Glenn Hylands has joined Pureprint as group operations director as the company continues on its path of bringing parts of the group together in a single production environment.
Hylands joined from CPI Books where he was general manager of its Eastbourne digital print on demand operation. This provides the background and experience that will be put to good use in bringing Ashford Colour Press, where there is substantial continuous feed inkjet capacity based on HP, in closer alignment with the Uckfield operations where Pureprint houses much of its HP Indigo fleet.
His role will be group one rather than a job tied closely to the Ashford site in Gosport.
He says: “I’m delighted to be joining Pureprint. The business has an impressive reputation for quality and innovation, and the opportunity to contribute to its next stage of evolution is genuinely exciting.”
His follows a number of appointments to group role this year as the company works to create a single face to customer where appropriate. Helen Graham has joined as head of group bids while Andy Lydiatt, with extensive data management expertise, has joined as director of strategic growth.
Pureprint CEO Mark Handford says: “We’re delighted to welcome Glenn to the Pureprint team. His depth of experience in inkjet manufacturing and the publishing sector is a fantastic addition, particularly following our acquisition of Ashford Colour last year. Bringing our manufacturing sites closer together is a key focus for the year ahead, and Glenn will play an important role in driving that.”
He joined the company less than two weeks ago and will be in place to supervise the creation of a specialist short run unit at Ashford Colour Press based around two Indigo 7900s which are being moved from Uckfield where Indigo 7Ks will replace them and the two Indigo 100Ks on site are upgraded to 120K status and joined by a new Indigo 18K.
The concept is that Uckfield and Gosport will operate as mirror sites for short run book printing, with jobs being routed to whichever is the factory with the best loading.
