NAMPAK LIMITED
Nampak Limited (Nampak) is one of the largest multi packaging manufacturers in
Africa. The company along with its subsidiaries is involved in manufacturing metal,
glass, paper and plastic packaging products. It also manufactures and markets a range
of tissue products. Nampak is one of the prominent suppliers of plastic bottles to the
dairy industry in the UK. The company serves various markets such as cosmetics,
toiletry, personal care, beverages, household, and pharmaceuticals. It mainly operates
through manufacturing plants located in over 20 countries across the Europe, South
Africa and African regions. Nampak is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa.
Number of Employees:
2012
Permanent
2011
2010
2009
2008
10 364
10 475
12 990
13 390
13 549
2 005
2 068
1 777
1 723
2 194
12 369
12 543
14 767
15 113
15 743
employees
Temporary
employees
Total
employees
Source: Nampak Annual Report 2012.
Group Profile
I. Metals and Glass
Bevcan, DivFood and Glass
Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Products
~~Tinplate beverage cans
~~Aluminium ends
~~Two and three-piece food cans
~~General line cans
~~Aluminium and tinplate aerosol cans
~~Aluminium and tinplate closures
~~Tinplate crowns
~~Glass bottles
~~Wide-mouth glass jars
Employees: 3 357 (2012) 3 267 (2011)1
Strong demand for beverage cans in South Africa
~~Angola beverage can operation running at full capacity
~~Invested in additional aluminium aerosol capacity
~~Glass business wholly owned and furnace 2 rebuilt
~~Introduced wide-mouth glass jars
II. Paper and Flexibles
Cartons and Labels, Corrugated, Flexibles and Sacks
Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Products
~~Corrugated boxes
~~Folding cartons
~~Labels
~~Multi-wall sacks
~~Plastic, paper and aluminium laminations
~~Pouches
~~Self-opening bags
Employees: 3 679 (2012) 3 601 (2011)2
~~Good performance from Rosslyn paper mill
~~ Weak consumer demand impacted Cartons and Flexibles businesses
~~Increased exports of cement sacks
~~Strong cigarette carton demand in Nigeria
III. Plastics
Liquid Packaging, Petpak, Closures, Megapak and Tubes
United Kingdom
Products
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Nampak Annual Report 2012.
~~HDPE bottles (milk, juice)
~~Closures
~~Liquid packaging cartons
~~Crates
~~Drums
~~PET bottles (carbonated soft drinks)
~~Tubes
Employees: 2 173 (2012) 2 245 (2011)3
~~ Lower sales of plastic bottles to the dairies in South Africa
~~Acquired remaining 50% shareholding in Elopak SA
~~Good demand for PET bottles
~~Outstanding sales of sorghum beer cartons
~~UK operation won dairy packaging innovation award
IV. Tissue
Tissue
Sancella (50%)
Nampak Recycling
Products
~~Toilet tissue
~~Disposable nappies
~~Facial tissue
~~Feminine hygiene products
~~Incontinence products
Employees: 1 029 (2012) 1 053 (2011)4
~~Marginal growth in toilet tissue sales
~~Increased disposable diaper sales
~~Fierce competition in all markets
Employees in total (Metal & Glass + Paper & Flexibles + Plastics + Tissue):
10 238 (2012)
2
3
10 166 (2011)
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Operations
Africa
South Africa
Metals & Glass
1. Nampak Bevcan
Products Manufactured: Beverage cans
Plants:
(i)
Johannesburg
(ii)
Cape Town
(iii)
Durban
2. Nampak DivFood
Products Manufactured: food cans
Plants :
(i)
Paarl
(ii)
Vanderbijlpark
(iii)
Durban
(iv)
Cape Town
3. Nampak Glass
Products Manufactured: glass bottles to the beverage and food industry
Plants :
(i)
Roodekop, Gauteng
4. Collect-a-Can
Shareholders: ArcelorMittal South Africa (60%, Africa's major steel producer and producer of
tinplate for steel cans) and Nampak (40%, Africa's largest packaging company and beverage can
manufacturer). Established in 1993.
