Jamestrong opens its new infant formula can manufacturing facility

International packaging manufacturer Jamestrong Packaging has inaugurated a $15 million can facility in Auckland, NZ, following increased demand for New Zealand baby formula. The facility will manufacture 50 million cans per annum, and at the appropriate time a second line can be dropped into the state-of-the-art facility, effectively doubling that capacity.

Jamestrong ANZ Managing Director Alex Commins said: “The fact that we have opened three production facilities in just over three years speaks volumes about the trajectory of New Zealand and Australia’s infant formula market and the demand coming from international markets, in particular China.”

The company has high care infant formula can manufacturing plants in Hornby, Christchurch and Kyabram, Australia.

“Jamestrong Packaging is committed to supporting our clients with innovative, hygienic and, most importantly, safe packaging. We are grateful for the trust they place in us, which rests in a huge way on having market-leading high care facilities and world class productivity output such as the one we are opening today in Wiri, Auckland,” he said.

“The infant formula market is an industry where safety is everything, and failure right through the supply chain, is simply not an option.”