Inkjet Ink Manufacturing

Manufacturing Inks For Performance & Reliability

Thursday 30 - Friday 31 January 2020

Hotel Ilunion Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

COURSE FOCUS

This course is designed for those wishing to develop or source inkjet inks, or interested in commissioning their development and manufacture. It will help you understand the issues of development and testing, scale-up for manufacture and the manufacturing processes themselves, as well as covering the potential business models for an ink formulation or manufacturing company. As well as being of interest to inkjet technologists, managers will benefit from an understanding of the inkjet ink manufacturing process to set realistic project and revenue plans and decide whether to develop and manufacture in-house or source externally.

COURSE OUTLINE

COURSE LEADERS

John Tardrew, R&D Inkjet Technologist
Screen GP IJC, UK

John has over a decade of inkjet ink development experience, with extensive knowledge of the full ink development process from formulation design for specific applications through to full scale commercial production. His expertise is the integration of complete printing solutions, bringing together engineering, electronics, software and chemistry in order to tackle the complex challenges of cutting edge inkjet innovation. After graduating from the University of Bristol with a MSci in Chemical Physics he began his inkjet career as a development chemist at Domino Printing Sciences. More recently he worked at Xennia Technology (now part of Sensient) for 6 years as an ink and systems developer and project manager before joining Screen GP IJC Ltd in 2017 as a R&D Inkjet Technologist.

Dr Tim Phillips, Founder & Director
Catenary Solutions, UK

Tim Phillips has extensive experience in challenging inkjet integration projects, spending eight years working at Xennia Technology Ltd, the leading inkjet solutions company that was acquired by Sensient in 2015. This involved working with a wide range of companies developing technology for new applications including textiles, ceramics, packaging, décor and functional material deposition for printed electronics and biomedical uses. Tim founded Catenary Solutions in 2015 to bring this knowledge of digital solution development and marketing to a wider audience. Tim has also presented IMI Europe courses in the past including the Inkjet Academy and Inkjet Ink Manufacturing & Digital Textile Printing courses.

Tim graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MA Honours degree in Natural Sciences, and completed his PhD in liquid crystal physics and chemistry at the University of Bristol. More recently he studied for an Executive MBA at the University of Warwick.

To find out more on this topic check out the following presentation:

Dr Simon Daplyn of Sensient Imaging Technologies - Ink testing for industrial printers