Kernow Coatings Enters Partnership with OKI Europe and Baker Materials

Kernow Coatings, a global supplier of OEM-certified printable digital plastics, has entered into a strategic partnership with OKI Europe and Baker Materials to address the fast-growing digital label market.

According to Kernow, “Kernow Coatings’ range of synthetic, durable media delivers outstanding results on OKI printers and meets the high-quality requirements in sectors such as beauty and cosmetics. Baker Materials offers a wide range of finished materials and media in ready-to-print formats approved for OKI. Kernow thus enables a wide range of labels to be printed in-house and on demand. For example, plant labels, beverage bottles, cans, and much more.”

Kernow Coatings

Kernow Coatings is a developer and manufacturer of synthetic laser printable label materials and synthetic, digitally printed media. Kernow Coatings utilizes development laboratories, pilot coating facilities, and flexible coating and laminating equipment that enable the development and supply of both standard and custom-label materials.

OKI Europe

OKI Europe is part of the printer division of OKI Electric, a global business-to-business brand and specializing in digital LED printer technology.

“As a part of OKI’s continued expansion providing solutions for printing labels in-house, we are seeing an increased demand for specialist media requirements, particularly in the area of durability,” states Rob Brown, OKI Europe, EMEA Head of Business Development, Pro Series. “The range of synthetic, durable media from Kernow Coatings provides outstanding results on OKI printing machines and is the perfect match to suit these high-quality application requirements that customers demand, ranging from beauty and cosmetics, through plant tags to beer bottles and a whole host more, giving businesses the ability to print a huge range of labels in-house and on-demand.”

He continues, “Recognising how important it is to source media in a ‘ready to print’ format, quickly and easily, Baker Materials are now holding stock of the Kernow materials approved to run on the OKI Pro10 series. Using their extensive experience and first-class facilities, Bakers are able to offer conversion into a wide range of finished stocks ready to run on the OKI Pro10xx roll-to-roll label printer”.

Baker Materials

A division of Baker Labels, Baker Materials is an independent converter and distributor of self-adhesive & non-self-adhesive label materials based in the U.K. According to Baker Materials, they are a family business with a family ethos at the center of how they operate.