The core business of the company is to facilitate the recovery of used beverage cans as well as
aerosol, aluminium, food, oil and paint cans, thereby addressing the “cradle-to-cradle” needs of the
metal can industry.
Collect-a-Can is a non-profit-driven company.
Plants:
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Nampak Annual Report 2012.
(i)
Vanderbijlpark
Detinning plant, which takes care of the conversion of the used metal cans into tin-oxide
and steel briquettes that are used as a separation alloy in cobalt mining processes.
Branches:
(i)
Kyalami (Head Office)
(ii)
Pretoria,
(iii)
Johannesburg
(iv)
Vanderbijlpark
(v)
Cape Town (Western Cape)
(vi)
KwaZulu Natal (urban)
Overseas operations:
(i)
Botswana (Gaborone)
(ii)
Namibia (Windhoek)
5. Nampak Closures
Products Manufactured: aluminium ROPP (Roll-on-Pilfer-Proof) closures, tinplate
twist-off and press-twist closures
Plants:
(i)
Johannesburg
(ii)
Durban
Paper & Flexibles
6. Nampak Cartons & Labels
Products Manufactured: folding cartons, carton board, cigarette wrapping
materials, litho laminated packaging
Plants:
(i)
Johannesburg
(ii)
Cape Town
7. Nampak Corrugated
Products Manufactured: corrugated packaging
Plants:
(i)
Cape Town
(ii)
Durban
(iii)
Johannesburg
(iv)
Swaziland
8. Nampak Sacks
Products Manufactured: Kraft-based sacks, high gloss sacks and bags, and selfopening bags
Plants:
(i)
Johannesburg
(ii)
Cape Town
(iii)
Durban
9. Nampak Liquid Cartons
Products Manufactured: Conipak® cartons
Plants:
(i)
Isithebe plant in KwaZulu Natal
Handles all manufacturing and converting of Conipak® cartons
Offices (customer services and marketing):
(i)
Industria, Johannesburg
(ii)
Westmead, Durban
10. Nampak Flexible
Products Manufactured: film, paper or foil laminations, multiple in-line
applications such as cold seal, heat seal, hot melt as well as high-gloss and matt
varnishes, reel stock for blue chip FMCG customers, bag-in-box for wine industry
Plants:
(i)
KwaZulu Natal
(ii)
Western Cape
(iii)
Port Elizabeth
(iv)
Nampak Origination Centre (NOC)
Situated near Pinetown plant, the Origination Centre services customers requirements
from concept and design through to printing process by utilizing the in house art studio,
digital orgination facilities, short run digital printing, digital proofing and gravure
cylinder manufacturing for absolute accuracy.
Plastics
11. Nampak Liquid
Products Manufactured: PET bottles, HDPE bottles, HDPE jars
Plants:
(i)
Eastern Cape
(ii)
Western Cape
(iii)
Gauteng
(iv)
KwaZulu Natal
12. Nampak Closures
Products Manufactured: plastic closures for bottles with neck diameters ranging
from 28mm to 45mm, plastic bottle caps and lids, plastic twist caps
Sales Offices:
(i)
Cape Town
(ii)
Durban
(iii)
Johannesburg
13. Nampak Megapak and Polycyclers
Products Manufactured: Plastic Drums, Crates
Plants:
(i)
Cape Town
(ii)
Durban
(iii)
Johannesburg
14. Nampak Petpak
Products Manufactured: injection-moulded preforms for carbonated and noncarbonated products, plastic bottles (four CSD bottling plants in Southern Africa)
Four customer-specific dedicated in-plants.
