Technology

Benchwick Signs i4F Digital Printing Agreement

Monday, April 8, 2024

[Turnhout, Belgium] – i4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, announced that Benchwick has signed an i4F digital printing technologies license. The agreement covers Benchwick’s decorative panels which are digitally printed and digitally embossed using a Hopetech digital printing line.

The extent and broad scope of i4F’s digital printing technologies patent portfolio means an i4F license is essentially required for all direct-on-board digitally printed and digitally embossed floor and wall decorative products, irrespective of the printing line equipment used. This new agreement adds to Benchwick’s longstanding collaboration with i4F.

According to the company, i4F’s digital printing technologies cluster covers digital printing and digital embossing technologies that enhance embossed-in-register optics on decorative flooring and wall panels, in any material. i4F’s patent portfolio covers all relevant jurisdictions – including the U.S., China as well as Europe.

i4F’s CEO, John Rietveldt, commented, “We offer the biggest and best selection of digital printing technologies available today. We literally have the market covered. So much so, that if a decorative panel is digitally printed or digitally embossed direct-on-board then, it is our view, that a manufacturer automatically needs to join the i4F family as one of our valued licensees.”