1964 |
In the early stage, New Island carried out small-scale production in a 6-storey factory building in Hong Kong.
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1967 |
Importation of the first Heidelberg two-coloured printing machine. |
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1971 |
New Island moved to a 60,000-sq.ft. factory building in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, where new cutting and folding machines were employed to improve production. |
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1985 |
New Island imported the first Heidelberg five-colour printing press to Hong Kong from abroad.
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1986 |
New Island purchased a 6C Rotogravure Printing Press. |
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1988 |
Sir D. Wilson, the Hong Kong Governor, visited our Wong Chuk Hang factory. |
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1989 |
Celebrating our 25th Anniversary, New Island relocated to a 120,000-sq. ft. premise in Somerset House, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. With the acquisition of new machinery and equipment, we were the first company to use the most advanced design and drafting technologies within Hong Kong.
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1990 |
In March, we had a joint venture with the Dailingshan Government. A new 46,900 sq. ft. facility was built in Nan Qu Industrial Park, Dailingshan, Dongguan. |
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1994 |
Celebrating our 30th Anniversary, the Quarry Bay Headquarter and our production operations were moved to a new 150,000-sq.ft. factory in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong.
New Island was awarded the ISO9001 quality system certification.
New Island became one of the first printers in China to have a fully-computerized workflow management using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System. Video conferencing, and ISDN high-speed data transfer among Hong Kong, China, and the U.S.A. were some of the electronic communication means. |
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1995 |
New Island became a member of the International Packaging Group (IPG) and was seated as the representative for Hong Kong, China region. |
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1997 |
Located in the southwest of Shanghai, our Songjiang manufacturing facility consisting of 8,850-sq.m. was built and fully operational. At the same time, we expanded our presence in the USA with the addition of sales representative officers in New York to develop closer ties and avoid communication delays. |
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2002 |
Our Dongguan plant moved to a larger facility measuring 48,000-sq.m. in Dailingshan Science & Industrial Park. |
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2003 |
Both the Dongguan and Shanghai plants receive the HACCP Certificate. |
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2004 |
The New York office in the United States was formally established. |
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2007 |
Our Shanghai production area was expanded to 31,000-sq.m. It was equipped with offset and flexographic printing facilities, converting processes, GMP workshop and hand-assembled facilities.
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2014 |
Both Dongguan and Shanghai factory was awarded the BRC system certification |
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2015 |
New Island celebrates 50th Anniversary. |
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2016 |
Paris Representative Office was established and serves as our sales and marketing base in Europe. |
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2018 |
Heidelberg China presents Printing Press No. 888 Speedmaster CD 102-7+L offset press to New Island |
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2019 |
Dongguan New Island purchased the BOBST MEILONG 110 automatic folder-gluer unit forming a high-performance productivity line. |
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2022 |
Shanghai New Island purchased Heidelberg CD102-7 seven-color machine to improve overall quality and efficiency. |
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2023 |
Focusing on our core business and continuously improving our competitiveness, New Island commenced research and development for Self-Sanitize Spiker (SSS) products in 2021 and officially launched the market in 2023. |
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