Fremont, California-based wide-format printer manufacturer and workflow software developer EFI announces plans to move the U.S. inkjet division of the company. Located in Londonderry, New Hampshire, the new building offers a quarter-million square feet of space and is expected to open in early 2018.

The new facility, 25 percent larger than the current office in Meredith, New Hampshire, which is spread across multiple buildings, will allow consolidation of operations into a single facility and will include research & development, manufacturing, warehousing, training and service for EFI VUTEk and EFI Wide Format printers, along with worldwide sales and marketing management for EFI’s broader portfolio of narrow, wide- and superwide-format industrial inkjet printers and presses. A new, state-of-the-art customer briefing and demo center in the facility will house EFI inkjet production printers for signage and graphics, textile and label applications, along with related EFI Productivity Software and EFI Fiery digital front end workflow products.

The company says the design of the facility is being modeled on the open concept the company has successfully implemented in its Silicon Valley, California, global headquarters. The new site does have room for expansion if necessary, the company says.

The Londonderry office is roughly an hour north of Logan International Airport, and less than a mile fromManchester-Boston Regional Airport.

“While we are extremely grateful to have been part of the very welcoming business community in Meredith,” saysScott Schinlever, EFI inkjet’s senior vice president and general manager. “Relocating to the Manchester area comes with some key advantages to help us continue growing, including proximity to the tremendous pool of talent in the greater Boston metropolitan region.”

With $447.7 million in revenues in 2015, and growing an average of over 15 percent annually for the last five years, the EFI inkjet business now accounts for more than half of the company’s total sales.