This company started trading by selling adhesive vinyl in metres out of a tiny garage in a suburb West of Durban in 1992. Since then, the company has come a long way in servicing the signage, digital graphics and display industry. The company’s current range of products include wide format digital printers, adhesive vinyl, CNC routers, cutting plotters, PVC and other flexi substrates, heat transfer media, outdoor display solutions, PVC signex board, dye sublimation products, liquid de-identification products and software.

In 2003 the company set up a national distributor network that ensures their products and services reach every major city in South Africa. Technicians travel extensively to maintain, repair and service equipment sold by Sytech Supplies. However, despite all the travelling and nationwide shipping of products, the Sytech Supplies brand remained pretty much a Durban-based one.

All that is changing in December 2009, when Sytech Supplies opens its first branch outside Durban – in Port Elizabeth.

In a move toward building a truly South African signage and graphics suplier brand, Sytech Supplies has just taken the first of several step in that direction. “From December the beautiful coastal city of Port Elizabeth will be our second home”. says Arthur Van Wyk, Sytech’s head of Brand Marketing. He jokingly adds that the reason for going to Port Elizabeth first (as opposed to Johannesburg) is because “it’s windy there and we hope that wind will blow us to the rest of the country”.

The new Sytech Supplies offices will open on 1 December 2009. Managing this new branch is Colin Rishworth (pictured). Colin is himself a signs & graphics veteran who has been active in the industry since 1988. Colin, like many big names in the industry, started out as the guy that sold you a machine and also the guy that fixed and serviced it. Colin and his staff are just as excited as the Durban-based contingent about this move.

When asked about the company’s expansion plans, CEO Malcolm Groger reckoned: “Sytech Supplies has a vast number of customers around South Africa using the company’s products, and to improve our service levels and value offering to these customers we decided to open in Port Elizabeth in December and in Johannesburg early in the new year”.

For orders and enquiries, Sytech Supplies Port Elizabeth can be contacted on 041 360 2760 or sales@sytechsupplies.com