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Cramlington printing plate specialists eye Dubai market

A firm of printing plate manufactuers and labelling specialists based in Cramlington have successfully established a partnership and initial customers in Dubai.

Cramlington-based Reproflex 3 Ltd supply to a number if high-profile global manufacturers who need high quality packaging.

The firm recently commissioned UKTI to provide an Overseas Market Introduction Services (OMIS) report into the Middle East, and in particular Dubai.

As a result Reproflex has now landed a number of core customers in the emirate, and is looking to open a permanent presence there next year.

Andrew Hewitson, joint managing director at Reproflex 3 Ltd, explained: “We started out with Passport to look at a potential venture in India and have now developed a lot of consultancy work over there. This encouraged us to look at other opportunities as they developed and we soon realised there was a lot of potential for us in the Middle East.

“The OMIS report we commissioned for Dubai gave us a great starting point and we had a lot of positive feedback from it, confirming that there was plenty of potential there and that we were heading in the right direction.”

Ron Ingram, one of UK Trade & Investment’s international trade advisers who has been working with the company, said: “Reproflex 3 Ltd operates in what is a highly-specialised but very competitive field. And yet the company has proved it has what it takes to compete in the global race.

“I hope its success will inspire others to take up the export challenge. UKTI is committed to offering its support to enable them to achieve their ambitions - we offer a wide range of support and our Exporting is GREAT campaign aims to encourage companies to contact UKTI to find out more about exporting.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .