Updated: April 2008

Over the last 12 months we have experienced strong growth due to the continued investment in machinery and personnel. In an industry which has over capacity and competition is as strong as ever we have bucked the trend. Where competitors have seen a down turn in sales and some been forced to close, we have experienced over 25% growth year on year.

As we strive for better quality, greater efficiency and increased productivity we feel we have to keep investing to maintain and increase our competitiveness. This has in part been achieved through the purchase of our Emba casemaker, now giving us the ability to print 3 colours on 0201 style boxes and produce more boxes per hour than previously.

We have also bought an Ashai AP1600 flat bed diecutter. This has improved the quality of our diecutting and now we can confidently produce a greater range of products that will be fully stripped.

One of our strengths is our service to the customer and reacting to there needs and demands in a timely fashion. Many of our customers are moving towards more bespoke packaging and require samples of varying designs and or materials. We therefore thought it prudent to improve our service here and invested in a CAD CAM Casemake sample table. This gives us more control over New Product Development; from product design and sampling through to production and delivery.

As we have grown we have also recognised the need to bring in new personnel. Though this wasn’t just a case of seeking anyone who could put boxes on a pallet, we needed quality people to help us continue to improve. We have taken on 6 new factory personnel, each with great knowledge and experience in the corrugated industry. These new faces have brought new ideas and a fresh look at some of our working practises. With these ideas and tweaking a few processes we have seen an improvement in quality and productivity.

We have also updated our transport fleet and are currently in negotiations for a new dry end on the corrugator.

We now look to continue our improvements both in sales and productivity in the future and are committed to providing our customers with quality product and service.