Staff Writer June 16, 2022 Business, Headlines
This Fujifilm rendering released in March shows what the New Castle facility is expected to look like.
Fujifilm on Thursday opened the first of two new manufacturing plants that will produce printer inks.
The New Castle site is Fujifilm Imaging Colorants Inc.’s first dispersion manufacturing facility in the U.S. Its $19 million investment will create more than 21 new professional, managerial, engineering and skilled labor jobs.
The 8,100-square-foot facility includes manufacturing and process control equipment is in addition to the current 40,000 square feet of occupied manufacturing space at the site, which employs 90 people.
“It’s an exciting day for Fujifilm,” said Ian Wilkinson, president and chief operating officer of Fujifilm’s Imaging Colorants Inc. “I am proud that we have been able to deliver this brand-new production facility according to our original plan, despite the challenges that the pandemic presented us with, and we’re here to celebrate that today. ”
Fujifilm’s high purity reactive dispersant pigment dispersion products are important to the development of aqueous inkjet inks for a variety of fast-growing inkjet markets, including packaging, textile, and commercial printing, a press release said.
They use a proprietary cross-linking technology to lock each pigment particle in a secure polymer cage, resulting in a highly stable dispersion that enables the design of ink formulations that can meet demanding performance requirements, the release said.
Fujifilm supplies aqueous inks to digital printer Original Equipment Manufacturers and RxD pigment dispersions to ink formulators.
A second facility, which will add 11,000 square feet of operational space to overall site is being built and is expected to be operational by summer 2023.
When both facilities are running, the two plants will double Fujifilm’s production capacity of pigment dispersions in the U.S. to meet the fast-growing demand for inkjet printing globally.
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He was a tonic in human form – a stimulant for all who had the pleasure of his company. That’s how Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist George Will described the late Pierre “Pete” du Pont Friday. Hundreds gathered at the Playhouse on Rodney Square in the Hotel duPont for a celebration of life service nearly a year after the former governor’s passing. In addition to Will, a panel of speakers included Gov. John Carney, du Pont’s wife Elise, and their four children, Elise, Pierre, Ben and Thère. du Pont’s children remembered him as a man of integrity, patience and wit, on one hand, larger than life and on the other, deeply personal and involved in their upbringing. Carney credited du Pont with turning Delaware around when it needed a strong leader the most. “When Pete took office, the state was a mess,” Carney said. “There was a huge budget deficit, the state’s credit rating was the lowest in the country, the Farmer’s Bank with all the state’s revenue deposited there was on the brink of insolvency, our personal tax rate was the highest in the country, and we had a reputation of being bad for business.” That would all change under du Pont’s leadership, Carney said. He pulled Delaware out of economic crisis, instilled fiscal discipline, created the “rainy day fund,” attracted the banking industry and restored confidence in state government. “Most importantly,” the governor concluded, “he set a new standard for how we treat each other in this state. Some call it the Delaware Way, others call it the Return Day ethic. Whatever you call it, it just means working together to get things done.” In 1968, du Pont was elected to the General Assembly to represent Christiana Hundred. Two years later, the moderate Republican was elected to Delaware’s lone U.S. House seat. He served three terms in Congress before returning to state politics to run for governor in 1976, an election he would win. He remained in the governor’s office for two terms from 1977 to 1985, where he earned the dichotomous reputation of both a groundshaker and a peacemaker. Photo courtesy of the Pete du Pont Freedom Foundation. “Pete was a politician with an engineer’s mentality – an interesting combination,” Will remarked. “His Princeton degree was in mechanical engineering, which means that he, unlike a majority of politicians, was intellectually inoculated against the abiding political sin of indifference to facts and practicalities. “Politicians can promise this and that but a politician with an engineer’s mind is necessarily a realist,” he continued. “He knows that if calculations are not made correctly and respected, bridges buckle and dams collapse. But to say that Pete was a realist is not to say that he was tethered to a grim realism – there was nothing grim about Pete.” du Pont, alongside then-U.S. Senator Joe Biden, sought the presidency in 1988. His unique “Damn Right” platform featured controversial proposals, including the phasing out of Social Security in favor of private savings plans, replacing welfare with work, making driver’s licenses conditional on passing random drug tests, and phasing out government subsidies for farmers. He dropped out of the race after placing last in the New Hampshire primary election. Will said of du Pont as a presidential candidate, he had “the least substance-to-blather ratio of anyone running for president.” In 1988, Will said, the Republican nominating electorate, “not for the first time and, lord knows, not for the last time, failed to recognize the most talented candidate.” “In today’s acid rain of political acrimony,” he concluded, “it is well to remember the politics in the United States can be, has been, and actually it always should be, fun.”
Highlands Elementary School in Wilmington will officially be known as Joseph E. Johnson Jr. Elementary school after a Monday ceremony that will honor a Delaware barrier breaker, civil rights champion and superintendent. Johnson, a lifelong educator and Wilmington native, was a civil rights champion who made Delaware history in 1968 by becoming the state’s first Black principal of a non-segregated educational institution, P.S. Dupont High School, in Wilmington. In August 1963, Johnson was one of the protesters in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom before serving as an officer in the United States Army Surface to Air Missile program for two years. In 1981, he took the position as Red Clay’s first superintendent, serving for nine years until he retired in 1990. He was a science teacher, school leader and personnel director before that. Johnson died in 2020 at the age of 85. In fall 2021, his family, students and members of the Red Clay community persuaded the district’s school board to approve the school renaming. Red Clay Superintendent Dorrell Green said in a press release that district and state schools are better because of Johnson’s legacy of educational equity for all. “Dr. Johnson was a bridge builder who kept children at the center of the work as he led during some of the most difficult times in the history of public education in Wilmington,” Green said. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Superintendent Dorrell Green, the Johnson family and others will be speaking at the 10 a.m. ceremony.
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