The massive corrugated iron bulk store in Grey Street is being dismantled with building recyclers slowly disassembling the old building, which includes huge native timber beams.
The ground where the old store stood will be turned into a landscaped driveway and car parking area. Work is expected to be completed by the end of July, and Logan Print managing director John Logan says it will have a positive visual impact on the whole street — most importantly given the company’s close proximity to Gisborne’s Visitor Information Centre.
Mr Logan says the demolition of the older store has also given back the long-hidden view of the sea from the company’s administration building which has already been upgraded.
A new building for the printing presses was constructed behind the old wool store and work is underway on the large, reinforced concrete slab in the factory to support the new press which is 15 metres long and weighs in at 37-tonnes.
The new press is being shipped to Auckland in three containers and will be delivered to Logan Print’s Gisborne premises in numerous truckloads.
Mr Logan established Logan Print in 1967 from a lead provided by the business his father established publishing Gisborne’s Photo News.
It remains very much a family operation, with Mr Logan’s own son Matt now having joined the company.
The business has come a long way since its early beginnings in a small building in Derby Street.
Exclusively label printers, the business now supplies labels used by DB Breweries and on Heinz Watties’ export lines.
It is responsible for dressing the packaging of just about all of New Zealand’s ice cream punnets.
