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PROFILE | PKN 60 YEARS SPECIAL
Jet Technologies
TOP: L-R Jack Malki, Albert Malki, and Daniel Malki
ABOVE: L-R Albert Malki, Jack Malki (Albert’s father), and Elliot Malki (Albert’s older brother).
Jet Technologies this year celebrates 40 years of service, innovation, and expertise in the Australian and global industrial printing and packaging industries. As a renowned local
family-owned and operated business, and a lead- ing specialist importer and distributor of printing and packaging products, Jet Technologies began when Albert Malki and his family made their journey from Italy to Australia back in 1980.
When Albert and his family immigrated to Australia, hardly able to speak English, the land- scape was vastly different, with difficulties faced in assimilating into the Australian culture. With this very obstacle in mind, Albert decided to start a company called Jet Overseas Trade to facilitate trade of a varied range of products between Australia and Europe. One area of particular suc- cess was the supply of plastic resins into the
bottle blow-moulding, pipe extrusion and con- tainer injection-moulding industries, alongside Enichem. Additional industrial products were added over the years including surfactants and aluminium. By the late 1980s, Amcor requested the assistance of Jet Overseas Trade in working with the Cerutti group, an Italian manufacturer of gravure printing presses, and from there grew the print division of the company.
Working originally from offices in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, the team quickly expanded, and in 2001 moved to a larger location in Alexandria and became Jet Technologies. With further growth, including the addition of new team members in South Australia, Victoria and New Zealand, Jet Technologies moved to larger locations with warehouses in Mascot and then its current headquarters in Rosebery. The Rosebery site features a state-of-the-art demo centre and a purpose-built ink manage- ment facility. Jet Technologies now also has a state of the art office-warehouse in Melbourne.
Today, the company has grown and diversi- fied into the divisions of industrial, packaging, and printing – now employing over 70 staff and operating from locations across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Singapore, alongside a range of leading supplier partners including Screen GP, Kocher + Beck, ESKO, Flexo Wash, Pulse Roll Label Products, Crown, Goglio, ILPRA, Vinventions and LG.
“We pride ourselves on our strong family- based values, which we translate to our staff and our culture; investing in our staff to build long-lasting relationships with our customers, and striving to deliver genuine and expert ser- vice always,” Albert Malki, managing director at Jet Technologies, said.
Albert continues to lead Jet Technologies and is supported by the second generation of the family business, with director Jack Malki and general manager Daniel Malki. They say that the company’s core focus on family, expertise, partnership, reliability, and trust has really been the key for its success, alongside the company’s collective and constant push to find and materialise the latest industry innova- tions to offer its customers.
Jet Technologies is proud to be celebrating its 40th anniversary as a leader in the industry, and to be showcasing the hard work of its indus- try expert staff who continue to deliver their cus- tomers in Australia and globally, the knowledge and practical knowhow to provide premium qual- ity products and outstanding service.
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