News & Case Studies
Viscount Plastics Wins Gold
From inception to delivery - Viscount provides new smart solution. Viscount Plastics has won two gold awards for their new SmartPail™. Best product within the Food & Beverage Category - Gold Award & Best product within the conventional Injection Moulding Category - Gold Award was awarded to Viscount Plastics at the Plastics New Zealand awards night. The project highlights Viscounts' highly skilled team and in-house design capabilities that managed the project from inception to delivery.
Viscount Plastics' SmartPail™
New Space Saving Design with Smart Features. Smart thinking by Auckland-based Viscount Plastics (NZ) Ltd is reflected in the naming of their new 10 Litre rectangular SmartPail™.
Viscount Plastics cleans up at the Pampito Awards
The Pampito Graduation Ceremony is recognised as a prestigious occasion to celebrate the academic achievements of those who work within the manufacturing sector. Amongst the 68 trainees and apprentices that are expected to receive awards within the industry, Viscount Plastics will be well represented by the following employees...
Proud winner of "Safety, Security and Environmental Innovation Award"
Viscount Plastics is the proud winner of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport's prestigious "Safety, Security and Environmental Innovation" award for 2010.
We are particularly proud of the fact that our win was directly related to the innovation and success we have been able to achieve working with Foodstuffs Wellington, KFC and Inghams, while implementing advanced Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP) - multi-trip, reusable plastic crates, bins, trays and pallets - increasingly replacing one-trip cardboard transit packaging by environmentally responsible companies.
COOKIE TIME PUTS BUCKET LOADS OF TRUST IN VISCOUNT PLASTICS
A long-term and trust-forged relationship with Viscount Plastics pays off at a critical time for Cookie Time
Case Study Outline:
Cookie Time entrusted its long-standing partner, Viscount Plastics, to develop newly designed packaging, featuring the latest labelling innovation-inmould labelling (IML) - to replace the iconic Cookie Time Christmas Cookies bucket.
Say "goodbye" to shrink-wrap waste and "hello" to increased safety and security
The Strap Lid is the revolutionary pallet lid restraint system from Viscount Plastics, and is a breakthrough in securing level loads on pallets and dollies that progressive, cost-efficient and environmentally-sensitive logistics companies have been calling for.
Foldable Crates Bring Cost savings And Introduce 'One-Touch' Supply Chain Handling
A first for New Zealand and at the leading edge of Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP), the Viscount Plastics Foldable Crate range offers this country's manufacturing and primary industries the very real opportunity to achieve major freight and warehousing cost savings as well as introduce 'one touch' handling to their supply chains.
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A first for New Zealand and at the leading edge of Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP), the Viscount Plastics Foldable Crate range offers this country's manufacturing and primary industries the very real opportunity to achieve major freight and warehousing cost savings as well as introduce 'one touch' handling to their supply chains.
Roller basket provides mind-shift in retail shopping
It is being hailed as a mind-shift and a much-needed solution to customer and retailer needs in Australasia for the next decade. Importantly it is proven to boost sales by 18-23%; causes customers to linger and spend 11% more time in a store; and supports the growing category of the purchaser wanting to shop more frequently for fresh and convenience products*.
Viscount Plastics and EDL Fasteners advance hardware packaging in New Zealand
A supplier-client partnership between Viscount Plastics and EDL Fasteners has trumped the traditional round screw top PET jar for screws and small fasteners with rectangular 400ml 'flip lid' plastic packaging that is taking EDL Fasteners to the forefront of brand identity and consumer appeal in hardware stores.
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Dual Height Poultry Crate Wins Environmental Packaging Award for Viscount Plastics
Every day, 362 days a year, half a Tonne of one-way contaminated cardboard removed has been removed from the waste stream. In addition there has been an increase in space utilisation in delivery trucks by 15%, These benefits have contributed to Viscount Plastics taking out a top award in the Packaging Council's 2009 Environmental Packaging Awards.
Viscount Plastics RTP is green! Far greener than single-trip cardboard.
