Primarily serving customers in the pharmaceutical, food and confectionery industries, about 90 per cent of the plant’s output is shipped to Canadian-based end-user clients, relates Hofland, with other Rosmar affiliates—located in Montreal, North Carolina, Arizona and Nebraska—looking after other North American markets.
Says Hofland: “Even with the current state of the economy, and given the rise in the Canadian dollar, we were not really affected all that badly.
“Whenever we do have a customer requiring U.S. product distribution,” he says, “we can have the product manufactured in the U.S. and shipped from there.”
While Hofland says he takes great pride in knowing that a vast majority of Torham/Hamilton’s clients have been doing business with one newly-merged partner or another for over 25 years, he quickly points out that such stability and loyalty should never be taken for granted—especially in today’s troubling economic climate.
Built to Grow
“We know that in order to not only keep our current customers but to also expand our customer base,” he told Canadian Packaging on a recent tour of the Hamilton plant, “we will need to continue offering extremely fast production turnarounds, while continuing to manufacture the highest-quality product we possibly can.”
And with the Hamilton-Torham merger helping create a larger, better-equipped and more diversified folding-carton manufacturer, Hofland says he is extremely proud of being able to offer one-stop capabilities to meet the packaging needs of all of its customers.
“Not only do we possess a wide range of technologies here, we are also able to offer our customers a plethora of substrates for their packaging needs, as our presses and other equipment have the ability to handle anything they want to throw at us,” states Hofland, while lavishing praise on the quality of the plant’s workforce, with the average employee boasting nearly 15 years of folding-carton industry experience.
More than enough, he reasons, to get optimal results from the plant’s impressive arsenal of printing presses capable of processing sheets up to 40-inches-wide—including two six-color Komori Lithrone 40 presses, a seven-color Koenig & Bauer Inc. (KBA) 105, and a Mitsubishi 3FC-7 seven-color press with a UV option—as well as five Bobst die-cutters with blanking capabilities, and top-quality folder-gluers that include a Bobst Media unit and Speed King and FX models manufactured by American International Machinery.
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