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Force of habit

Tokoroa brothers QJ and Kayne Satchell were so convinced of the efficacy of vaping as a tool for breaking the hold cigarettes had on them, and too many other Kiwis, they set up an e-liquid manufacturing company, NZVAPOR, in regional Auckland. Both had been heavy smokers and quit through early exposure to vaping in 2011.

Today they employ a staff of ten in their recently opened facility on the edge of Silverdale, 30 minutes from Auckland’s CBD.

The purpose-built facility has an ISO grade 5 ranking, higher than that of a standard hospital theatre, and achieves air particle densities 30,000 times smaller than required.

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