Diamond sparkles with South American deal

The Sheffield-based company makes water-based pigmented dispersions and dispersed dyes to enable customers to make inkjet inks.

This latest contract, one of the firm’s biggest to date, is with an unnamed existing customer in South America. The company specialises in textiles printing and will use Diamond’s dispersions in products it creates for its own customers and also in the textile printing machines it sells.

Diamond Dispersions is winning new business in the textiles market as the traditional methods of printing move to inkjet. Peter Callahan, director at Diamond, which has an annual turnover of £1.13m, said: “We’ve spent the last few years building relationships with companies and individuals across South America – it’s a fast growing market.

“Diamond is one of the leading manufacturers of high quality dispersions for textile inks. The South American economy is growing at pace and more and more companies are moving from screen printing to digital which is where we come in.”