New Zealand Ink Plant Capacity Increased

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Jun 28, 2004

Flint Ink has completed an upgrade of its ink plant in Auckland, New Zealand.

Flint Ink has completed an upgrade of its ink plant in Auckland, New Zealand.

Flint Ink consolidated the facility's manufacturing, product development and warehousing into one site, creating efficiencies, whilst improving capacity.

With these improvements, Flint Ink said it would provide higher quality product, faster turnaround times and would be better positioned to introduce new technologies to customers in the region.

The company has refurbished equipment and increased tank size in mixing areas to allow for bigger batches.

The additional capacity would also enable the plant to better service its export markets, including Australia, India, China, and South East Asia.

With the consolidation of the facilities, Flint Ink's Auckland product development laboratories and manufacturing have been brought together.

The company also dedicated a new factory building for the ink plant and purpose built a new laboratory facility that houses quality control, PDL and technical services.

The Auckland facility is the only ink plant in New Zealand to produce a wide range of ink systems for all printing needs claimed the company.

The plant manufactures conventional and UV paste inks, screen inks and water-based and solvent-based dispersions for the commercial, publication, news and packaging markets.

Michael Johnstone, general manager of Flint Ink New Zealand said: "We are committed to the New Zealand printing market and are confident that the enhancements to the Auckland ink plant will help local printers, converters and packagers gain a competitive advantage." The Auckland plant is ISO 9001:2000 certified.