Press production and assembly is already underway at the new $17.3m, 20,000sq m facility.
Ryobi believes the expansion will result in increased availability of all Ryobi offset presses which service the short run, high quality colour market worldwide.
While the US is Ryobi’s largest press market the company says it has increased the size of its printing press manufacturing capacity in response to growing demand for printing presses in the Asia, Europe and the Pacific as well.
Its new facility, it says, will further strengthen the company’s supply chain to printers worldwide.
The Ryobi press manufacturing centre expansion comes amid a steadily rising economy in Japan. The Japanese government said it ended its most recent fiscal year with the strongest annual economic growth rate since 1991, and is on track for its longest expansion since the 1940s. Business investment in Japan has remained strong for the third consecutive year.
