RBLI has purchased a Mutoh Zephyr digital printer and Zünd flatbed plotter in order to meet a new Department of Transport initiative to launch Tourist Gateway Signs for UK tourist destinations, part of an attempt to boost the UK tourist industry.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Transport have both worked with the sign manufacturing industry to develop new boundary signs, which incorporate full-colour photographic images digitally printed onto Rennicks Nikkalite Ultralite retro-reflective sheeting.

RBLI, which provides training, jobs, housing and welfare support for the armed forces community and vulnerable people, already produces signs for road and rail. The recent investment, however, will make the charity one of just four UK organisations that can produce the newly-styled Tourist Gateway Signs, adding a valuable and significant extra source of income.

“Not only does this investment mean we can produce the new Tourist Gateway Signs, it also enables us to further improve quality and shorten the length of time it takes to make our existing range of signs, reducing the cost to the organisation overall,” explains RBLI’s commercial manager, Robert James.

He adds: “Investing in the new technology is a quantum leap forward for RBLI’s social enterprise business.”

The extra income from these new projects will allow RBLI to plough more money back into the charity to further help the people it supports.
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