On Friday 19 February the punching hall was officially opened by Dave King (former MD, Packaging). The hall was named “Dave’s Punching King-Dom,” after Dave’s many years of dedicated service to S&G. Dave always had this vision to reshuffle our plant and streamline our factory, to improve on the production flow. This daunting task would [...]
This year Shave & Gibson turns 40 after it was established in 1981, on 1181 South Coast Road. (not far from where we are now.) We have been manufacturing quality packaging for the past four decades and moved across the road from 1169-1183 to 1290 South Coast Road, Mobeni in 2006. Our plant in 1981 [...]
"We could have been debating retrenchments; closures; fire sales or the like. Instead, we were occupied in esoteric conversations on matters philosophic, having achieved 3 consecutive record production and turnover months. Little to do with me – I am now a mere interested cheerleader rooting for the success of this mainly young management team [...]
Yesterday, Shave & Gibson was awarded (via teleconference) the Packaging Supplier as well as the Overall Supplier of the year for Famous Brands for 2019. We are immensely proud of this achievement as it reaffirms our position in the packaging industry as a market leader, having been awarded the Famous Brands Supplier of the Year [...]
South Africa’s paper recovery stood at 68.5% with 1.2 million tonnes of recyclable paper products diverted from landfill during 2019, according to Anele Sololo, general manager of RecyclePaperZA, the paper recycling association of South Africa. Among the most recycled paper-based items in 2019 were cardboard boxes at 71%, while office paper recovery and beverage [...]
Richard was born in Durban and is the eldest of three brothers. He was schooled at Clifton Preparatory High School and Durban High School, from which he matriculated in 2005, and where he was a prefect, and was awarded honours for swimming and water polo. Richard swam competitively for many years, representing KZN, and [...]
LAST month, readers were given a sneak peek of the latest round of investments undertaken by Shave & Gibson (S&G), with a tantalising picture of the arrival of covered containers in Durban’s South Coast Road. Now all those items of equipment are unpacked, installed, commissioned and operating at full tilt . . . and [...]
"The world as we know it will not be the same again in all of our working lives. Covid-19 has taught us much about how businesses can be more efficient and more effective. This is one of the few slivers of silver linings of this rampant pandemic. At the risk of being tragically wrong, I [...]
Installation taking place in the Shave & Gibson packaging hall In February this year, we sent two of our most experienced production managers in Mike van Der Westhuizen and Rory Jackson to Austria to take a gander at some machines that the packaging division were looking into. “Visiting the Druckerel Vuralberg factory [...]
"However back at S&G, the only constant evident is perpetual and radical change. To paraphrase the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this process of continuous evolution which can be “uncomfortably exciting” is part of who we are and part of our DNA." "We have decided that only a significant investment in [...]
