Outsource Packaging to open Durban facility

RAY SMUTS
GROWING ITS Durban customer base in the year ahead by opening a new factory in the area is uppermost on the agenda of Outsource Packaging, the Johannesburg company specialising in heavy industrial packaging.
“Durban is certainly on our expansion list within the next 12 months after which we intend focusing on Cape Town,” says marketing director Brett Vaughan.
He believes the company will in all probability lease a factory site initially, preferably in the vicinity of the port of Durban.
Located at Wadeville, Outsource Packaging, with a turnover of around R12 to R15 million a year, owns and operates a 1 700m2 undercover factory where it manufactures heavy industrial packaging for sea and airfreight exports like machinery and mining equipment.
A major part of the business, probably as high as 40%, is conducting on-site packaging operations for which the company supplies labour, machinery and the necessary raw materials for pallets, crates or breakbulk.
Outsource Packaging manufactures all the export crating for Caterpillar at Isando, through DHL Danzas.
Other new clients who have recently come aboard are Rotek Engineering, specialising in power distribution services, Warman Africa and Metso Minerals, both in the slurry pump business, and Isobodies.
Formed six years ago by Sean da Silva (MD), Andrew Hapur (financial director) and Vaughan, the company has grown to a staff of 55.