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Founded in 1978, Domino Printing Sciences has established a global reputation for the development and manufacture of coding, marking and printing technologies, as well as its worldwide aftermarket products and customer service.

Domino’s Digital Printing Solutions division serves the commercial printing sector providing digital inkjet printers and control systems, which deliver solutions for a complete range of labelling and variable data printing applications.

The Domino Group employs more than 2,800 people and operates in over 120 countries. The company has manufacturing facilities in the UK, US, China, Germany, India, Sweden and Switzerland.

Domino’s continued growth is underpinned by an unrivalled commitment to product development. In 2017, Domino Printing Sciences was honoured with its sixth Queen’s Award – the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance. This latest accolade is for the innovation of our A-Series i-Tech range of industrial continuous inkjet printers. Prior Queen’s Awards recognised Domino’s technological expertise, excellence in export and international trade.

In the MX Manufacturer Awards 2018 - a contest co-organised by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers - Domino won the Operational Excellence Award and was shortlisted in the People & Skills category. Domino won the scheme’s Supply Chain Excellence award in 2017.

In 2016, Domino’s 7-colour N610i digital inkjet label press won the European Digital Press Association’s award for Best Label Printer category.

The same year, Domino’s Cambridge site won the Best Electronics and Electrical Plant award in Cranfield University’s annual factories award scheme.

Domino’s membership of professional bodies

Domino Printing Sciences’ Global Account Director - Multi-National Accounts & OEMs Tim Paul became Chairman of the UK’s Processing & Packaging Machinery Trade Association (PPMA) in December 2018. Domino is also a long-standing member of the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PPMI) based in the US.

Our membership of the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing gives our teams access to the institution’s world-leading research facilities, as well as access to its insight into materials, inks and technology.

As a member of the European Printing Inks Association (EuPIA) since 2008, Domino has contributed to its working groups. Domino also provided expertise in the formulation of its Good Manufacturing Practices: Printing Inks for Food Contact Materials.

Similarly, our membership of the UK Campden BRI gives Domino access to the scientific, technical and advisory services needed to ensure product safety and quality, process efficiency and product and process innovation.

Domino is a member of GS1 – the association that underpins global standards for business communication through its data management of the unique numbers used in barcodes.

As such, GS1 partners our delivery of globally-compliant barcoding solutions.

Domino’s Digital Printing Solutions division is a member of FINAT, the European association for the self-adhesive label industry, TLMI, the US-based label and package printing industry association along with several other European national label printing associations.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Ethics

Domino endeavours to uphold best practice in the workplace by regularly reviewing health and safety, maintaining high employment standards and engaging our diverse workforce.

Domino's policy is to comply with all competition and trade regulation laws, promote ethical behaviour throughout our value chain and treat all suppliers and subcontractors fairly and honestly under clear terms of engagement.

Domino currently meets the Silver standard of EcoVadis’ 21 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) indicators for reducing risk, driving innovation and fostering transparency and trust with our trading partners. The EcoVadis pillars by which Domino standards are measured are Sustainable Procurement, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics and Environment. Domino’s scores are above average in each category.

Similarly, as a Grade B member of Sedex’s (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) Manufacture of Machinery and Equipment category, Domino drives supply chain improvements from several global sites. Domino’s processes are subject to the organisation’s regular independent ethical audits.

Domino not only values its local neighbours, but communities internationally too.

In 2017, Domino established a worldwide employee-participation programme to support the endeavours of SOS Children's Villages International. Its beneficiary was the Bhimtal Family Strengthening Programme in India – providing nutritional, educational and health support as well as vocational training, career counselling sessions and job placement support.

In the UK, Domino supports educational programmes in STEM subjects to school age pupils.

The 2017 installation of a Combined Heat and Power Unit at Domino’s Cambridge HQ is reducing the company’s CO2 footprint by over 22.8 tonnes annually. Similarly, sustainable lighting system will cut annual energy usage and CO2 emissions by 42,000kg.:

Accreditations

Domino's commitment to excellence is reflected by the ISO 9000 series of quality assurance accredited manufacturing plants in the UK, US and China as well as subsidiaries Spain, France and the Netherlands. Wiedenbach Apparatebau, a German Domino Group Company has also achieved ISO9001.

In addition to this, Domino's printer plant in China and fluid factories in the UK, China and the US have ISO14001 accreditation for environmental management and improvement. The accreditations were awarded as a result of continued achievements to reduce the plants’ electricity consumption without reducing production, and for cutting plant waste through recycling.

Domino Facts

Domino launched its first 4-colour N600i digital inkjet label press in 2012 operating at speeds of up to 75 metres a minute with a 600dpi native resolution. The next generation 7-colour N610i with Domino’s highly opaque white ink, orange and violet was introduced in 2014.

In 2018, 64 colleagues across the Bar Hill HQ and Liverpool sites had served 25 or more years with the company – which represents almost 8% of our UK workforce.

The technology and range of industrial printers and coders in the Domino Group portfolio includes continuous inkjet; scribing laser; fibre laser; Drop on Demand valve jet; Drop on Demand piezo; binary inkjet; thermal transfer overprinting; thermal inkjet and Print & Apply labelling.

Domino became an autonomous division within Brother Industries in 2015.

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