Mount Maunganui exporter Global Roofing Solutions is strengthening its key relationship with US-based Bradbury Group, one of the world's biggest steel roll forming companies.
Global Roofing is negotiating to create its own factory space with Bradbury in Kansas, which would allow the company to scale up its business-in-a-box turnkey roofing tile factory solutions more rapidly in its initial major target markets in North and South America, says managing director Lance Eagle.
"The key to our market entry is Bradbury, which has 50 agents worldwide and a team of 70 salesmen across North and South America and the Caribbean," Mr Eagle said.
"They have a very large manufacturing facility in the US. We're looking at doing the assembly of plants for our North and South American customers in the USA." That would also free up the New Zealand factory to help grow other markets.
The company, launched in late September 2011, formed the partnership with Bradbury last year. Later this month, the first of Global Roofing's turnkey factories will be formally opened in Jamaica.