New customer demo and training center with more equipment and
additional dedicated staff is highlight of the facility
Esko has celebrated its renovated
Esko Innovation Center in Miamisburg, OH with an open house attended by local
township officials and the Esko North America leadership team. Expanded demo
and training facility dedicated to customers is the expansion highpoint
Esko North America moved to its
current site in Miamisburg in June 2010, to handle the requirements for a staff
of approximately 260 in North America and 80 in Miamisburg. The facility houses
the company’s software support group, customer training and demo centers,
marketing and business development, human resources, and finance and
administration. Esko has another office in the US in Ludlow, MA serving mostly
of software development.
The new Esko Innovation Center has
been expanded 16% in size to 33,580 square feet, well more than half the size
of a football field. Nearly $1 million has been invested both in office
refurbishments as well as investment in a complete complement of demo hardware
and software solutions.
The focal point of the facility is
the demo and training center, encompassing separate demo areas for both
software and for hardware. In the process, three new full-time jobs have been
added to support the center- one for the software demo area and two for the
hardware center.
The Esko Innovation Center is a
hot spot to demonstrate new ideas and solutions, experiment with new processes,
and produce samples for packaging, wide format and commercial print. Added to
the inventory accessible in the demo room is a complete representation of
Kongsberg cutting tables, including the super-wide Kongsberg C. These tables
are typically used to produce packaging prototypes as well as short production
runs of displays and packaging. Also on site are This is CDI imaging devices
used to create digital flexo plates, and software that is used by brand owners
and printers to develop a wide range of packaging and display materials.
“Esko on a yearly basis schedules
a full calendar of visits from our customers—brand owners, designers, service
companies and printers, offering enhanced and updated training, meeting and
state-of-the-art demonstration areas. Our facility is complete with all the
software and hardware needed to replicate any workflow environment that
‘smartly’ mirrors how our customers’ businesses operate. It allows them to
experiment to see how new solutions might improve their productivity and print
quality,” explains Jon Giardina, President, Esko Americas. “The process of
building our new demo facility took months of careful planning. We are very
proud of the result, and how effectively our staff will be able to work with
our customers in what we believe is an exceptional showplace for the direction
of graphics communication and packaging. I personally invite everyone to visit
us.”
