Sales manager Steve Graham said Jacpak had persuaded the Melbourne-based pet care firm to bring its folding carton production back to Australia.

"We continually worked with them on innovation and efficiency, so we could get their costs down. We stayed close, I was hopeful this would happen, and it has."

Graham would not reveal specifics about clients, but indicated some of Jacpak's recent successes.

He said Jacpak had also won an account in late 2012 from a national food manufacturing client to produce the packaging for two of its frozen goods lines.

[YouTube: Behind the scenes of Jacpak]

It followed another success earlier in the year when Jacpak landed a folding carton account for a Melbourne-based hot beverage provider, he added.

Graham said the business owed its growth to an increased focus on marketing, the success of its four-person sales team and personalised service.

Jacpak derives about 75% of its revenue from FMCG work, with the rest coming from pet food, confectionery, cosmetics and healthcare, he said.

Graham said the 30-person operation would get new short-run finishing equipment in the first three months of 2013.

Jacpak already has Bobst diecutting, gluing and windowfacing machines. It also has a pair of Heidelberg Speedmasters: a 10-colour SM 102 and a CD 102 with double coater and interdeck, said Graham.

The business was founded in 2000 after Ego decided to diversify into packaging. It operates out of Ego's Mt Waverley factory.

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