Commercial Plants:
(i)
Cape Town
(ii)
Johannesburg
15. Nampak Tubes
Products Manufactured:
Plants: tubes comprising of a five-layer lamination
(i)
Gauteng (manufacturing)
Tissue
16. Nampak Tissue
Products Manufactured: toilet paper, facial tissues, kitchen towels and other
household necessities, Sanitary Pads and Pantyliners, towels and wipes,
disposable diapers, incontinence products
Manufacturing Plants:
(i)
Johannesburg
(ii)
Pietermartizburg
17. Nampak Recycling
Products Manufactured: primary function is to procure recovered fibre for Group
Paper Mills situated in Bellville, Verulam, Kliprivier and Rosslyn.
Plants:
(i)
Johannesburg
(ii)
Pretoria
(iii)
Pinetown
(iv)
Pietermaritzburg
(v)
Port Elizabeth
(vi)
Cape Town
18. Sancella (50%)
Products
Manufactured:
In
partnership
with
the
Swedish SCA Hygiene
products, Sancella Tunisia manufactures and sells to the Maghreb and West Africa
wide range of hygiene products, diapers, sanitary napkins, incontinence diapers
and a wide range of household paper
Employees: 1 200
Plants:
(i)
Tunisia
(ii)
Algeria
Group Services
19. Research and Development
Tasks: Material screening, testing and selection, Product evaluation and packaging
interaction, Hygiene, integrity and product sterility testing, Optimising the use of
primary and secondary packaging, Development and improvement of packaging
and packaging components, Chemical analyses …
Laboratory:
(i)
Cape Town
20. Nampak Management Services
21. Nampak Pproperties
UNI Global Union Affiliates in South Africa (related to the sector of Graphical &
Packaging)
(i)
CEPPWAWU-ZA Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing Wood & Allied
Workers Union
(ii)
SACCAWU-ZA South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers'
Union
Botswana
Paper
Company: Nampak Corrugated
Products Manufactured: Corrugated Cartons
Plastics
Company : Nampak Liquid
Products Manufactured: HDPE bottles, PET bottles, PET preforms, Plastic closures
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Botswana:
Only in the sectors: Finance and Postal.
Kenya (Regional Hub in Africa)
Paper
Company: Bulpak Ltd (49%)
Products Manufactured: Paper Sacks - Self opening bags
Metals
Company: Nampak Kenya
Products Manufactured: Food cans, Drums, General line cans, Metal crowns and Drawn cans
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Kenya (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
KUPRIPUPA-KE
Kenya
Union
of
Printing,
Publishing,
Paper
Manufacturers and Allied Workers
Malawi
Paper
Company: Packaging Industries Malawi (PIM)
Products Manufactured: Corrugated cartons, Paper sacks, Liquid cartons, Toilet tissue
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Malawi (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
COWUMA-MW Communication Workers Union of Malawi
Nigeria (Regional Hub in Africa)
Paper
Company: Nampak Cartons
Products Manufactured: Folding cartons and Paper labels
Metals
Company: Nampak Nigeria Plc
Products Manufactured: Food cans, Aerosol cans, General line cans, Drawn ointment and containers
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Nigeria (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
NUPPPPROW-NG National Union of Printing, Publishing and Paper
Products Workers
(ii)
ASCSN-NG Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria
Swaziland
Paper
Company: Nampak Corrugated (90%)
Products Manufactured: Cartons and Trays
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Swaziland:
Only in sectors: Finance, Communication and Commerce.
