DS Smith has reinforced its setup in the metropolitan region of Hamburg in the promotion and display sector. In May, the new location in the GLINNKAMP commercial park duly opened. The new plant offers the customers of the company a real highlight: the first PackRight Centre in the Germany & Switzerland region has been opened here.

In beaming sunshine and in front of around 100 invited guests, the opening ceremony for the new DS Smith location took place in Glinde, by the gates of the Hamburg metropolitan region. "It is the first time in a long time that we are receiving a new location in the region that is precisely designed for our needs," says Ulrich Metzger, Sector Director Consumer Packaging & Display at DS Smith. "We have not only significantly enlarged ourselves and therefore created room for further growth with our customers, but also realised optimum requirements for efficiency and optimum work processes. I am particularly pleased that all of our employees have stayed loyal to us - and therefore our entire expertise has moved to the new location with us." The company's new location comprises around 4,700 m² area for production, logistics and packaging areas, offices and social rooms as well as the new PackRight Centre. It is located around three kilometres from the previous location in Reinbek.

The project was realised in a very short planning and implementation phase of just one year. "The coordination between Dr. Dominic de Vries, project manager for our landlord Beos, and Susanne Munzert, the architect responsible for the project from GFB worked incredibly well," underlines Thomas Kammler, Operational Manager of the Hamburg location. "My thanks go to them and all the colleagues involved in the project, whose great commitment does not go without saying. The location in the new commercial park is also ideal for us in terms of infrastructure and logistics."

" The new location also has the first DS Smith PackRight Centre in the Germany & Switzerland region. "The PackRight Centre offers our customers a unique advantage. Together with various customer contacts we are working together in a creative and dynamic field towards promotion and display solutions that will increase the turnover of our customers and simplify their processes," says Frederiksen. "A particularly important criterion is that we are able to use it to significantly reduce the time-to-market – so that our customers get their products onto the market more quickly."

The Display and Packaging Strategists at DS Smith cover the entire cycle: from the initial brainstorm to 3-D visualisations, production, design, packaging of displays to delivery to the retailer.

And the growth goes on: in November of this year the company will open a top class Display and Consumer Packaging plant in Erlensee, Main-Kinzig-Kreis.

 

Source : dssmith.com

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