Sault Ste. Marie news: Local business get over $100k for new equipment

A Sault Ste. Marie primarily based customized printing and embroidery enterprise was capable of purchase a half-million greenback piece of apparatus due to an funding from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Company (NOHFC).

SK Group is displaying off their new direct-to-garment (DTG) machine, a Kornit Storm HD6.

Firm officers known as the machine “the way forward for garment printing.”

The province offered greater than $112,000 for the acquisition of the brand new machine.

Sherry Berlinghoff is the president of SK Group and stated the funding was large for bringing within the new machine.

“NOHFC’s assist in us buying this machine has been phenomenal. With out it, it will have taken us so much longer to get to this spot,” stated Berlinghoff

“With the funding it’s actually pushed us to have the ability to get this transferring for the north method faster than we’d have been capable of do.”

The brand new DTG machine permits clients to submit a picture on-line and inside a minute, the system can have the intricate design on a shirt.

It additionally would not require the cost for separate colors, like conventional garment printing.

Sault-area MPP Ross Romano was available for the announcement, on behalf of Greg Rickford, the Minister chargeable for NOHFC.

He stated it was wonderful to see the brand new machine at work first hand.

“There’s solely 45 of those throughout the whole nation which I believe is fairly cool as properly,” stated Romano.

“This piece of know-how permits them to create a better variety of merchandise, actually customizing what individuals are in search of within the market.”

The brand new printer can also be eco-friendly and by making specialised orders faster, it frees up the older printers for bulk orders, which they excel at.

Berlinghoff additionally instructed CTV Information that the corporate was capable of rent 5 extra workers due to the machine.

With the opportunity of growth much more seemingly now, she stated that quantity might improve.