Heights opens operation in South Korea

Heights has founded Heights Korea, a new operation in South Korea that is a joint venture with its local partner Mr Song Young Sun focused on the remanufacture of the Heights range of printing plate processors.

Heights has founded Heights Korea, a new operation in South Korea that is a joint venture with its local partner Mr Song Young Sun focused on the remanufacture of the Heights range of printing plate processors

Based in Seoul, South Korea, the creation of Heights Korea is part of Heights commitment to the environment by recycling and remanufacturing end-of-life equipment, thereby extending its useful life and, importantly, the life of the earth’s resources.

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.

Heights said remanufacturing has many positive environmental ramifications and is the ultimate form of recycling., as not only does it conserve raw material content but also much of the value added during the processes required to manufacture new products.

This is the second remanufacturing facility to be established by Heights outside of the UK, the first being in New Jersey. Heights USA has been in the graphic arts equipment industry, and carrying out remanufacturing work, for more than two decades. With customers including DuPont, Agfa, Pitman and Kodak, its products span both the offset and flexo markets.

In the flexo sector, Heights USA’s remanufacturing capabilities and facility allow it to work on products made by other manufacturers.

Future plans for Heights USA include: fine tuning its processes to further eliminate waste and reduce cost; investigating techniques to maximize cleaning time and effectiveness; and applying its procedures to other products and industries. 

Heights USA trained staff at Heights Korea, and will continue to support the new operation with equipment and original OEM parts.

As well as remanufacturing, the new facility in Korea will stock new machines and spare parts to support over 600 installations of Heights printing plate processing equipment in South Korea.

Gary Jones, group chairman of Heights, 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.’