nesses to make sure there’s no wastage in that production point of view, and buying more and more products that are made from recycled materials. The company also encourages its own customers not to over-specify in weight as this is a great way of immediately halving or quartering the products they’re using. “We’ve tried to make it part of the culture like encouraging people to bring their Amazon boxes in so we can use them to recycle right the way through to the products that we’re printing on and the inks that we’re using because that’s another thing of course,” Clasper adds. With so much going on and so much evolving and growing in such a short space of time, we were keen to find out what FaberExposize has in store for the rest of the year and the answer seems to be to take stock of where the company has got to and assess the best way to be as efficient as possible moving forwards. A factory full of such impressive kit would allude to a company not afraid to invest where needed to boost production further and this enthusiasm for investing by Clasper is something the finance department is trying (in vain) to reign in. Instead, the managing director has put the wheels in motion to rent the unit next door! For the months to come, Clasper says: “For us, it’s very much a case of bedding down the clients that we’ve onboarded recently. We’ve had a really good couple of years of growth so we want to be really sure that everyone in the business and the building and everything is able to build on that foundation.” Shaking Things Up Ensuring the company has a strong and experienced team at its helm, Claire Taylforth has recently been appointed operations director of FaberExposize UK. Taylforth joined the business in 2014 when it was known as Northern Flags. Having been with the company for nine years, Taylforth has also witnessed the industry shift and change with the biggest being the move to production in-house. Following her promotion to the new role, Taylforth says she is looking forward to playing a key role in the company’s expansion plans moving forward. With such a huge capacity due to the range of kit the company has invested in, Taylforth explains that the only real bottleneck FaberExposize is experiencing now is in its administration and automation. To address this, something Taylforth has been focusing on in recent months is the implementation of a whole new MIS system, CRM system, and accounting package which will enable the company to work more efficiently. Taylforth explains: “I’ve been heavily involved in a new MIS system as we’re changing all of our systems internally that I’ve been working on for about four months now. We’re fast tracking it, and we’re hopefully about to go live on the first phase of the project in the next couple of months with some of our key clients. “So that would be automating right from order, quote, processing the order in admin through to studio and automating the proofing so the artwork can drop in, we can tell the customer if it's print ready, and then it will feed straight through to our RIP software in production. “We’re working really hard to simplify it as much as possible, but also to make a lot of the smaller jobs and the repetitive jobs more efficient. It’s quite an exciting time for us really as this will change the way that everyone in the company works.” This implementation demonstrates how adaptable FaberExposize is as a company to change which was evident during Covid -19 with the company producing products that it has never produced before and learning on the go. “We’ve got the capacity and the kit so once we’re able to automate better we’ll be able to push a lot more jobs through quicker,” Taylforth adds. We look forward to seeing what the company continues to do – we’re sure we won’t be short of things to report! 26 Issue 249 - October / November 2023 www.signlink.co.uk ▼ A Zund G3 Cutter is just one of the pieces of kit housed at the company's Leeds HQ COMPANY SPOTLIGHT / FABEREXPOSIZE UK ▲ FaberExposize UK has both UV and dyesublimation capabilities
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