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Both New Island manufacturing plants in Dongguan and Shanghai can provide our customers with full-scale one-stop packaging solutions. Both facilities are well-equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, equipment, and integrated production systems allowing us to strive for excellence and achieve long-term sustainable development goals with our customers, supplier and partners.

TIMELINE

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.
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.
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.
1988 Sir D. Wilson, the Hong Kong Governor, visited our Wong Chuk Hang factory. History 6
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. History 9
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.
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.
2002 Our Dongguan plant moved to a larger facility measuring 48,000-sq.m. in Dailingshan Science & Industrial Park. 未标题-3
2003 Both the Dongguan and Shanghai plants receive the HACCP Certificate.
2004 The New York office in the United States was formally established.
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.

 

2014 Both Dongguan and Shanghai factory was awarded the BRC system certification
2015 New Island celebrates 50th Anniversary. History 3
2016 Paris Representative Office was established and serves as our sales and marketing base in Europe.
2018 Heidelberg China presents Printing Press No. 888 Speedmaster CD 102-7+L offset press to New Island  2018.05.23 (86)
2019 Dongguan New Island purchased the BOBST MEILONG 110 automatic folder-gluer unit forming a high-performance productivity line.
2022 Shanghai New Island purchased Heidelberg CD102-7 seven-color machine to improve overall quality and efficiency.
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.  self sanitize spiker logo B款