Over 25 years of expertise

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Fondée par Yves Ismaël, OVERPRINT propose depuis plus de 25 ans une solution brevetée de surimpression pour remettre en conformité les emballages, tout en réduisant les déchets.
Engagée pour la durabilité, l’entreprise utilise des encres à l’eau, des technologies à faible empreinte carbone et investit dans l’énergie solaire.

The company OVERPRINT was founded by Yves Ismaël.

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A technical and sales engineer, he worked for many years in northern France alongside a major industrial printer. His numerous assignments across the country led him to highlight one of the major and recurring problems his clients faced: the storage of tons of printed packaging that could not be sold because it had become obsolete due to various changes in legislation. In the mid-1990s, he commissioned a leading business school in Paris to conduct a market study. A sample of 50 companies, representative of all economic sectors using packaging, was consulted. Several questions were posed to company executives, marketing managers, and packaging purchasing directors.
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The process of bringing packaging into compliance was born.

Based on this study, and after several months of analysis and research, Yves Ismaël decided to begin developing new machines capable of masking erroneous text by overprinting it with new, compliant text printable on any type of flat or shaped substrate.

To meet industrial requirements and manage large quantities of packaging, he invented, 25 years ago, an innovative patented solution that became, a few months later, the first prototype of the overprinting machine.

Giving new life to packaging destined for disposal thus fulfilled two objectives dear to Yves Ismaël:

– Enabling his clients to save money by recycling their obsolete packaging

– Contributing to the sustainable reduction of industrial pollution by becoming an active participant in the preservation of nature and the environment.

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OVERPRINT is now looking towards its future.

Today, we count among our hundreds of clients some of the most prestigious names in the pharmaceutical, luxury agri-food, and cosmetics industries.

Thanks to our patented overprinting process, we bring millions of packages back into compliance every year, always striving to contribute to the protection of nature and the environment, notably through our innovative concepts and technologies.

We position ourselves as the market leader in the transformation and recovery of non-compliant packaging.

We continue our natural development with a strong commitment to an even more responsible economy and pledge to keep innovating while respecting nature and the environment. We already use food-grade, water-based, solvent-free inks and are developing new facilities with a controlled carbon footprint, such as our future production line designed entirely around laser printing technology.

In addition, our new production unit in Portugal is equipped with 190 solar panels installed on its roof, ensuring our energy self-consumption.

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