July 2020
Meet the new Managing Director of Shave & Gibson Packaging (Pty) Ltd: Richard Downes
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 [...]
20/20 vision Into the future
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 [...]
June 2020
Group News – June 2020
"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 [...]
May 2020
Bobst Visioncut – a world first @ S&G
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. [...]
December 2019
Group News – December 2019
"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 [...]
November 2019
S&G strikes gold at Gold Pack Awards
The annual Gold Pack Awards evening was held on 30 October 2019 in Johannesburg. The Gold Pack Awards is the showcase for the South African packaging industry and from its inception in 1973 it has grown into an event of considerable importance and prestige. The competition for medals is [...]
July 2020
Meet the new Managing Director of Shave & Gibson Packaging (Pty) Ltd: Richard Downes
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 [...]
20/20 vision Into the future
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 [...]
June 2020
Group News – June 2020
"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 [...]
May 2020
Bobst Visioncut – a world first @ S&G
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. [...]
December 2019
Group News – December 2019
"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 [...]
November 2019
S&G strikes gold at Gold Pack Awards
The annual Gold Pack Awards evening was held on 30 October 2019 in Johannesburg. The Gold Pack Awards is the showcase for the South African packaging industry and from its inception in 1973 it has grown into an event of considerable importance and prestige. The competition for medals is [...]
July 2020
Meet the new Managing Director of Shave & Gibson Packaging (Pty) Ltd: Richard Downes
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 [...]
20/20 vision Into the future
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 [...]
June 2020
Group News – June 2020
"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 [...]
May 2020
Bobst Visioncut – a world first @ S&G
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. [...]
December 2019
Group News – December 2019
"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 [...]
November 2019
S&G strikes gold at Gold Pack Awards
The annual Gold Pack Awards evening was held on 30 October 2019 in Johannesburg. The Gold Pack Awards is the showcase for the South African packaging industry and from its inception in 1973 it has grown into an event of considerable importance and prestige. The competition for medals is [...]