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Nekkorb gets behind the GRAPHICS INDUSTRY Company brings an ethical approach to business
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n 2009, Frank Brokken and his wife Claire set up Nekkorb Solutions to cater to the growing graphic arts industry initially in New Zealand and later Australia. Frank had spent 33 years working for a number of top name companies such as DuPont and Morrison Printing (now Flint Inks). Always keen to learn of the latest overseas graphic technology that could improve Australasia’s printing industry, he developed a solid reputation in the industry. Since Nekkorb’s inception, Frank’s strong associations and friendships with people and companies, have proved invaluable. He quickly secured a group of well-known companies as his principals, possessing a firm belief, from the outset, that Nekkorb would supply only trusted, tried, and respected brands. “We want to work with great people and companies that have great products and a commitment to a sound research and development programme,” he said. “It sounds a little old fashioned, but we only wanted to partner with companies whose ethics fitted Nekkorb’s. This philosophy has been a testament to our continued growth and success. “Today, Nekkorb Solutions represents a world class group of innovative and industry leading manufacturers of consumables and capital equipment for the printing industry.” Frank describes these brands: • MPS – the manufacturer flexographic, offset, and digital hybrid label printing machines. The MPS machine range is the most advanced technology and software-based solution in the marketplace today with machines that run from roll to roll or roll to sheet. • DuPont – flexographic printing plates and equipment. The innovator in flexo plate production, DuPont, introduced the environmentally friendly thermal plate process Cyrel Fast with thousands of installations now spread across the globe. • SOMA – the flexographic machine leading innovator with the Optima2 platform now setting the benchmark for all other equipment manufacturers to aspire to. • 3M – the science company that has developed world-class label materials, tapes of all types and safety and protection equipment that can be trusted. • WINK – flexible and rotary dies that have established themselves as the industry standard. If you want a trusted and consistent brand to enhance your production room then WINK products are certainly there to do that. • Zecher – anilox rollers for coating stations and printing machines that are serious about product consistency and lower costs. The inventor of the anilox roll more than 70 years ago. No one has more experience and can deliver results for higher production speeds, improved productivity, and increased profits.
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The Nekkorb team: (l-r) Harry Brokken, Claire Brokken, Frank Brokken, Kelly Slow, Roy Day, and Natasha Brokken
• TKM – top doctor blades with coated and uncoated edges that can defy the odds and deliver colour and production consistency. • KTI – butt splicers, turret winders, and more. This innovative equipment can be trusted to deliver results day after day. • X-Rite – industry leading colour measuring devices that set the standard across the world. If you want to communicate with brand owners, production plants and designers across the world, no other company can match its consistency of outcomes. The other great product that X-Rite has to offer is the Rutherford Graphic Product upgrade of older offset presses with colour management and control systems that enables them to compete productively and profitably against more modern equipment. • Esko – integrated solutions for packaging, printing, and finishing. Esko’s Web Centre and Automation Engine enables the most advanced workflow possibilities available today. “In the past 18 months, Nekkorb has been appointed as agent for MPS label printing machines in A/NZ and DuPont plates and equipment in New Zealand,” Frank said. “Nekkorb has enjoyed steady growth year on year through the group of great people who comprise the Nekkorb team. Our eldest daughter Natasha (Tash) joined us in early 2012. In 2017, Kelly Slow joined us; followed by Roy Day in February 2018; and Harry Brokken in early 2019. “Everyone at Nekkorb understands the importance of the customer, as they are our future. They make our business, and they have been the reason for its success and growth. We understand that service is a growing relationship that must be exercised every day, in every transaction. “We never want to feel that we don’t need to improve, as I know that we do. We love the industry and we love the people that we deal with. Tash will be the future manager of the business and, with her at the helm, the future looks bright and exciting.”
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