Collaboration, being genuine, excellence and agility – these are the underlying values behind NCI’s innovation and customer-focused “can do” attitude in investing in the newly commissioned $35 million state-of-the-art infant formula and food can plant located in Otahuhu. NCI Packaging is a privately owned packaging company. Founded in 1954, the company has grown from being a specialist manufacturer of cans to become a key product partner to many of Australasia’s leading milk powder, food, paint, and aerosol brands. “With operations in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea and with 68 years’ experience now blended with fresh injections of the best people from all fields of expertise and from using the latest technologies, we will continue to be positioned as a highly respected provider of premium packaging. We will also continue to provide superior customer service against key metrics such as speed, delivery performance and quality product despite these trying times,” says Windsor Yang, NCI’s National Sales Manager. NCI Packaging's ongoing commitment to innovation and new product development has resulted in holding numerous patents and registered designs. With product security being crucial, NCI Packaging has developed a range of industry-leading closures, tamper evident and anti-counterfeit features to ensure the integrity of products and support product serialisation and traceability. In “shaping the future”, NCI is also future proofing the growing needs of its customers, including Yashili New Zealand Dairy Company Limited. NCI manufactures a vast range of containers in many sizes, both metal and plastic, for many uses including a wide range of foods such as milk powders, butter, AMF, recipes, abalone – as well as paint, aerosols, chemicals, petroleum, and retail packs. NCI Packaging is unique in New Zealand because it “owns” the entire process of artwork creative design, prepress, coating, printing, and manufacturing cans under one roof. These means also in current times of unprecedented frequency of supply chain disruptions, NCI stands out in being able to deliver at unparalleled speed. Yet all the time maintaining the highest standards of print and product quality, food safety, traceability, and hygiene control. The company is the only can manufacturer in New Zealand certified to FSSC22000 which provides a framework for the safe supply of infant formula cans. Because the visual brand appeal of a product is vital, NCI have invested in high quality end-to-end decoration technologies for both metal and plastic: multi-colour lithographic printing directly onto tinplate, dry off-set printing of aluminium aerosols and in-mould labelling for injection moulded plastic containers. “Our tinplate cans are fully recyclable within NZ. We are also playing our part in terms of helping to reducing the carbon footprint, with all our operations of coating, printing, end-making, and can making carried out under the same roof. Our new state-of-the-art plant has allowed us to use less energy and generate less CO2 than our old legacy plant. Production and storage space utilisation efficiency has improved quite significantly. We are looking also at further downgauging our cans and ends. Also, we are looking at converting more of our factories to solar-powered energy and looking beyond the current horizon into using tinplate that are made from more-carbon neutral processes.” NCI Packaging is intent in working with its customers to help them eliminate mixed substrate packaging. “We are also thinking outside the square with unique shaped cans to reduce freight, storage, and transportation, therefore carbon footprint and cost – such as a fully nestable-when empty can that packs 4-5 shipping container lots into a single container.” Premium packaging a must www.ncipackaging.com | 0800 220 120 | customerservicenz@ncipackaging.com NCI congratulates Yashili New Zealand Dairy for their fabulous success, growth and contribution to New Zealand’s well-being and prosperity. We are honoured to be a supplier from our new state-of the-art can decoration and manufacturing plant in Otahuhu, New Zealand. This new FSSC22000-certi ed factory showcases some of the most superior and diverse metal packaging manufacturing operations serving the milk powder, dairy, food and industrial markets. The circa $35 million investment has brought with it, New Zealand’s only high-speed at sheet metal coating line and printing press, boasting high e ciency and quality – supported by in-company and in-house artwork prepress and CTP (computer-to-print) services. Further technical advancements include two high speed can lines, end lines and a drum and pail line - all demonstrating the new site’s highly developed manufacturing technology and ability. NCI ensures operations are to the highest hygiene standards, providing segregation of restricted zones and a high-hygiene hall. While also ensuring the most impressive array of automated in-line inspection systems are present which a ord product protection and quality for our customers. All this delivers a unique value proposition for Yashili and NZ’s canned infant formula milk powder manufacturers - in terms of speed-to-the-market, unrivalled agility, peace-of-mind food safety and responsive branding support during these dynamic times.
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