Company History
1930's
In the 1930's Sauven Perforating Company manufactured a range of perforating machines which were sold world wide. The company was owned and managed by Jean Sauven.
1940's
In the late 1940's a second generation Sauven, Maurice Sauven, joined the business with plans for rapid expansion.
1950's
In the 1950's Sauven changed their name to Sauven Marking Machines to reflect their move into online coding machines using rubber type, ink rollers and a range of flexographic printers. During this period one of their largest export distributors was Dodwell in Japan.
1960's
By the early 1960's Sauven had continued to expand achieving over 50% sales to export. Their Codedge brand of coding machines for beer labels achieved world dominance. Almost every major brewery world wide had a Codedge; Anhauser Bush the leading American beer manufacturer had a Codedge on every production line world wide.
1970's
Sauven continued to expand their range of coding and marking machines during the 1970's with many product variances to satisfy growing demand. Again Sauven enjoyed dominance in certain sectors of the market. The New Zealand dairy board became one of many major customers. In 1978 the present managing director, David Sauven, joined the company as a third generation Sauven.
1980's
1980's saw the introduction of the early carton marking ink jet printers and the start of the change in coding and marking technology. Sauven launched their first ink jet printer designed and developed by Sauven. The new Codajet 1000 range of printers was an immediate success gaining sales in both UK and export markets. The drop on demand valve technology continues today with the Codajet 5000 range offering low cost simple outer carton printing.
1990's
1990's saw ink jet printing advancing with high resolution printing piezo technology. Sauven became one of the first to integrate the Xaar piezo technology into their new Codajet 6000 range of printers for the food beverage, pharmaceutical, industrial and electronic markets. Sauven enjoyed a period of rapid expansion as these printers sold in large volume around the world for both primary product small character printing and outer product marking.
2004
2004 Sauven designed and built their own UK manufacturing, research and sales headquarters to house their growing world business. Exports continued to grow with major successes for sales in China and South America.
2007
2007 Sauven launched the new generation 6000Plus range of piezo ink jet printers to satisfy the ever changing world market place. Sauven remain a privately owned company and set their sights on a further period of expansion.