Images Magazine November 18

YES has taken on an apprentice, 16-year-old Matthew Brown, who will be working with instructors at the company to learn the skills and knowledge he needs to excel at technical engineering. He joined YES just a couple of months after 21-year- old Ryan Lee-Storey was taken on as a junior technician. Roy Burton, managing director, said: “We are very excited to be investing in the exciting new training programme. A lot of the workforce in the textile industry have retired and as a result, skills have been lost. We are trying to prevent a further loss by recruiting young staff into our company, allowing them to grow into highly- skilled technicians able to install, train and service our customers of tomorrow.“ The company intends to take on one or two apprentices each year, and will guide them through a training cycle of five to seven years. www.yesltd.co.uk Zünd UK has appointed Dean Ashworth to the role of sales and marketing manager. He‘ll be responsible for driving and supporting sales of the Zünd range to existing and potential customers throughout the UK. He joins from Morgan Advanced Materials, where he was commercial manger. www.zund.com William Barras has joined Stocks Embroidery Solutions, distributor for ZSK machinery, as a sales representative. He joined in July, and attended ZSK‘s recent Open House Messe, about which he said: “It is incredible to see how passionate the team at ZSK are about bringing the next best thing to the industry.“ www.stocks.co.uk Software company SA International has promoted Michelle Johnson to director of worldwide marketing. Previously marketing manager at the company, Michelle will lead the development and continued expansion of the SAI brand and proposition. Kathy Nguyen has been named as marketing manager, while Annette Plummer will be working in a new role on the company‘s Flexi Solution, and Marina Musatova joins SAI’s European office as international marketing coordinator. www.ThinkSAi.com CHANGING FACES [L-R] Matthew Brown and Ryan Lee-Storey have joined YES [L-R]William Barras and Julius Sobizack, CEO of ZSK Michelle Johnson Dean Ashworth Dae Ha UK appoints new distributor Dae Ha UK has appointed a new UK distributor. Digital Transfer Supplies (DTS), which began supplying Dae Ha Cad Cut products in September. It has 80% of the Cad Cut colours currently available on its website, with the remaining colours and digital films to be added soon. Michael Overy, managing director of Dae Ha UK, said: “The guys at DTS are leaders in the distribution and customer service of transfer/sublimation papers. With the introduction of our holographic and metallic films (and glitter soon) that are suitable for sublimation, DTS can offer the most sound advice in the market for using sublimation papers with our films.” He continued: “We’re nearly five years on from entering the UK market, having brought an unknown name to UK textile decorators in what is an established and busy arena. Growing the Dae Ha brand remains a key objective and with the guys at DTS coming on board, the exposure for Dae Ha UK grows exponentially not just in the UK, but to DTS’s many customers and website visitors from overseas. We’re now looking to repeat our UK success overseas, and this exposure will help fuel our growth plans.” Roger Jenks of DTS added: “Dae Ha is really good quality and a really good price, and it’s helping us to sell other equipment such as the Silhouette Cameo and the Graphtec cutter/ plotters. It’s early days, but it looks promising.” www.garmentfilms.co.uk www.forevertransferpaper.com Digital Transfer Supplies is now supplying Dae Ha products in the UK INDUSTRY NEWS www.images-magazine.com 18 images NOVEMBER 2018