Viscount Plastics is at the forefront of Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP) in New Zealand, supplying a wide range of off-the-shelf, multi-trip plastic crates, bins, trays and pallets. Viscount also has the resources and capabilities to custom-manufacture RTP solutions. (Returnable Plastic Packaging - RTP - describes multi-trip, reusable plastic crates, bins, trays and pallets that worldwide are replacing one-trip cardboard transit packaging).
Viscount Plastics New Materials Handling Range
Viscount Plastics New Zealand (VPNZ) General Manager Sean Delaney is a firm believer that suppliers can learn a lot from listening to customers. Since taking up his appointment in early 2008, Mr. Delaney has put a priority on establishing a dialogue with some of New Zealand's key materials handling entities.
Benefits Of Deep Nesting Crate Not Chicken Feed
KFC's New Returnable Transit Packaging developed by Viscount Plastics is driving a freight cost breakthrough.
Viscount Plastics Collapsible Bin Delivers For NZ Post
Research recently commissioned by a leading circular distribution company revealed that the majority of New Zealanders enjoy finding unaddressed advertising material in their letterboxes.
New Zealand linked to supply chain innovation at Marks & Spencer
Viscount Plastics New Zealand's parent, LINPAC Group, has played a key roll in helping UK's Marks & Spencer build a new 'fresher and better quality' produce supply chain based on 3.5 million returnable delivery trays implanted with RFID tags.
Plastic crates the best thing since sliced bread
Week in, week out the Southern Hemisphere's biggest and most sophisticated bakery distributes 2.5 million loaves, rolls, crumpets, pikelets and hot cakes throughout Sydney in a crate first produced by Viscount Plastics in the late 1980's.
Recycling contributes to South Island export success
Anyone who knows us at Viscount Plastics New Zealand will confirm the lengths we go to ensure our products are capable of being ground up for recycling as raw material for plastic moulding and extrusion.
Square keeps the world going 'round'
Square is the shape of logistics efficiency. Compared with round containers, rectangular packaging can be more than 40% space efficient.
Viscount Plastics wins 2006 NZIP Innovation Award For New Paint Can
Viscount Plastics New Zealand has won a major packaging industry award with a straight sidewall 8 litre paint can that has also caught the eye of sister company Ropak, one of the largest packaging manufacturers in North America.
New Zealand produce and manufacturing combine in all-in-one export package
Viscount Plastics NZ and New Zealand Kiwifruit growers are together contributing to the world's highest penetration into a supermarket chain of environmentally responsible foldable Returnable Plastic Crates (RPC's).
The Warehouse Sold On Solution
Employing Viscount Plastics to supply a conveyor-compatible crate solution has lowered the cost of distribution for retail giant The Warehouse.
This Tub's A Flyer
A plastic tub developed by Viscount Plastics New Zealand is a key contributor to the on-board safety and security of passengers departing Auckland International Airport.
Goodman Fielder onto a winner
The brief to Viscount Plastics was for creative packaging design that would move Goodman Fielder's Sunshine and Choice brands to the premium end of the catering spread category.
"Gimme, gimme. My dinner's in there!"
Anything involving food seems to bring out learning and observation abilities hitherto hidden in many family dogs, so is it not altogether surprising Viscount Plastics is predicting thousands of chops licked whenever canines see a Flip Lok plastic container in their owners' hands.
Colour Paints Pail Success
After just one year in paint outlets, Taubmans Trends achieved a tad under 40% unprompted awareness in the brand-cluttered, highly competitive mid-price market.
Deep Nesting Crate Almost Halves Return Empty Costs
"I'm not claiming FCC and Viscount Plastics have reinvented the wheel, but the way this 47 litre produce crate deep nests to almost have the costs of road freighting empty crates I'd say we have improved it dramatically," suggests Hans Wouters, Fruit Case Company (FCC) General Manager.
Sainsbury's cutting costs over the last 50 metres of retail
In retail logistics the quest is to continually refine the costs and methods of moving products from supplier through to the consumer, particularly over the 50 metres separating the delivery dock from the point-of-sale.
