WHAT WE DO
YOUR PRODUCT, OUR EXPERTISE
YOUR PRODUCT, OUR EXPERTISE
From concept to delivery, we provide flexible, end-to-end contract manufacturing solutions to help bring your product to market.
Choose our full-service offering or select the individual stages that best suit your business needs.
Research & Development
The best formulations are the result of precise laboratory work combined with exhaustive field testing. We offer a free NO OBLIGATION 1 hour consultancy. Come and talk to us or pick up the phone and speak with any of our trained staff. We have over 70 years of combined technical experience in house. Show us what you want to achieve with your new product and let us show you how we can help.
Talk to us about your next big idea, and let’s get our experienced team of experts onto it.
Custom Formulations
We have the ability to take a look at products that are already great, and make them even better! Give us a brief of want you need from your product and our industry leading in-house chemists can re-formulate it to meet those needs. Our own in-house lab and chemists start with the latest surfactant technology & research, and can build custom formulations from the ground up.
You don’t have a formula? No worries, we can reverse engineer your product and most likely make it even better. After that, the new formulated product is tested by you with the assistance of our technical team, ensuring the key features are hitting the mark.
Product Branding
We can help develop the branding, logo and label design of your products. You will receive your product packaged and ready to sell. We have a team of experienced designers and marketers to help you create and manage a successful program.
Let us look after all difficult compliancy issues so you can concentrate on what you do best. You can benefit from our years of experience, we can help you source packaging and labels at great rates to give you your unique product at a great price.
Let our team help create/develop your brand ‘from concept to your doorstep’.
Sustainable Manufacturing
At Chemical Solutions we believe in sustainable manufacturing. Our technical team have a huge range of sustainably sourced raw materials from which to formulate environmentally responsible products.
We can produce Eco Choice Aotearoa Licensed cleaning products for you using surfactants derived from coconut oil, glucose (Corn Syrup) and other sustainably sourced natural materials.
Raw Materials
Our environmental product emphasis has been a strong belief in making the safest product formulations possible, starting when our company founder began sustainable manufacturing by successfully using sugar-based raw materials in contract manufactured cleaning products.
A world first – right here in NZ!
We hand select raw materials that are safe for our staff and for customers. We look to use materials from sustainable sources and are in the final stages of replacing hazardous solvents with biodegradable materials with lower hazard profiles.
The Use of Palm Oil
There has been a lot of debate in recent times about the sources of various raw materials we and others use to make our products.
Surfactants, that play a critical part in most cleaning products are derived from a variety of sources. The traditional use of petrochemical-derived surfactants has come under fire in the last decade or so due to their
“non-sustainable” (non re-newable) status and has led to looking at “greener” or more sustainable options – those that can be generated from farm harvested sources. Read more…
Our Premises
We decided to renovate an existing office/warehouse/ manufacturing site close to Auckland, our biggest market, rather than a new ‘green-fields’ site on the outskirts of Auckland. This meant we’re closer to our end users with less distance for staff to travel.
The office was renovated with double glazing and energy efficient lighting to conserve power. Recessed windows reduce direct sunlight in summer to reduce cooling costs – take a tour of our factory.
Water Conservation
We have a rainwater catchment system used for the washing of mixing vats and to wash out containers to be re-used or recycled. With Auckland rainfall at 1240mm per year we estimate this to reduce our mains water supply usage by up to 40%.
Waste water is contained in a holding tank and treated prior to discharge to trade waste. Waste water is measured before discharge so we can compare year on year discharge against production output.
Energy Efficiency
We monitor our energy use and look at opportunities to reduce or gain maximum benefit via economies of scale in production.
We doubled the number of clear panels in the factory roofing along with automated sensor lighting to reduce the amount power used for lighting. Our mixing vats are designed for thorough and efficient mixing, saving time and energy.
Packaging: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Packaging is a huge component of our products. We encourage our customers to buy in larger container sizes to reduce the packaging to product ratio. We offer pricing incentives and quantity breaks to encourage customers to buy larger quantities to reduce the amount of fuel and packaging required to deliver the product.
We look to use packaging that can be re-used as well as recycled. Customers can send us empty containers for reuse. We have recycling systems in place for plastic, paper, metal and glass.
Environmentally Safe
Environmentally friendly or ‘green’ products are of particular interest to many customers today. We have responded to this need by producing our ‘Green range’ of products.
Production & Packaging
Our manufacturing plant, commissioned in July 2013, can produce 100,000 kgs per week in batch sizes from 200 litres to 5,000 litres. Product can be supplied in IBC loads down to 500ml bottles. We have access to an extensive range of packaging via our supplier network and can help you source the right packaging for your product.
NZ subscribes to GHS (the Globally Harmonised System)
for labelling and hazardous substances. In NZ the collective legislation is known as HSNO (Hazardous Substances and
New Organisms Act 1996).
We are dedicated to legislative compliance in all areas and in HSNO, in particular we are regarded as a leader in early adoption of, and extension of, the legislation. We regularly review to ensure all products and formulated, manufactured, packed, stored and delivered to the NZ compliance standards. We also comply with strict and audited employment standards and Ethical Policy Documents for which we sign off under the terms of International Supply Agreements with our key multi-national partners. Many NZ manufacturers and also imported product do not meet NZ HSNO standards. Under a recent labour policy review, the policing body for HSNO (WorkSafe NZ) outlined severe penalties for non-compliance. Penalties can include manufacturers, distributors and even the end user.
‘Every Drop Counts’, we catch, store and use about half of our water from a huge rainwater tank. And we have installed an active energy management program using LED lighting, and other energy saving methods. We use packaging that can be re-used or recycled and encourage our customers to buy in larger quantities, therefore reducing the amount of fuel and packaging required to deliver the product.
Marketing
From labeling and branding advice, to Product Information Sheets, Safety Data Sheets, Applicator bottle systems, dilution control systems, instructional wall charts, market advice, national training plans and promotional strategies, our extensive contract manufacturing knowledge and expertise, we have you covered.
Product Information Sheets
As a part of our extensive marketing support program we can supply you with custom designed information sheets outlining product use and directions, features and benefits so that your customers know exactly what your products are all about.
Safety Data Sheets
It is a HSNO requirement when cleaning chemicals are being used in a commercial situation, that a compliant Safety Data Sheet be available to users. Don’t worry, we will generate these for you.
Wall Charts
A great tool for you to supply to your customers. Wall charts are fully customised usage guides outlining products by application methods. We can produce these for you too.
Market Advice & Training
We have a wealth of knowledge within our ranks. From intricate knowledge and understanding of current markets to extensive technical knowledge of safety & awareness and the use of chemicals. Come and talk to us, we offer full training in all aspects of the cleaning chemicals industry.
Promotional Strategies
Promotions are a fantastic method of increasing brand/product awareness as well as increasing sales of established products.
We have over 20 years experience in bringing products to market and growing sales and are more than happy to assist you in developing a robust promotional strategy for your next big idea!
Storage & Distribution
Our new Freight Place facility has over 3500 metres of space
(3 times as big as our previous facility!) for safe and effective storage of a wide range of contract and branded product and pack sizes. We have a dedicated despatch team working tirelessly with production to ensure product is labelled and packed to specification.
Our new facility has a number of sustainability aspects – including sourcing approximately half of our water requirements from NZ clouds.
