Mimaki has acquired Italy-based digital textile printers’ manufacturer La Meccanica Costruzione Tessili. Even though the amount for which Mimaki has bought La Meccanica is yet to be revealed, it has been noticed that La Meccanica had sales of approximately US $ 6.5 million in 2014 and around US $ 557,000 in capital on hand at the time of the deal.
“We are aiming to acquire the manufacturing know-how of digital print devices and brand power to give a boost to our existing products and improve our competitiveness in the textile inkjet printer industry in Europe and the world,” Mimaki said on expanding its reach in the European textile and apparel market.
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Mimaki is a Japanese manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting machines for the sign graphics, industrial product and textile & apparel markets. It specializes in producing innovative, high quality and high reliability products, based upon its aqueous, solvent, UV-curable and textile inkjet technology.
Recently only wide-format printer manufacturer EFI purchased Reggiani, an Italian digital inkjet textile printer manufacturer, and now Mimaki acquiring La Meccanica, will certainly help the Japanese manufacturer maintain its lead in the global market.
