Dimension 1 moves into sheetfed converting with buyout of SCC

Effective from 1 June, the sale will add an extra dimension to the Sydney-based company. Ashley Goldsbrough, managing director of Dimension 1 said that the change was a long time coming. "We do slitting of roll-to-roll form but half the market is roll-to-sheet and they pretty much marry up together," he said. "But we've been too busy over the years to get into sheeting so we looked at getting a new machine and taking over SCC."

The expanded company will have two sheeting machines able to take maximum coil specifications of 1650 mm in width, 1830 mm in diameter and 4000 kg in weight. The equipment is expected to be operating from mid-August.

One machine will be dedicated to converting paper and the other to board. It's part of a plant upgrade that will include an automated pallet handling and wrapping system and the modernisation of current reel handling and wrapping systems. Goldsbrough also said that Dimension 1 will construct an air-conditioned clean room to house the company's film slitting section.

Employees from SCC will be offered their jobs with Dimension 1 and Goldsbrough said that all staff would be staying on. Buying SCC will place Dimension 1 in a unique position, he said. "It will expand our business in both sides of the market so that we can take on and service the whole market."



Pictured: Dimension 1's Ashley Goldsbrough (right) with John Kemp (left) and Mike Pearce (middle) of Souther Cross Converting NSW, after the official signing of the purchase.

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