It installed an AB Graphics Digicon 3000 digital inline finisher two weeks ago and an HP Indigo WS6800 around six weeks ago.

YRG Eclipse, simply called Eclipse until it was bought by Yorkshire Repro-Graphic Group (YRG) four years ago, secured the £2m loan from Yorkshire Bank’s North Yorkshire Customer Banking Centre.

The funds also supported its relocation from premises in Hull to Cottingham, East Yorkshire in late May.

YRG Eclipse technical sales manager Neil Little said: “The old place was very decrepit, when YRG bought us four years ago they always said we would move.

“It’s allowed us to put some new pieces of kit in for a start. It’s really to expand the packaging mock-up side and wet-proofing side of the business, which we’re heavily into since the YRG purchase of Eclipse. 

“We’re soon going to be offering flexographics and packaging mock-ups and we’re also going to be BRC-accredited and will have a clean room for doing mock-ups with the actual products inside.”

Little said the company searched for six months before settling on the new Cottingham premises, which is about double the size of the previous site at around 6,000sqm. It took around six months to refurbish.

He said the company had also used the £2m to buy a number of other pieces of kit, including a Vianord plate processor, an Asahi AWP Flowline and a Kongsberg digital cutting table.

He said YRG had a “good relationship” with Yorkshire Bank and it wasn’t hard to attain the funding package.

YRG Eclipse employs 30 staff, with YRG employing around 70 as a whole, spread over five other sites, with headquarters in York. The other YRG sites are in Cambridge, Dublin and Nairobi.