NEW PLASTICS PLANT OPENING TODAY

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31975, 30 April 1969, Page 8

NEW PLASTICS PLANT OPENING TODAY

Today marks the official opening of a new 10,700 sq. ft Christchurch manufacturing plant for Plastic Products, Ltd, at Alfred Street (off Fitzgerald Avenue), near the heart of the city. The plant adjoins the premises of J. Gadsden and Company, Ltd, tin printers and cannistermakers. Both companies are members of Alex Harvey Industries, Ltd—formed recently by the merger of A.C.I. Operations (N.Z.), Ltd, and Alex Harvey and Sons, Ltd. Administration offices for the Christchurch factory are located across Fitzgerald Avenue in St Asaph Street. From here, the company* services its customers throughout the South Island, except for the Nelson and Blenheim areas which are handled by Plastic Products’ Wellington plant. A sales office in Dunedin is also maintained from Christchurch. Employing a staff of 35, the new plant produces blow-moulded, silk-screen printed bottles and flagons, plain and flexographicall.v printed polythene bags, and sheets for flexible packaging. Although the factory is being officially opened today, blow-moulding operations have been under way in Christchurch for several months. Film printing and bag conversion, which was to have lyegun at the same time, was delayed by a serious fire at the company’s Wellington factory last year. Essential equipment for removal to

Christchurch was destroyed and had to he replaced.

Ultimately, the company plans to extend its South Island operations to include other plastics manufacturing processes, and to keep pace with the South’s industrial growth.