BJ Ball has streamlined its operations with a new Victorian site, as it chases greater market share in fibre-based packaging. The company has upped sticks from the 33,000sqm Braeside facility it inherited from its 2011 buyout of CPI, and moved into a purpose-built 24,000sqm site in Dandenong South valued at around $11m according to construction group Hansen Yuncken. Two new Marquip sheeter converters will join its fleet, in a space which marketing and business development manager Tony Bertrand says will be streamlined for greater efficiency, with no wasted space.

BJ Bal’s new purpose-built Dandenong South warehouse

He says the site will deliver ‘much faster’ turnaround times, and the added kit will allow the paper merchant to provide all grades of fibre-based packaging substrates. BJ Ball says it is looking to fill a void in the market left by the closure of Amcor’s Petrie recycled coated cartonboard mill. Bertrand says sales and market share in Victoria are stable, which he says is a great achievement in a contracting and unpredictable market. The new Dandenong South site features cross-dock warehousing for operational efficiencies over two levels; new narrow aisle racking facilities allowing more efficient storage and improved inventory management; multi-level offices and boardroom areas. The Roll Solutions business, formerly known as Boomerang Paper, will also move in, putting all BJ Ball Victorian operations under one roof.

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