Heights (UK) Limited has opened a new office in Asia, Heights Korea Limited, based in Seoul South Korea, as a joint venture with its South Korean partner Song Young Sun.
The new company is primarily focused on the remanufacture of its range of printing plate processors.
This move is part of the company’s commitment to the environment by recycling and remanufacturing end-of-life equipment, extending its useful life. Remanufacturing has many positive environmental ramifications and is the ultimate form of recycling. Not only does it conserve raw material content, but also much of the value added during the processes required to manufacture new products.
As well as remanufacturing, the new facility in Korea will stock new machines and spare parts to support over 600 installations of printing plate processing equipment in South Korea.
The company has an active programme to establish similar centres that will facilitate the support and remanufacture of equipment in areas of the world where it has a large installation base.
Gary Jones, group chairman, said, ‘We are seeing both market and environmental conditions changing, and we believe that many of our products can be remanufactured to offer our customer base products of excellent quality at attractive prices.’
This is the second remanufacturing facility to be established outside of the UK, the first being in New Jersey, USA. Heights USA Inc. has been in the graphic arts equipment industry, and carrying out remanufacturing work, for over 20 years with customers including DuPont, AGFA, Pitman and Kodak.
The process of remanufacture involves the cleaning and reuse of most of the original structure of any particular unit, whilst updating, testing and reusing key electronic components, thus eliminating dangerous products from the waste system. This also maintains the robust integrity of the unit, which guarantees a quality product for the Heights Group.
