12.01.14
Heights (UK) Limited has announced the formation and opening of Heights Korea Limited, based in Seoul, South Korea. The new company, a joint venture with its South Korean Partner Mr. Song Young Sun, is primarily focused on the remanufacture of the Heights range of printing plate processors.
This move is part of Heights commitment to the environment by recycling and remanufacturing end-of-life equipment, thereby extending its useful life and, importantly, the life of the earth's resources. Remanufacturing has many positive environmental ramifications and is the ultimate form of recycling, the company says. "Not only does it conserve raw material content, but also much of the value added during the processes required to manufacture new products."
This is the second remanufacturing facility to be established by Heights outside of the UK, the first being in New Jersey, USA. Heights USA Inc. has been in the graphic arts equipment industry, and carrying out remanufacturing work, for over 20 years. With customers including DuPont, Agfa, Pitman and Kodak, their products span both the offset and flexo markets.
Specifically in the flexo sector, Heights USA’s remanufacturing capabilities and facility allow them to work on products made by other manufacturers. These include: ECLF’s; WaterPress and solvent based stacker plate makers; full process inliners; batch processors and ETL’s up to 3000 size; plate finishers and dryers. Heights USA maintains the original drawings and engineering talent from legacy products made by Technigraph Inc. and Kelleigh Corporation, while continuing to refurbish those products that are still used today.
As well as remanufacturing, the new facility in Korea will stock new machines and spare parts to support over 600 installations of Heights printing plate processing equipment in South Korea. The company has an active program to establish similar centrers that will facilitate the support and remanufacture of equipment in areas of the world where it has a large installation base.
Gary Jones, Group Chairman of Heights, says “We are seeing both market and environmental conditions changing, and we believe that many of our products can be remanufactured to offer our customer base products of excellent quality at attractive prices."
This move is part of Heights commitment to the environment by recycling and remanufacturing end-of-life equipment, thereby extending its useful life and, importantly, the life of the earth's resources. Remanufacturing has many positive environmental ramifications and is the ultimate form of recycling, the company says. "Not only does it conserve raw material content, but also much of the value added during the processes required to manufacture new products."
This is the second remanufacturing facility to be established by Heights outside of the UK, the first being in New Jersey, USA. Heights USA Inc. has been in the graphic arts equipment industry, and carrying out remanufacturing work, for over 20 years. With customers including DuPont, Agfa, Pitman and Kodak, their products span both the offset and flexo markets.
Specifically in the flexo sector, Heights USA’s remanufacturing capabilities and facility allow them to work on products made by other manufacturers. These include: ECLF’s; WaterPress and solvent based stacker plate makers; full process inliners; batch processors and ETL’s up to 3000 size; plate finishers and dryers. Heights USA maintains the original drawings and engineering talent from legacy products made by Technigraph Inc. and Kelleigh Corporation, while continuing to refurbish those products that are still used today.
As well as remanufacturing, the new facility in Korea will stock new machines and spare parts to support over 600 installations of Heights printing plate processing equipment in South Korea. The company has an active program to establish similar centrers that will facilitate the support and remanufacture of equipment in areas of the world where it has a large installation base.
Gary Jones, Group Chairman of Heights, says “We are seeing both market and environmental conditions changing, and we believe that many of our products can be remanufactured to offer our customer base products of excellent quality at attractive prices."