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Simplex has announced the acquisition of the Octopus Sign System from sign and display product manufacturer, Workshop2.
Octopus is a wayfinding fingerpost system constructed from aluminium extrusions, designed for environments including town centres, business parks, and campuses.
Simplex, a trade-only signage supplier headquartered in West Sussex, has purchased Workshop2’s entire stock of Octopus Sign System products including the transfer of dies for future runs of extrusions.
Following the acquisition, Octopus products will be available exclusively from Simplex and its customers.
Speaking of the purchase, Andy Thorne, managing director of Simplex, says: “We have been making these kinds of products for over five years for both our own customers and to supply Workshop2 when necessary, so we are fully up to speed with the product.
“This well engineered system sits seamlessly with our other products and compliments our LOOK system when wayfinding monoliths are required as part of the same scheme.”
Simplex’s LOOK solution is a monolith sign system also made from extruded aluminium. The product features a flexible design developed to allow for a wide choice of substrates to be used for the face panels including metal, glass, vitreous enamel, acrylic, and stone slabs.
In addition to the Octopus Sign System, Simplex has announced the introduction of a solid finger system allowing pictograms and logos to be cut through. The system also allows for over cladding of the post, designed for ease of replacement in vandal prone areas.
Thorne adds: “If as an architect, designer, or end user, you need Octopus for your next project, please get in touch and we will point you in the direction of one of our ‘preferred partner’ sign companies who will have the expertise to help.”
Information about Octopus Sign System can be found on a new website Simplex has created promoting the product.
Simplex’s acquisition follows RMC Digital Print’s purchase of the MSS division of Workshop2 in August 2024. The strategic acquisition meant a permanent cessation of marketing, sales manufacturing, and supply of the HB Modular Sign System by Workshop2.
Both acquisitions are part of a winding down process from Workshop2, ahead of the reported retirement of industry stalwart and Workshop2 director, Jonathan Henderson-Quartey.
