GEON’s new printing facility won’t harm its other companies

Scheduled for completion in December this year, the new business will be managed by Andrew Durrans, group general manager, New Zealand and is designed to deliver a best-of-breed printing and mail service from the one location. The building will merge the facilities of GEON companies Brebner Print and BPG into one facility, which is to be equipped with prepress, printing and post-print services, mailing services and pick and pack logistics.

Only two of the 13 GEON New Zealand companies will be consolidated into the super facility, Gordon Towell group chief executive said: “The other companies remain separate entities throughout the Auckland area; these production facilities remain as they are.

“The super facility is the combination of two of our largest print businesses,” Towell explained. “We’re also putting in a new mail site and some warehouse space and digital equipment; it will be fairly impressive.” It is anticipated that all employees from Brebner Prin and BPG will transfer to the new facility, located at Highbrook Business Park.

“One of our objectives as the GEON Group is to have the latest possible technology across every aspect of what we do,” said Towell.

Ninety per cent of equipment installed in the new facility will be brand new, most likely from Heidelberg if the company's track record is anything to go by. “We need to be able to compete effectively against offshore competitors and as efficiently as possible,” Towell said. “Customers are more demanding; there’s no point in putting in old presses and expecting that efficiency to happen.”

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