Over 100 ANZ team members, customers and supplier partners joined the Bev-Cap team, part of TricorBraun, this week for the opening of its new Western Sydney manufacturing facility on Coronation Avenue, Kings Park. PKN was in attendance.
The project, which took more than six months to complete and cost in excess of $2 million, has been a joint effort between the teams at PB Packaging, Bev-Cap and Cormack Packaging.
The new 2500sqm purpose-built injection moulding facility, nearly three times the size of Bev-Cap's former Binney Road site, enables the ANZ team to serve customers better by bringing warehousing back in-house, and meeting required industry certifications for potential future growth with dairy, food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical customers.
The facility has 16 injection moulding machines – ranging from 80 to 380 tonnes – three sub assembly and wadding machines, a 600-pallet space warehouse, and a four-tonne capacity crane for die changes. The site also has further expansion potential of another 700sqm.
The 16 injection moulding machines produce a wide range of caps and closures, multi-part closures, and grease cartridges.
“The opening of the Coronation Avenue TricorBraun Bev-Cap manufacturing site was the culmination of much hard work and collaboration of several stakeholders,” Court Carruthers, president and CEO of TricorBraun, told PKN.
“The site has been future-proofed with respect to space and power supply – having the capability to move to 2000 amps of power, and forms the third component of TricorBraun’s injection moulding footprint in Sydney, with our two additional sites already in place at Condell Park and Penrith.”
Andrew Allsop, executive general manager at PB Packaging, opened proceedings, welcoming those in attendance, and then handed over to Mathew Cormack, head of Cormack Packaging, who spoke on why and how the site was chosen in regards to the growth of the business.
“Today is all about TricorBraun’s commitment into the Australian marketplace. We’re here, we’re growing, and we have a real intention of being an ongoing and important part of the business and its growth,” Cormack said.
“One of the values at TricorBraun and one of our goals as an organisation on all of our sites, is that we want to be the best place for the best people in packaging, because then we can service our customers to the best of our abilities.”
The opening ceremony was attended by representatives from the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, health and well-being, personal care, household chemical and cleaning, garden and lawn care, and industrial sectors.
