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:

Permanent

2012
10 364

2011
10 475

2010
12 990

2009
13 390

2008
13 549

employees
Temporary

2 005

2 068

1 777

1 723

2 194

employees
Total

12 369

12 543

14 767

15 113

15 743

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
~~HDPE bottles (milk, juice)
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~~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)

10 166 (2011)

Operations
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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:
(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 Indstria

Qumica 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