Business View Oceania | Volume 4, Issue 2

57 58 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 AMERICA USA BRAZIL ASIA PACIFIC AUSTRALIA CHINA EUROPE AUSTRIA GERMANY UNITED KINGDOM TURKEY (• İstanbul - İzmir) Sales Office Factory We united under the umbrella of OYAK and became a global leader. We manufacture all around the world. 5 CONTINENTS 1000+ COLLEAGUES 70+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 1 In PVC Stabilizers Number 360K t Total production capacity Most integrated PVC additives manufacturer A Global Leader in PVC Stabilizers TECHPLAS in products that require a lot more PVC and innovation than your standard little T-section- products many other companies simply won’t facilitate. We have also started up our own product line that we’ve been pushing into the market for the last few years.” The team of 45 at TechPlas operates out of two manufacturing sites in Sydney, Australia; Pendle Hill, which serves as the major manufacturing facility and head office, and Smithfield, which handles flexible PVC products. TechPlas’ Smithfield site also provides a unique opportunity to recycle soft PVC, allowing the company to extend its capabilities for the collection and processing of industrial waste. In differentiating themselves in the market, TechPlas immediately cites their autonomy over chemical technology, thanks to the experience of their founders. “One of our founders, Grant McMillan, has an extensive chemical background,” Mr. Pettit explains. “So, right from the early days, we blended all of our raw materials and formulations on-site. The traditional route in our industry is to use compounded material, which involves employing an external source to blend and formulate a particular polymer formula for use. We’ve always believed that it’s important to keep our technology, intellectual property, and innovative capabilities in house. For the vast majority of the products that we manufacture, we blend the raw materials on-site, and retain the intellectual property and technology for it.” Mr. Swann elaborates, “We also have a greater focus and capability for product design than a lot of the other companies in our space are interested in. We can make bigger profiles ourselves, but we can also assist other companies and with a lot of the design and engineering work. For many of the larger players in our industry, unless you approach with a complete design ready for tooling and manufacture, you’re not going to get very far. We are happy to spend in some cases