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Established in 1988, Xeikon started digital full-color printing out of a former Agfa production site in Mortsel, near Antwerp, in Belgium. There it built the very first DCP-1 machine that was launched at Ipex 1993.
In 2002, Xeikon moved its headquarters – including R&D, manufacturing and innovation center – from Mortsel to a new building in Lier, Belgium. Since 2008, the company’s head office is based in Eede, the Netherlands.
Last year, Xeikon celebrated its 30th anniversary and 25 years of digital printing. Under the motto ‘PastPrintFuture’, it also got ready for a new future with Flint Group as its new owner, and inkjet technology as an added part of its broadened digital portfolio.
In 2018, it opened both an inkjet and a toner technology competence center in Lier to strengthen its R&D efforts and stay ahead at a technological level.
The transfer to Lier is a gradual process that started in January 2019. The main activities will be transferred by July 1, 2019, and at the end of the year, the Eede location will be closed.