| Propak Expo The 20th to 23rd October saw the new Consumer Flexible Division of Afripack strutting its stuff at the Propak '09 expo. |
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| Propak Release Afripack introduces their new flexible packaging division. |
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Three words sum up Afripack's 'Sisonke' culture: together, empowerment and performance. Sisonke is an isiZulu word literally meaning “We are in this together”. All Afripack employees – top to bottom - assume the responsibility for resolving problems or bottlenecks and continuous improvement in quality, customer service and cost reduction. The task of ensuring sustainable profitable growth belongs to us all in partnership: we call it a prosperity partnership. It is a culture in which people at all levels get the responsibility, authority and accountability to get on with the job of creating sustainable value for all the stakeholders. It is a culture that is customer focused. It is a culture that is output and performance based. Ensuring ongoing customer satisfaction is up to us. All of us.
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Founded in 1933 as Paper Sacks (SA), Afripack went through a number of name changes until in 1995 the company, as it is now known, was formed. The period since 1995 has seen a significant investment in plant and equipment as well as a successful BEE transaction. The latter was concluded during 2004 and the current shareholding is as follows: Nozala (a broad based Black female group) 50%; PPC (SA’s largest cement company) 25% and a Management Consortium 25%. Afripack is classified as a Black owned enterprise with a dominant female share-holding and has a level 3 BBBEE certification.
Today, Afripack – with the most modern plant infrastructure of its kind in South Africa- is widely regarded as the industry leader in the South African paper sack market. To this end Afripack has long term exclusive supply agreements with several blue chip companies in the construction, chemical and food industries.
This historically solid foundation in the industrial markets led to the expansion, during 2004, into industrial flexibles with the supply of mostly paper based flexographic printed product to the Paper and other industries. Together this range of Industrial flexible products makes up Afripack Industrial Flexibles (AIF). During 2009 Afripack expanded its flexible packaging focus into Consumer flexible products with the acquisition of several companies that comprised the Astrapak Flexible Division. With production facilities in Durban, Paarl, Johannesburg and Mauritius a wide variety of blue chip FMCG customers are supplied with wide and narrow web flexible packaging products. An in-house repro facility offering specialised desktop publishing and high-tech reproduction services further complements the service. Together these companies and products make up Afripack Consumer Flexibles (ACF).
Afripack is focused on supplying high quality flexible packaging products to the Southern African and related markets. Our mission is to add sustainable value to all our stakeholders (customers, shareholders and employees) by providing superior flexible packaging solutions that are Fast, Focused and Flexible.