Zambia
Paper
Company: Nampak Zambia (Plot 8214, Mungwi Road, Heavy Industrial Area, Lusaka)
Products Manufactured: Folding cartons, Paper labels, Conical cartons and Self-opening bags
Plastics
Company: Nampak Zambia (Plot 8214, Mungwi Road, Heavy Industrial Area, Lusaka)
Products Manufactured: HDPE bottles, Crates, Snap caps and closures
Metals
Company: Nampak Zambia (Plot 415, Kavu Road, Bwana Mkubwa Industrial Site, Ndola)
Products Manufactured: Metal cans, Drums and Metal crowns
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Zambia (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
ZAGRAWU-ZM Zambia Graphical and Allied Workers Union
Zimbabwe
Paper
Company: Hunyani (39%) (PO Box 4351, Harare, Zimbabwe)
Products Manufactured: Folding cartons, Corrugated cartons and Paper sacks
Metals
Company: Carnaudmetalbox (CMB) (P O Box ST 128 Harare Zimbabwe)
Products Manufactured: Metal cans, Closures, ROPP seals, HDPE bottles and Plastic closures
Plastics
Company: Mega Pak Zimbabwe (49%, founded in 1993, as a joint venture between Delta Corp of
Zimbabwe and Nampak Ltd South Africa)
Products Manufactured: Beverage crates, blow-moulded drums, bins, PET bottles, HDPE bottles,
Plastic closures, bulk liquid storage containers, household products
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Zimbabwe (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
ZGWU-ZW Zimbabwe Graphical Workers Union
Mocambique
Metals
Company: Crown Cork Company Lda (50%)
Products Manufactured: Metal crowns
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Mocambique (related to the sector of Graphical &
Packaging)
(i)
SINTIQUIFA-MZ Sindicato Nacional dos Trabalhadores da Indústria
Química e Affines
Tanzania
Metals
Company: Nampak Tanzania
Products Manufactured: Battery jackets, General line cans and Metal crowns
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Tanzania (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
TUICO-TZ Tanziana Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers
Angola (Regional Hub in Africa)
Metals
Company: Angolata(70%)
Products Manufactured: Beverage cans
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Angola:
Only in sectors: Finance and Beverages
Ethiopia
Metals
Company: Ethiopian Crown Cork (25%)
Products Manufactured: Metal crowns, cans
UNI Global Union Affiliates in Ethiopia (related to the sector of Graphical & Packaging)
(i)
FCTPI-ET Federation of Commerce, Technique and Printing Industry
Namibia
Plastics
Company: Nampak Petpak Namibia
Products Manufactured: bottles, closures, crates
There are no UNI Global Union Affiliates in Namibia.
Europe
Nampak currently operates from nine sites across the UK including six in-plant operations at
customers’ filling sites.
United Kingdom
1. Consett
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Consett, England
No. 1 Industrial Estate, Medomsley Road, Consett, Co. Durham, DH8 6SX, England
Overview:
Business Unit: Support plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
2. Bellshill
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Glasgow, Scotland
1 Belgowan Street , Bellshill , Glasgow , ML4 3NS
Overview:
Business Unit: In-plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
3. Pennybridge
Nampak Plastics Europe Ltd Ballymena, N Ireland
Pennybridge Industrial Estate, Ballymena, Co. Antrim , BT42 3HB
Overview:
Business Unit: In-plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
4. Trafford Park
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Manchester, England
Lake Road, Trafford Park, Manchester, M17 1TU
Overview:
Business Unit: In-plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
5. Newport Pagnell
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Newport Pagnell, England
Jenna Way, Interchange Park, Newport Pagnell, MK16 9QJ, England
Overview:
Business Unit: Support plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
6. Severnside
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Severnside, England
Dairy Crest Site, Oldends Lane, Stonehouse, GL10 2DG, England
Overview:
Business Unit: In-plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
7. Oakthorpe
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Oakthorpe, England
Oakthorpe Dairy, Owen Road, Palmers Green, London, N13 6BU, England
Overview:
Business Unit: In-plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
8. Chadwell Heath
Nampak Plastics Europe Limited Chadwell Heath, England
c/o Dairy Crest, Selinas Lane, Chadwell Heath, RM8 1QH, England
Overview:
Business Unit: In-plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
9. Foston
EPS (Foston) Ltd, Derbyshire, England
4000 Park Avenue, Dove Valley Industrial Park, Derbyshire, DE65 5BZ
Overview:
Business: Support plant
Products: HDPE containers
Markets served: Dairy and Juice
UNI Global Union Affiliates in the UK (related to the sector of Graphical &
Packaging)
(i)
UNITE THE UNION-UK Unite the Union