-Cure dryer. The Dual is the most technically advanced, highest production and most energy efficient dryer on the market. The Digi-Cure, competitively priced and with all the Adelco knowhow to boot, this small conveyor dryer with high-pressure airflow and integrated exhaust and fan, completes our range beautifully. Our sales offices in the UK has doubled in size and our staff numbers have grown by over a half since 2016.

Launch of the Ecotex Plus dryer adds new exhaust and airflow features from the Duplex dryer to the Ecotex range and incorporates feed and take off exhaust – the first time this has been incorporated on a textile dryer as standard. Adelco take on additional factory space in the UK to increase warehousing, sales and service support. The company is privately owned and currently employs 61 staff in the UK and China.

Launch of new Duplex Dual Deck textile dryer for mass production curing, reducing floor space requirements with 6 meters of curing through a 3 meter oven. Adelco produce new and unique chain free pallet index on the Oval printer. Oval printer fitted with end pallet docking station for the Kornit Paradigm to enable seamless connection for digital and screen combination prints.

Launch of new triple pass roll to roll dryer for digital textile printing.

The launch of the new Ecotex dryer took the textile market by Storm with many unique features and unmatched curing ability whilst providing the most economical operating costs available with the gas fired models. Dryers are fully modular and available in Electric or gas fired versions. Sales triple in North America and Asia and steady growth achieved in Europe and Africa.

Adelco launched their Ellipse Oval automatic textile printer with the highest specification available and have produced machines for standard textile print applications as well as special models for printing socks with in line curing, Footwear panels for Nike and sheet products that incorporate automatic load and unload units. Proven reliability of registration accuracy from unique front and rear pallet location.

Adelco open a new manufacturing facility in Kunshan near Shanghai, China for production of their textile dryers, Oval Printers and quartz flash cure units. Factory expansions occurred in 2011 and doubled again in 2014. Adelco continue design and component source in the UK to ensure European quality standards.

Adelco visit Kornit digital to view the first prototype Digital Garment printer and become their first worldwide distributor. Kornit has since grown into a major corporation with Facilities opening in North America, Europe and South East Asia. 2015 Kornit float on the NASDAQ.

Machinery manufacture begins, producing screen printing equipment and conveyor dryers in the UK. Manufacturing continued to expand in the UK and Adelco Moved into new larger factory premises near London in 1990.

Adelco Screen Process were formed as a limited company as a manufacturer of stencilled screens and ancillary products.