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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29273, 3 August 1960, Page 9

■ Growth of a young wjßWiHi* company in packaging and printing... > V. W. TRISTAN PACKAGING UMS I I >l’| LTD. 217 Moorhouse Avenue, ■■ * \v-" ' '■<■. '■ \‘i'*/--Christchurch. r - A period of remarkable expansion has been eynonymouQ w ’*h growth of Tristan Packaging Limited, well knowww . "'- |, c °i° ur printers, cardboard box and carton lIIMtKjt t L .--1 A policy of progressive plant replacement, modernisationyand the installation of machinery valued at many thousands* -IMWE "* W y°* pounds has been adopted and followed through. Plant- ‘ as k° en oui compactly on an assembly line basis jM||fes?Y.-k : j give maximum efficiency and considerable versatility has /feW, -Il I been achieved in that production can bo switched from one J I ' ine ,0 ano, ber with minimum delay. The Company is. there;l fcxe, able to deliver a rush order with the greatest possible " -.f'f7/1 ly .' , V’7 I facility. .y The fore-runner of the present Company, the Tristan Toy Company, was established in 1339 in a small factory at •. 1 ,, '-Xi*:'' ’.'" 7 1 -’ » '“-i-J.'\ "Vu •“‘Hl Riccarton. From this small beginning, under the guidance of the Managing Director. Mr Leslie Hudson, the Company has prospered and expanded. Toy production'has its limitations and resulted in Mr Hudson deciding to turn to packaging. Quad-Stayer in action (above) Forms and tapes boxes an industry in which his real interests lay. The woodworking automatically. machinery was sold to another firm, but toys, under the trade name "Tristan." are still manufactured. A private Company. Tristan Packaging Limited, was ! -TVffifffW registered in 1947. Plant included two automatic printing • >A ; I . ■'T '' * I platens, two box stapling machines, and a Rat bod printing press converted for cutting creases in boxes. This machinery, 5‘ '' ‘\-.ssmV °* anc * snt Vintage, was replaced as finance became ■ ~j BPprvWMF aTailable - .qI dHRiL <iiJwHllri The present up-to-date factory provides employment for EBafeSifefe alj £ approximately 30 persons and occupies an area of between " n I'7 '’*’,?■ dKk| rl '• ... 6.500 and 7.000 square feet. Plant includes throe Heidelberg 2l x inch original cylinder printing presses, a Glockner automatic cutter and creaser platen, an International folding V box g* uer> fhree automatic high-speed production wrapping S machines for box covering, an automatic quad stayer, an a£ j , automatic feed Deritend box creaser. a Deritend double 7header slotter and seven high-speed Vickers stitching '* i S~ z machines. For more than twelve months a double shift has been s ' k7/7 worked in the printing and carton department. The output *he factory includes about 120,000 shoe, hosiery, clothing and other varying types of boxes per month, as well as many (Above): Heidelberg printing cyclinders at work in the up- hundreds of thousands of folding cartons. Process colour to-date factorv printing for packaging, showcards and other promotional Y * material is a further feature which enters into this Company's production. . - - WSL, y ® n une 1' Tristan Packaging Limited took over the cardboard box department of Weeks Limited as a going concern, and plant and stock has been transferred to the ■ ! '-" J '" ’■ "7"s» l d Company's premises in Moorhouse Avenue. ' n 1858, the Company experienced the biggest expansion in its history turnover increased by 48| per cent. The turn- , 7... * s'» over for 1959 is expected to increase beyond 50 per cent. ' '-7’«-s»we «“The increasing importance of attractive, well presented -v r - . packaging to meet rising competition has become significant S» 3£k '° a " N®w Zealand manufacturers and. coincidentally, the ’ r * future of this Company is assured. PUT YOUR TRUST IN I | TRISTAN ... . (Foreground): Hi-Pro gluer. Pioneers in prestige (Background): Automatic wrapping machine. packaging

I ' Resf Easij... 'l** and leave your ■ ■ packaging problems • ■ with us... v_ And we mean that quite literally, ‘ because our methods leave nothing to chance. ‘ Just glance at the line-up of top sellers s-z ‘ displayed in this ad. Their popularity ! vMtfnNy / / jr"/ helps prove the effectiveness of Icnowledgable research and production. I \ W >/\ \ W/ / f Your quality product could sell just /Jis Xir / I.whKSk as well. Consult the specialists at I// I w 1 j Weeks and rest easy also. 1 >V \l\ Vi I 221-223 TUAM STREET. | Telephone 65-553. r J|