Arrow Imaging meets customer demand and adds capacity

Arrow Imaging meets customer demand and adds capacity for future growth using Kodak’s i1860 production scanners

o Arrow Imaging invests over £200k in three Kodak i1860 scanners
o The new i1860 scanners will contribute to processing 5 million documents per month, some 238,000 every day, up from 3.5 million last year
o Existing Kodak scanner technology redeployed at Arrow Imaging’s disaster recovery site

March 27, 2008 – Eastman Kodak Company today announced that Arrow Imaging Limited, a Tamworth-based service bureau, has purchased three high

performance i1860 production scanners to process an ever increasing amount of client documentation and add capacity for future growth. Capturing up to 200 pages per minute[1], the i1860s installed are the fastest production scanners ever made by Kodak.

Arrow Imaging specialises in offering a range of bespoke document management services from physical storage, document collection and disposal to higher value scanning, archiving, hosting and software solutions. An accredited Invu document management software partner providing sales, implementation and training services, it is British Standard ISO 14001/1996 and ISO 9001/2000 accredited[2].

Founded in 1981, the company employs over 70 staff and has over 400 clients in numerous vertical markets where paper management is crucial such as aerospace, manufacturing, construction, energy, financial services and healthcare. Key customers include among others Dunlop, Bostik, George Wimpey, Balfour Beatty, Daimler Chrysler, Derbyshire Building Society, E.ON, West Midlands Ambulance Service and Seven Trent Laboratories.

Nick Hawkes, Arrow Imaging’s sales director, says “Our consultative approach to helping clients means that on average we retain customers for 12 years. Given this, along with 45 additional new business wins last year, turnover has increased year on year from £1.9 million in 2005 to £2.55m last financial year. This growth has driven the requirement to add additional scanning capacity to meet our day-to-day operational needs.”