A Cambridge-based maker of industrial coding and marking printers, inks and lasers that print dates and codes on packaging, founded in 1978 and now part of Japan's Brother Group.
Domino makes the machines that print the dates, batch codes and barcodes you see on food, drink, medicine and other packaged goods. Its range includes continuous inkjet, thermal inkjet, piezo drop-on-demand printers, thermal transfer overprinting, print-and-apply machines, CO2 and fibre lasers, vision and control systems and software. A separate Digital Printing Solutions division supplies digital presses for labels and corrugated packaging and inkjet printers for variable data. The company says its expertise helps customers meet rules, cut waste, reduce errors and protect brands and consumers.
Graeme Minto, a former project leader at Cambridge Consultants, founded Domino in 1978 to exploit continuous inkjet technology. The first printer, Unijet, appeared in 1979. A 1980 European rule on best-before and use-by dates created a large market, especially for food and drink. The company shipped its 1,000th printer in 1984, listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1985, moved to a new headquarters a few miles from Cambridge in 1989 and has won six Queen's Awards, including one for innovation in 2017 for its A-Series i-Tech range. Since 2015 it has been an autonomous division of the Brother Group.
Domino's site has no formal mission statement on the history page we read; it links to a "What We Believe" page that we could not open. The 2018 fortieth-anniversary release describes a "Do More" ethos. Then-chief executive Nigel Bond said: "We are extremely proud that 43% of our team have worked for Domino for more than ten years." That is the company speaking about itself, but a long-serving team is a useful signal of how people feel about working there.
The UK head office is Domino UK Ltd, Trafalgar Way, Bar Hill, Cambridge CB23 8TU. The 2018 release says the Bar Hill headquarters employed 850 people and that the A-Series printers were designed and built there. In July 2018 Domino also opened a 172,000 square foot fluids (ink) facility in Liverpool, the centre of its fluids business for 35 years. Globally the company says it has more than 3,000 employees, 29 subsidiary offices, over 200 distributors and manufacturing in seven countries, and sells in more than 120 countries.
A business that designs and builds its own machines employs a wide range of people: mechanical, electronic and software engineers, chemists who develop inks, production and test staff, service engineers, sales teams and finance and IT. The 2018 article also mentions an apprenticeship scheme, which shows the company has long trained people on site. Bar Hill is close to Cambridge's technology cluster, so the area has many related employers. See Domino's UK site for current roles.
Website: www.domino-printing.com
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